Saturday, March 6, 2010

Produce Palooza

One of the nurses at work told me about this local co-op called Bountiful Baskets. For $15 you can get a produce basket full of grocery store/restaurant quality produce. I’m not talking a puny basket here….there was one small laundry basket of veges and one of fruit. There is a $3 sign up fee, but after that, it’s just $15 each time you order. You don’t have to order every week (some places it’s only available every other week), you can order however many times you want. I ordered this week for the first time, it took me a bit to understand it, but I figured it out eventually. Every time you order you make a $15 “contribution” and you’re good to go. Take a look at what we received:

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Here’s the breakdown:

1 basketball sized head of leaf lettuce (gigantic)

1 large cabbage

2 bundles of spinach

2 bundles of asparagus

6 small cucumbers

6 small zucchini

5 concorde pears

1 box strawberries

2 boxes blueberries

16 tangelos

9 small braeburn apples

9 bananas

How’d we make out? I was so excited to see what we received! I would recommend this to anyone. If you are local and want to see it in action before you sign up, feel free to contact me and I will let you go with me next time. They also offer things like tortillas and bread and they had a special Mexican food basket you could purchase. I didn't buy anthing extra because it was my first time ordering, but when I saw the tortillas, I regretted that decision. There are locations all over Utah as well as Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Washington. We are so excited!!!

4 comments:

sunnie said...

I keep seeing Bountiful Baskets around and have toyed around with doing it. After this post I really think I want to do this with you. Fill me in.

Baker Family said...

Did you pick up at Tuachan too? I just bought this past weekend and am loving everything! Funny I am going to do a post about it too because I want to spread the word about how great it is! I bought the bread, tortillas, and Mexican package too and it is all soooo yummt! YAY!! LOVE IT!!

The Clark Clan! said...

I love Bountiful Baskets. The bread they have here is so good. They deliver at a park right at the Y by your mom's house. The produce usually lasts me 2 weeks. Love it!
Only 2 days til craft day!!!!!!!
So exciting!

jennschmerer said...

I'm so glad you posted this! I had checked Bountiful Baskets out months ago, but they didn't have a SLC pickup location at the time. It looks like they've added Herriman and South Jordan pickups since I checked. Unfortunately, they only deliver every other week- so I'm going to have to wait another week before we can try it out! It looks great though!!!