one more reason why i love our new little apartment oh so much: there is a bountiful baskets location a mile down the road, with a lovely pickup time of 8 o’clock.
this week’s basket includes ($15):
2 celery bunches
1 bunch red grapes
1 cantaloupe
1 coconut
1 – 2 lbs green beans
2 heads broccoli
4 tomatoes
9 gala apples
8 apricots
and because a nice woman didn’t want her bananas or red potatoes:
30 bananas (thirty!)
25 red potatoes
i also went ahead and ordered a bread basket and a mexican bag. both were worth well more than the price.
bread basket ($10):
5 loaves 9-grain bread
mexican bag ($7.50):
8 green chiles
4 jalapeno
4 avocado
6 limes
2 onions
1 bunch cilantro
14 tomatillos
2 bulbs garlic
1 bunch scallion
all of this produce and bread for a grand total of….. $32.50. let’s call it $16.25 spent per week on produce and bread. let’s also call it a super deal.
i’ve frozen 4 loaves of the bread and i plan on freezing nearly all of the bananas once they ripen. i am not sure what i will do with the coconut, but it’ll be interesting, to say the least. i also have a large bag of lemons and a similarly large bag of grapefruit from my grandparent’s trees that will most likely be made into some sort of juice (that is, after i freeze plenty of the lemon juice).
