After being out of town for 2 1/2 weeks for the holidays and not participating in Bountiful Baskets or Sunizona’s FarmBox, my house had no produce! Well, I take that back, I think my husband had gotten some bananas just before the kids and I got back. So, I was very excited to get my FarmBox last Wednesday and then Bountiful Baskets this past weekend.
The FarmBox program has a few new items, citrus from Arizona Organic Family Farms, a raisin walnut bread, and hoagie buns. First, I tried the raisin walnut bread, it’s really great! I’m going to try some oranges this week and I’m looking forward to it. Here is how my box looked last week:
I picked a cucumber, micro cilantro, red potatoes #2 (non-perfect potatoes), raisin walnut bread, special spelt bread, radishes, green beans, and pink lady apples. All delicious! We really, really love the bread.
It was a good haul at Bountiful Baskets this week. I got the conventional basket and the new juicing pack. I have a juicer, but honestly, I got the pack more for the extra produce offered in it, it’s all things we love to eat.
Here is the conventional basket:
Red potatoes, cucumbers, rainbow carrots, avocados, grape tomatoes, sweet peppers, strawberries, oranges, lemons, red delicious apples, golden delicious apples, and Asian apple pears. I’ve already used the lemons to marinate chicken and potatoes for mashed potatoes. We’ve been snacking on the peppers, cucumbers, carrots, and apples. I also made guacamole with the avocados.
This is the new juicing pack. Great mix of fruits and vegetables, celery, kale, baby spinach, carrots, beets, cucumber, limes, ginger, fuji apples, and a lemon. I may juice some of this, but more likely we’ll just eat it.
Finally, I didn’t contribute for these, but snapped a picture of the 12 lb jar of honey and the 1/2 gallon of coconut oil, just to show what they look like.
Note: The type and amount of food may vary from another basket because of geographic location and because of variances in how case ends are distributed once everything is distributed evenly. I also volunteered and got an extra item for volunteering.
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