Bountiful Baskets

Some of you may already know about this fabulous co op. Bountiful Baskets. You order your food Tuesday or Wednesday on line and pay for it. There is a 3 dollar first time user fee. The price of each basket is 15 dollars. 20 dollars for organic. You can add on too. I added on the Italian products for an additional 7 dollars. They also offer bread.

Pick up locations are all over the place, see for yourself on the web site. I drove 10 minutes to get to our location. Pick up times are every Saturday. You don't have to do this every week.

This was our first week and I am just in shock at how much food we received. We definitely won't need to do this weekly. Some of it I'm going to freeze too. I have a bag set aside to share with a friend.

I wouldn't have known about this if I hadn't have been talking about the Angel Food boxes. It prompted a discussion with a good friend about Bountiful Baskets. She warned me that there is enough food to feed a few households and I didn't quite believe her.

My total price: 25 dollars. Wow.

I am allergic to a lot of fruits and vegetables. My basket initially contained avocados. I loved them once but am severely allergic now. I had 3 in my basket that I was able to exchange. I picked out 2 more ears of corn and an apple instead. Someone else who maybe had an allergy or a dislike of spinach, say, would be able to exchange it for my avocado. It's a win win.

Pick up took all of 15 minutes. It was like grocery shopping with out any of the work.

I hope you'll try it and tell me what you think. If you try the Angel Food, I want to hear about how you liked that too.