Bountiful Baskets the Food Co-Op

So, my sister Jen has told me about these food co-op for awhile called Bountiful Baskets. I looked and the closest one to me was about 20 miles away. So I hesitated and hesitated. Then, we got in this situation where I don't have a job and am limited on my job options so I decided to give it a look again and found a site that was only about 3 to 4 miles away from our house. So I decided okay well, we can try it this first time and see how it goes. Lets just say, WOW! If you have a food co-op close to your house do it. Basically I got online and signed up. I then just added things to my shopping cart which was a basket of fruits and vegetables. We decided to get some bread as well. As a first time person the fruits and vegetables were $17 and the bread was $2. The bread was artisan bread, it was a rye bread that we picked. So, we ordered and then on Saturday morning of the 16Th we took our own basket and headed off to get our produce basket. We needed to pick up the food around 8:15am. We went to a park and I saw these rows of baskets with food. I saw a line of people with empty baskets. I saw others by the rows of food baskets filling their baskets and walking away with these full baskets that was looking like a lot of food. So I was starting to kind of get excited. Now the catch, is just that you don't really know what kinds of fruits and vegetables they will have from week to week. So we got in line and heard the chitter chatter of woman who have done this food co-op more than once. So it came our turn and we were sent to one of the rows and the guy asked how many baskets we had and we told him that we got one basket. He then said that the 2 round laundry baskets of food were ours. So we filled our bucket up. we got 2 lettuce leaf packs, 5 peaches, 7 tomatoes, 8 sweet potato's, 2 lbs of green beans, 10-13 carrot sticks, a cantaloupe, 6 bananas, a carton of strawberries, and our artisan bread. We have already had about 3 or 4 meals using the fruits or vegetables and the food isn't even half gone yet. It was a great, great buy. I just ordered our next bunch and its only $15 this time. You pick up the baskets every other Saturday, so we will skip this Saturday to pick up and wait till the following Saturday. This time though we are going to be getting Alpine Bread, white sandwich bread and honey wheat bread, along with our produce basket. Yummy! I can't wait. (This picture is not of our food. I had put our food away and then thought of taking a picture and I have not had the energy to pull all the food out to lay it out to take a picture. So I found this one online from someone who took this picture after getting there food from bountiful baskets. So it would be something similar, but just different veggies and fruits. But the idea of how much there is for the great price.)

For Arizonians you can go to: www.bountifulbaskets.org its on the west and the east side. Enjoy! :)