Saturday, July 30, 2011

My First Bountiful Basket!

(k, just FYI, I am getting frustrated with Blogger! It's spacing out my stuff, and not letting me center things... and signing me out and in and out and in.... GGRRRRR! so sorry about the annoying formatting, but I can't fix it...)





I was so excited today to go pick up my first bountiful basket! The kids were too- it's all a suprise what you will get! So much fun!






In our basket, we received:





2 cucumbers





1 eggplant





3 heads broccoli





1 bunch kale





10 baby bok choy





7 peaches





3 fuji apples





1 pineapple





5 oranges





5 bananas





2 mangos






Here's how this works: It's a produce co-op, where the money is pooled to get better deals. You sign up, and then each week you choose if you'd like to participate or not. Each week is $15, plus $1.50 handling fee (plus a one-time starter fee of $3), and you are supposed to receive approximately $50 worth of produce.






A friend from church shared this with us. I had read about Bountiful Baskets around the blogosphere, but knew that it wasn't available in our area... until now!!! Check out their website (http://bountifulbaskets.org) for more information. I love that I don't have to do it every week; I can pick and choose when we want more produce. Plus this will be a stretcher for me- I've never eaten eggplant OR bok choy! FUN FUN FUN! :-)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

good for you, the kids will probably love it, haha. I've never eaten it & what can I say----Good for you. gma debbie

BrenV said...

I can't even sign in any more on blogger. It always says I'm signed out, but when I go to do my next posting, it just lets me do a post. I haven't had a problem with centering things, but I do go back and edit my blog over and over to get rid of the spacing problem. I can backspace one space, then I post it, then edit again and back space one space, then post it, over and over, until I get it the way I want it. I don't know why it's that way now, but it's the only way I've found to get rid of all those big gaps in your posts. Actually I just realized that's wrong! I can backspace more than once under a picture or what I wrote, but I can only do one section at a time. I hope that's clear and doesn't confuse you more!