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Got a question, have any of you ever ordered that edible arrangments! I was thinking of getting my mom that instead of flowers for herbirtday and mothers day. Wondered if the fruit in it was good.
Yes, it was ripe and good-tasting. The only problem I have with them is their cost. I think it’s very expensive for what you get, but then, you are probably paying for the novelty, not just the fruit.
One thing though, because everything is at its peak of it’s freshness, you have to pretty much eat it all right away. I dislike eating it because then you destroy the beauty. But then I have trouble with receiving flowers too because I hate it when they die. Yeah, weird, I know!
the tiniest one is around $30 here and the fruit is probably costing less tha 5. It’s an alternative to someone who is allergic to flowers or doesn’t like them. A novelty at best.
and good. As for the cost, fruit is just expensive any way you buy it. When I buy cut-up fruit in our cafeteria at work, the smallest amount is at least $2-$3. You do need to eat the arrangement in one day or the next since it is ripe fruit. Guess taking it apart and putting it in the fridge would help a lot.
you are also paying for the convenience of it being already prepared. Same thing with those prepared salads. But…I buy both because it just doesn’t pay to buy the whole fruits/vegetables for only one person as it would spoil before I could use it all. So, in the long run, I guess it probably pays to buy it that way.
And speaking of fruit, I am so sick an tired of buying fruit here that looks ripe and delicious and then getting it home and it’s terrible. I’ve thrown away so many peaches because when I bite into them, there’s no juice at all and their insides are like cardboard. I’ve even got some that were crunchy like an apple.
Same with grapes and blueberries, they look great but so sour I can’t eat them. About the only thing I can depend on is apples and bananas. I miss the great fruit I could buy in California. I think all the junk we get here is from Mexico and South America and shipped before it’s ripe.
I always “test” the grapes. Lol. We usually love buying those cutie oranges, usually They are usually all juicey and sweet. I wish you could test the celery before you buy a stalk or the hearts which are our favorite part. Usually it’s bitter. I think that’s one of the biggest gambles in the produce department. Lol. Thanks for all the input for the edible arrangements, I think I will buy just the small one for her birthday then probably flowers for mothers day. I already have one for her, she picked it out, lol, she wanted a new humming bird feeder that we saw at lowes. Shes got that too. Lol.
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