Yummy Berries!

A huge benefit to living lakeside year round are the fresh berries; raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, & blackberries. I noticed that many times the blackberries are kind of sour but I freeze them & use them in our fresh natural unsweetened yogurt smoothies w/raw honey in place of ice cubes. Love ice cream but these delicious desserts are good for us! Good flora, antioxidants & immune system building! So many healthy benefits to berries!

Little feet, in my house, loves fresh berries. After disinfecting these babies w/grapefruit seed extract, I filled a bowl full for little feet and another bowl full for me. Wow, the blackberries are amazing! Sweet & hugantic! I'm shocked but delighted! Little feet also said, "yummy!" and enthusiastically asked for a refill of the same :)

I remember the first year out here, not knowing where to find anything really & asking where's the berries? For any newbie that may like to find some, we buy ours from the berry lady & her husband that sit in front of the liquor store next door to Super Lake.

Bon Appétit!

Nice refreshing post!!! Mmmmm......good! We buy mostly strawberries and black raspberries to use in our homemade ice cream and in pancakes and waffles. After cleaning them we package them up in small bunches and freeze them.

oh man, get me started on food...lol

My dad does not like yogurt...I think I mentioned in a post that some family members wanted store bought foam. I told them I'd be insulted if they brought it home & insisted we make homemade ice cream. Not just once, but we made it 3 times in 10 days! It was so good! But all that sugar, not so good :(

Mi esposo y yo estan gordos, otra vez so back to eating really healthy & lots of exercise to find less of us to love. :)

Love, love, love waffles! My favorite breakfast! Gotta get another waffle iron, maybe cast iron!

When you start homestead cooking, you discover how to make the original. When I learned how to make almond milk, I didn't have the heart to throw out all that almond meat. If you dehydrate it, I use the oven on low heat, you can grind the dried meat in a coffee grinder & walah, fresh almond flour! We're not gluten intolerant or anything but I had to find something to make with it. Almond pancakes became a healthier alternative for us. We like them hot with raw honey drizzled on top.

Last fall I was adventurous and made fresh apple pectic & then made strawberry freezer jam...sometimes my first tries are boo boos so that served us with strawberry syrup but the second batch I made w/blackberries...it was to die for! Been thinking about making some more freezer jam. So yummy with homemade biscuits. haha I can't make this stuff, I'm trying to lose some of me!

Any idea why the blueberries in the markets are so much more expensive than the others? Don't they come from southern Jalisco?

As far as I know, they're grown in Jocotepec!!! I think probably size has something to with part of it & the that the supply is always limited.

Really, blueberries are grown in Alaska! There you'll find blueberry tea & the most scrumptious blueberry ice cream while in season!

I love Maine blueberries. When I was little and lived in Maine, every weekend morning, my parents would send me, my brother and sister out to pick fresh blueberries.

When I lived in Joco I either had a neighbor that worked in the berry farms bring some free ... or people showed up at my gate selling them. Lived about 5 blocks from a raspberry farm. Yummmm

saege- Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and I believe a part of Quebec are the only areas that have "wild blueberries". They are smaller and tastier than cultivated ones.

Having worked for a blueberry operation in N.B., I would hardly consider them wild. They are tastier and have higher levels of anti-oxidents. Care for some "Blueberry Grunt"?

Strawberries were 15 pesos per kilo at our tianguies in GDL,a little vanilla ice cream from La Michoacana and you have a nice dessert.

Blueberries are fine but given a choice I would always take Huckleberries from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Smaller berry with a more intense flavor. Royal PITA to pick and clean and one always has to be on the lookout for bear. Huckleberries are not grown commercially but around Spokane, WA, I have seen them selling for $20/gal along the highways near where they are picked.

RE: "have higher levels of anti-oxidents". I saw a report the other day that indicated that blueberries only provided this health benefit if they have been frozen. ??????

You can find wild blueberries growing outside of Whistler in B.C. and in northern Ontario (along highway 7).
Where their are pine trees growing, you'll probably fine wild blueberries. The pine needles make the soil acidic and blueberries love growing in that soil.

While huckleberries may often be called wild blueberries, they are a different plant and a different berry:
http://www.helium.com/items/779506-comparing-huckleberries-and-blueberries

In order of most anti oxidants: Wild Blueberries, Cultivated Blueberries, Cranberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries. Source: WebMD

We buy Frozen Blueberries at Costco, lasts almost a year.

Please add Ontario to the list of CDN wild blueberry locales. The Costcos here in Vancouver carry frozen wild CDN blue berries. Great product at a good price.

This explains the difference.

http://www.wildblueberries.com/news/faqs.php