Bountiful Baskets: February 9

We had an awesome Bountiful Baskets day today.  It helped that I had three sons with me to volunteer, which meant a hefty portion of volunteer extras.  But I don't count those in what I list below!

Here is a photo of one basket:

William did the arranging today

I contributed for two baskets though, so my total between them, roughly, was:

• 3 heads of cabbage
• 2 bunches of spinach
• 3 enormous yams
• 3 spaghetti squash
• 2 heads cauliflower
• 2 boxes of grape tomatoes
• 19 bananas
• 2 3-lb bags of Braeburn apples
• 11 comice pears
• 25 tangerine-like things

I also split a box of roma tomatoes and a box of cara cara oranges with a friend.

I priced out my baskets at Safeway by adding up the two baskets and dividing by two... so 1.5 heads of cabbage, for instance.  Grand total:  $36.28.  I contributed $15 per basket, and it would have cost me another $21.28 to get the same stuff at Safeway.  Well, almost the same stuff.  I used the price of tangerines instead of whatever these things actually are.

What are we going to do with it all?  I.  Have.  No.  Idea.

• The fruit will just be eaten.
• Cauliflower will be used in an alfredo dish.
• cabbage?  not sure yet.  I'm still trying to figure out something we really love.
• spaghetti squash?  we'll experiment a bit there too.  
• Grape tomatoes will probably be eaten on salads and the like
• Yams will probably become at least a couple meals worth of veggie side dish
• Spinach -- I love spinach in scrambled eggs

I love Bountiful Baskets.