Wednesday, March 5, 2014

VEGETABLE ROULETTE


VEGETABLE ROULETTE

I’ve recently discovered Bountiful Baskets. I love the surprise of it; the going, picking up, and taking home. Things my family wouldn’t let me put into a grocery cart now show up on the kitchen table. Conversations, with the man who would check the top of my grocery bag for greens saying: “What are those green things?” have evolved into discussions of the health benefits of ________.  Followed statements like by he might even enjoy it, who knows. The inbred suspicion of green things doesn’t leave some men when they age. They were stymied by chocolate donuts and marshmallows and never develop an adult palate. It is my mission to help with this.

Enter Bountiful Baskets the wonderful vegetable game. You take your basket and get fruits and vegetables very reasonably priced. You get more with your buying power than you can through the grocery store and you get your family to try things. They can no longer inspect the cart and sacks before you can get them into the car. You can just walk into the house and plunk down you baskets of fruits and vegetables. Can’t wait till you try this ________!  Use your imagination.

Google will offer up a recipe for anything you’ve never cooked before. You’ve nothing to lose. It also shifts the meal planning away from the meat dish. I’ve whispered the previous statement not wanting to blaspheme too loudly, especially within hearing of an objecting ear. We should all be cooking veggies, serving up salads, and stuffing squash. Let’s play vegetables. I’ll see your three zucchini and raise you a rutabaga.
 

2 comments:

  1. So, where does one go, or what must one do to become a part of this fun?

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  2. Barb, if you go to www.bountifulbaskets.org you'll find out when to sign up. It used to be Monday's starting at noon, and you better be online at noon to get your basket. They are usually out by 2pm, if not earlier. Then on Saturday you go to your designated place and pick up your produce. I used to do it all the time, but I got tired of eating kale and having my Saturdays eaten up by the fact they are never on time (unless you go to the early morning one). ~ Jennifer

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