Blueberry Pickin'!

So once a year, we do blueberries!  

Our goal as a family is to pick as many blueberries as we can before one of our kids melt down and makes it almost impossible to keep picking!

  

This year it was a huge success: We lasted almost an hour! (I prolonged our stay by giving everyone the biggest suckers we have - our beloved tootsie roll pops. :)

So, we picked almost 30 lbs.  

What in the world do we with all those berries?  

Well, besides snacking on bowls of them late last night, we freeze most of them.  And then I try and use them sparingly throughout the rest of the year.  Try is the key word here.  It's the best when warm, fresh blueberry muffins come out of the oven in the dead of winter.  Or popping out those delcious, little blue guys with our maple syrup on otherwise boring oatmeal.

So, yes...we went picking!  Every year it seems to be more fun!  Our older girls actually are helpful and the younger ones...well...they try!  It has become a family tradition that we all actually look forward to.  

So, if you're looking for something to do this summer that could bring a little healthy blueberry love the rest of the year, check out your local blueberry farm.  

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Here's the link to Martin's Blueberries, where we go.