THRIVE Market!

Have you heard about Thrive Market yet?

They are a wonderful company that sells healthy and natural products and brands you love at wholesale prices.  Think Costco but better!  We don't buy much in the way of packaged foods anymore but the few items we do we get from Thrive now.  

When I first learned about them I compared the prices on the items I would buy the most between our local Kroger and Amazon.  Thrive won out every time.  They deliver straight to your door and offer free shipping on any order over $49!  So, about once a month we place our order with Thrive and then we can avoid the store (except the Farmer's market) except for those occasional items you need ASAP. 

Thrive is also a company with a great mission and a commitment to providing a family in need with a membership for each paid membership.  That means, when you join not only do you get the benefits of discounted healthy foods and products...but you are giving that opportunity to another family as well.  I like the sound of that!

This morning we received another order from Thrive.  All this for less than $45! 

That's two bags of organic oats, three packages of wild rice cakes, two huge bags of cereal, pancake mix, two boxes of crackers, baby wash, toothpaste and they included a recipe for blueberry muffins ♥

If you'd like to give Thrive a test drive, you can try them out without paying for membership for 2 months.  You will also get 25% off your first order and free shipping over $49!  Give it a try and let me know what you think.  If you have any questions, let me know! 

Try THRIVE now!

Fig!

Summer is starting its wind down here at our little house.  The pool hours are cutting back, public school started back today and most of the Summer crops in the garden have already been pulled to make way for Fall plantings.  Its a bittersweet feeling to see the sky darkening sooner and to see the first leaves already beginning to fall (even though its still in the 90's here today).  Its that mixed bag of being eager for my favorite season to arrive and being a little sad that Summer is almost gone.  Truly, Fall doesn't really get going around here until October...but I am already dreaming of pulling the scarves back out and mixing up batches and batches of pumpkin bread.

Today in honor of the pending close to Summer and the welcoming of Fall we made fig jam.  We have a fig tree or two in our backyard but they are still green.  I am afraid they are not going to ripen properly due to how dry it has been and Mr. has been eyeing them like crazy.  So, when we went to the market this morning and saw they had buy one get one containers of figs that was that.

 You can tell we are jonesing for Fall here, right?

While the baby napped I whipped up two jars of fig jam, one with cinnamon and one without.  Hopefully we will still get our own figs from out back, but in case we don't...this should do the trick.  

Fig Jam Recipe:

24 ripe figs

One Lemon

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)

2 cups water

Wash and allow figs to air dry 

Chop figs and place in large sauce pan

Add 2 cups water and bring to a low boil

Add sugar and turn up heat

After about 10 minutes mash if you like

Continue to stir frequently to avoid sticking

Add lemon juice 

Continue to simmer over medium heat until it thickens to consistency you like 

Add cinnamon if desired

Allow to cool then add to clean jars

Will keep in refrigerator for 10 or so days