Bountiful Baskets June 16, 2018
What a wonderful day to spend a couple of hours at the park volunteering at our Bountiful Baskets produce co op. The sun was shining, we had a nice breeze and thankfully our Las Vegas summertime temperatures were kind to us. We were lucky enough to have a temperature in the upper 70’s when we first arrived at the park.+
As usual we were blessed with an abundance of amazing items. Keep in mind that the pictures that I share are for one share of produce. A share consists of one basket of fruit and one basket of vegetables. For my family I typically purchase 2 baskets. My family goes through alot of produce each day. My husband has had some health concerns this past year and as a result we eat mainly fresh produce and lean meats. So when you look at the pictures imagine the items doubled.
I had to laugh when I was taking out my vegetables from our bags and putting them on the table. I didn’t realize that all of our vegetables this week were green! We received romaine lettuce, kale, asparagus, corn on the cob, & cilantro. My daughter was hoping to get the asparagus, she makes a great shrimp, asparagus and carrot stir fry with a lemony sauce. The corn I will cook up for dinner today for Father’s day along with some T-Bone steaks I picked up on sale this morning, potatoes from last week’s baskets and a cesaer salad. I have to figure out what to do with the kale. I love kale but my son doesn’t love it so much so find that I have to hide it in soups or something so that he doesn’t really realize it is in there. I can chop it up really fine and add it to fried rice too and he will eat it that way also. Cilantro, I didn’t always love this herb. A couple of years ago my taste buds changed and now I really love it. I will probably use some of it in a pico de gallo for my husband’s lunches. I will also make some cilantro lime rice with it and some taco’s and I can also serve the pico de gallo with the as well.
We received quite alot of fruit this week. I love summer because that means that our fruit basket over flows with goodness. This week we received ambrosia apples oranges, roma tomatos, bananas, mangos, strawberries and a boat load of limes. The limes will be used in the pico de gallo and cilantro lime rice I mentioned above. I am going to use some of the berries to make strawberry shortcakes for Father’s Day dessert. The bananas, apples and oranges will be eaten with lunches, sliced for dinner, used in fruit salads and for snacking.
Each week when we place our produce basket order we have the opportunity to add on special items like cases of fruit like strawberries, pineapple,apples, etc. Or we can add a special pack to our order. The special packs are usually a themed pack and usually they are amazing. This past week our choices for add on packs were a juice pack that normally consists of items for juicing like green apples, ginger, oranges, cucumber, beets, pineapple, etc. There was also a fajita pack that contained all the veggies needed for fajitas. There was also a mystery pack that was going to be a complete surprise. It was supposed to contain 20 lbs of produce and that was the pack that my daughter and I decided we wanted to try. We were so excited to get the box home and open it up. We safed the surprise for when we got home. Once we opened it up we were a bit dissappointed. The pack was what Bountiful Baskets calls a lunch box pack. It contained items that would be good to add in a lunch box. It contained grape tomatoes, apples, oranges, grapes, baby carrots, small sweet peppers and more bananas. I was really hoping for something new and different. We will use the produce but I really hoped for something different than more apples, oranges and bananas.
Another great produce week. If you are considering trying Bountiful Baskets, what are you waiting for. A share of fruit and vegetables is $18.00. Check them out here.
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