text: My Two Cents Worth: Fresh Produce! It's been a while since I contributed to Bountiful Baskets.
  Fresh Produce! It's been a while since I contributed to Bountiful Baskets.
  I haven't written a post about Bountiful Baskets for about 6 months. I got busy & then I got behind & then I couldn't get caught up again. In November I got busy with the holiday season & stopped getting produce from them altogether. When I was grocery shopping a couple of weeks ago, I realized that I needed to get my act together because the fruits & veggies that I get from Bountiful Baskets are so much fresher than what I find in the grocery store plus it's a great deal. So I made my contribution & last Saturday I picked up a regular basket plus an Italian Pack add-on.
  Look at all of the goodness that I got in my regular basket! The price is $15 & it's usually half fruits & half veggies. The fun part is that you don't know what is in the basket until you pick it up!
  2 green leaf lettuce, 1 pound spinach, 3 broccoli, 6 yellow squash,
  1 pound brussel sprouts, eggplant, 3 pounds gold potatoes, 2 tomatoes,
  21 small apples, 8 large apples, 2 oranges, 2 grapefruit.
  And this is what came in the Italian Pack! I paid an additional $12 for these extras.
  2 zucchini, eggplant, yellow onion, 6 Roma tomatoes,
  garlic clove, 6 ounces Portabella Mushroom Caps,
  fennel, rosemary, basil, parsley & oregano.
  So I got all of this for only $30.50 (which includes $3.50 which is added to each order to contribute to the fuel cost for the trucks).
  Bountiful Baskets is a grassroots, all-volunteer, no contract, no catch co-operative. They distribute produce baskets, organic produce baskets, Artisan bread & sandwich bread. I've gotten so many wonderful foods since I start contributing. I've tried fruits & veggies that I've never heard of before & would never have eaten if they hadn't been included in my produce basket.
  I volunteer at my site almost every time I pick up my basket. Volunteers are what keeps this operation running & it's really a lot of fun.