Bountiful Basket

This weeks Bountiful Basket:

• Lettuce
• Broccoli
• Celery
• 3 Acorn Squash
• 5 Yellow Onions
• Okra - a good 5 handfuls
• 6 Bananas
• 6 Peaches
• 8 Apples
• 8 Green Plums
• 3 Asian Pears
• 1lb Seedless Concord Grapes

Italian Pack:

• Eggplant
• 2 Zucchini
• Mushrooms
• 4 Yellow/Purple Onion
• Garlic
• Basil
• Rosemary
• Oregano
• Italian Parsley

The Italian pack was a great add on for $7 with big bunches of fresh herbs. Fantastic deal considering I just paid a little over three bucks for some fresh Basil alone this last week!

This weeks challenge will be the Okra since I've never cooked it.. I'm not sure I've even eaten it before! I will have to let you know what I end up doing with it.

Here's a recipe we've made MANY times over the last few weeks. I looked up recipes for cabbage since I have never been a fan and I tried this cabbage soup. To my surprise it was delicious! We made a big pot of it and Ashleigh and I ate the whole thing within two days. Now, as we run our we make another pot. It's great as is but you could add pretty much anything to it. I told Jerrick & Sierra about it since they got a basket that week too and weren't sure what to do with the cabbage either.. they loved it also! (neither of them care for cabbage either) Sierra said it's her new favorite soup!


We made stuffed peppers with the Bell Peppers from last time. I cooked up some meat and rice then chopped some veggies (onion, mushroom, garlic). The kids got to stuff their own pepper with what they wanted and they loved them!