Bountiful Baskets: February 23

Today was a rather frustrating Bountiful Baskets day.  We had committed to volunteering at the church food pantry from 12:00-2:00.  Theoretically, that shouldn't be a problem, as our Basket pickup is at 11:00.  But the truck has been on time once EVER on a B week, so I don't know why I thought it might be different this week.

They had tortillas though.  So I had to contribute for a basket.  And of course, the truck ended up 2.5 hours late (12:30), smack dab in the middle of when I couldn't be there.  Dale had to be at work today for some dumb reason... of course.  Fortunately, I did have a wonderful person volunteer to pick my basket up for me, so we cruised over and got it after the food pantry.  Thanks, Kat!

I only got one basket this week, so it was really easy to figure out what was what when I got home.  This week, we got:

• 2 eggplants
• 1.5 pounds of broccoli
• 8 rainbow carrots (a bit over 2 pounds)
• 1 bunch red leaf lettuce (yay!  leaf lettuce again!)
• a 5-lb bag of potatoes
• plus another bag of potatoes, roughly 2 pounds worth
• 1 pineapple
• 10 bananas, pretty much ready to be eaten now
• 4 grapefruit
• 11 mercots (tangerine-like things anyway, not positive what kind)
• 4 fuji apples

So how will this be used?

• Eggplants are going into a lasagne casserole-y thing tomorrow.  For my birthday.
• We'll do some broccoli with lunches this week.
• Broccoli and carrots will go onto the veggie tray we need to put together for the Mother-Daughter Tea next weekend.
• Lettuce and potatoes just get used.  No planning necessary.
• Grapefruit is going to be my breakfast this week.
• The rest of the fruit just gets eaten, no planning necessary.

I'm thinking I'll take some photos tomorrow and actually <gasp> post a recipe.