I FOUND SOME PICTURES AT...

If anyone read my previous post... I was bummed, because I couldn't show the pictures from my Relief Society blog of the different items and amounts of fruits and vegetables in the "baskets", but I found a fan page on facebook! Which they have pictures of different amounts of fruits and vegetables you get... this is just as good! Take a look I became a fan, so I have the page located in my Info under Pages or it's Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op on facebook! TAKE A LOOK!

SO EXCITED TO TRY THIS...

Our Relief Society has finally made a blog and I went to check it out today and there was a post about Bountiful Baskets... and what a great deal it is! You pay $15 and get a basket of enormous amounts of fruits and vegetables... 50% fruits, 50% vegetables!!! You can choose to do this weekly or every other week... or just when you need it. I found out from our RS blog that you add things to your basket on Mondays at 12:00 P.M. and have until Tuesday at 10 P.M. and pick up is on Saturday! I was so excited to check bountifulbaskets.org out... I sat and called my Dad, Aunt and Mom to tell them all about it while I waited until it was available online! I guess I thought it was a race or something :)!

Here's a little info. from my RS blog which is private... so I hope it's OK that I copied and pasted some great information that made me understand how great of a deal this is! It's too bad I couldn't copy the pictures on the RS blog, because they showed what different items they had received in "baskets" from two different weeks for $15 and some other add ons that you can add on additionally:

The rest of this post is not in my own words it's from my RS blog (Thanks to Kristy who wrote this):
Bountiful Baskets It is a food co-op that allows you to buy high quality produce and other items at prices reserved for restaurants and grocery stores. This is SO much more than you could ever buy at the grocery store for that price. It is also really high quality, very fresh! It's also great because they always give you something a little exotic so your forced to try something you might otherwise not. We've had mangos, jimacas, pummelos, asian pears, cara cara oranges and the list goes on. You never know what you are going to get, but I'll tell you what...we eat a whole lot more fresh produce now and I hardly EVER buy fresh fruits and veggies from the grocery store anymore. BB also offers great bread add ons every week. And it is really good bread. I'm talking 100% Whole Wheat or 9 grain sandwhich bread, Olive Oil loaves, Rye Bread...good stuff!

I think it is SUCH a valuable asset to our community. Cedar City started with one drop site, every other week, in October 2009 and 14 orders. There are currently four sites in the Cedar/Enoch area accommodating I think 100 people each. At least one of them is now open every week. We are hoping to start another site in our neighborhood in the next week or two.

Cedar City has an email group to share recipes for the ingredients we get each week. That is great, but if you like the recipe, you have to save the email or print it out. So I considered starting a new BB food blog, but my hubby suggested I just tweak my recipe blog to fit! So I made a few changes to that blog and voila! It works great! Go to allthatanddinnertoo.blogspot.com to check it out. I went through all the recipes and instead of labeling them as simply containing "veggies" I have labeled specific produce items. So if you get the mexican pack or the italian ingredient pack with your basket, you'll be able to look up items containing specific ingredients. I'm hoping to recruit more contributors (any takers?) to the blog this way as well and get some more healthier recipes there. (There ARE healthy recipes on there, but hopefully this will increase the supply). Plus I'm hoping this will be helpful as it gets closer to gardening season, so if you have zucchini coming out your ears, maybe you can find some ideas there.