So I originally posted a blog about Bountiful Baskets shortly after getting our own in December. For those of you who don't know what in the world I'm talking about go to Raising The Ruth's Blog for an easy how to. And Bountiful Baskets to order. :)
My husband and I were both unemployed, him for 9 months, and me since I became a stay at home mom in summer of '08 until I became an indie author. It was because of this trying time that I made a goal of feeding our family of 3 for $250 a month... its very trying, it requires a lot of focus, and in truth as close as we've come a few times we've not hit it yet this year! But one of the best steps we have taken has been with Bountiful Baskets.
A Bountiful Basket is roughly 30 lbs of fresh produce for $16.50 (a little more for your first basket), and they're available through a large portion of the country. The catch is that you don't know beforehand what fruits and veggies you get. But the one basket tends to last us for two full weeks, meaning we spend $8.25 on 15 lbs of healthy fruits and veggies a week for three of us. At least half of what we were paying before.
I have been impressed with their quality, the flavor of their veggies is great, and the variety is fun too, every once in a while we'll get something we don't like (or don't know we like!) but we have discovered we enjoy a few more mellons than we've ever tried, and I even like brussel sprouts! For those things we don't love we either gift them to my mother-in-law (who is a huge fresh veggie eater) or we trade or toss them (I hate wasting food, but it isn't much)
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