I will take you along in my journey into organics one baby step at a time.
I live in a area with pretty limited organic area. No Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or Wild Oats. Just 2 conventional grocery stores and a SuperWalmart and a Kmart. No farmers markets, CSA, or anything for hundreds of miles...so it's going to be baby steps for me all the way. One product at a time. And if I can stockpile something...even better.
I live in a area with pretty limited organic area. No Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, or Wild Oats. Just 2 conventional grocery stores and a SuperWalmart and a Kmart. No farmers markets, CSA, or anything for hundreds of miles...so it's going to be baby steps for me all the way. One product at a time. And if I can stockpile something...even better.
Cascadian Farms Organic Frozen Cherries
Posted 02-14-2008 at 07:46 PM by queenofthehivemomof5
Cascadian Farms Organic Frozen Cherries
This past week my local Albertsons has been doing a reset and complete store inventory due to the change in ownership from Albertsons LLC to Supervalu. This has meant for me tons of clearance stuff. One of my great clearance finds was a bag of Cascadian Farms Organic Frozen Cherries for only .50 cents a bag! I snatched up that bag in an instant as frozen fruit is yummy.
So this morning, looking for something to eat for breakfast I spied that bag of cherries and some vanilla yogurt in the fridge so I proceeded to thaw the cherries in the microwave per the instructions on the bag (50% power for 5 Min stirring halfway through). I then put about 1 container each of vanilla yogurt (yes folks it was Yoplait, not organic but was what I had coupons for) in 4 bowls and then spooned some of those lovely cherries and their juice over the yogurt and added a handful of Bear Naked berry flavored granola (also snagged on clearance for $1 a bag by my husband!) and the twins, my 4 year old and I sat down to eat our healthy and partially organic breakfast along with a cup of orange juice for the little guys and coffee for me.
The yogurt with cherries and granola was a big hit and very tasty. The kids devoured it wanting more. And I was impressed with the flavor. I am normally a flavored yogurt kind of gal and instead of adding fruit to my yogurt I usually purchase already flavored yogurt. The cherries added a nice substance to our breakfast and did not impart a artificially flavored cherry flavor that most already flavored yogurts possess. The cherries were small, about the size of a large blueberry but I guess that is what happens when you freeze them. Buying already frozen cherries sure does beat having to pit them yourselves and the convenience of it all was great. The granola added a nice additional berry flavor with its freeze dried blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries as well as a pleasing crunch.
As I am not normally a breakfast eater (bad habits are hard to break) I was really enjoying this version of breakfast and really could even see myself serving this as a dessert to the family.
Since I was lured into buying the cherries based on price alone I must say that I am trying to obtain some high value Cascadian Farms coupons so that I might stockpile some of their frozen fruit. Seeing as how I do not have a cherry tree of my own this seems like a viable and relatively budget smart thing to do to bring additional flavors and help us get our 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
So I am defiantly planning on buying more of Cascadian Farms Organic Frozen Cherries as well as their other frozen fruits and think I can get a deal that rivals Dole or other brands on the market with some $1.00/1 coupons. I give these cherries a 5 star rating and hope you will pick up a bag the next time you are in the market for some frozen fruit!
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 |  I do the same thing with the fruit, vanilla yogurt and granola for breakfast and I love it! Their other frozen fruit is really high quality. I think the cherries are the only thing I haven't tried yet. |
Posted 02-19-2008 at 12:27 AM by kristen.c  |
| |  Man it sounds so good. I buy frozen blueberries, strawberries and mango for smoothies all the time but have never thought about cherries! Great idea! |
| Posted 02-23-2008 at 08:56 PM by jenjacobs |
| |  What a great deal! I love your blogs by the way, I like how you incorperated pics with yours, thanks for sharing. |
| Posted 03-18-2008 at 04:05 AM by weeziebug |
| | Aw thanks for the comments on my blog. I am glad you have been enjoying them. I have some new products I want to review but have just not had the time lately because of many projects. |
| Posted 03-18-2008 at 04:42 AM by queenofthehivemomof5 |
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