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To my surprise, my Fancy Food Box arrived today. I got a tracking e-mail about it yesterday, but I wasn’t expecting it until mi-month. I have gotten so many Fancy boxes this week, it’s crazy (in a good way of course).
Fancy Food Box (and all the Fancy boxes) ship via FedEx and take 2 days to arrive to me from the East Coast. I kind of hid when my FedEx lady pulled up today because I didn’t want to discuss the insane amount of packages I received this week. I plan on doing the same on Monday when my mail lady comes because I am expecting a TON of packages on Monday. A ton.
The September Fancy Food box was packed full! I know an empty box vs. a full box doesn’t “mean”anything, but I still do like to see a full box!
Fancy Food Box has the same great information cards as all the other Fancy boxes, but they usually also include recipe cards. For whatever reason, this month didn’t have any. No big deal since, although I always save them, I never use them!
~Baby Cakes Waffle Stick Maker ($25): I received this in a Jennifer Love Hewitt Fancy box a few months ago and I love it. It’s super easy to use and the kids love the waffle sticks! I even include a waffle stick maker in the box swap / exchange I participated in a while back!
~Rip Van Wafels ($3.75): LOVE these! I do still have some from the order I placed with Love With Food, but they won’t last long! I highly recommended these. OMG and when I was looking up prices for this I discovered that they have a subscription service coming soon. It looks like it will be coffee and wafels. Sounds good to me.
~Steven Smith No. 1626 Smith Variety Tea ($14.99): Meh tea. You know what I think about tea. B got this brand in his June Mantry Box (I need to order him Mantry before I forget like I did the last two months) and I don’t know if he drank it yet or not. I suspect his tea drinking will increase will fall / winter coming though.
~Birch Benders Six Grain Cinnamon Pancake Mix ($7.50): Well I am pretty sure I know what we are having for breakfast tomorrow! I am going to make these and use our (old) waffle stick maker! I’m already looking forward to it.
~Bonnie’s Jams Apricot Orange ($9): I’m kind of meh about this one. I don’t do crazy for jam, but then again, I don’t eat foods that you’d eat jam on a lot either. I am going to start making toast for WB and am going to try giving him some jam on it. WB is not such a good eater so I’m always trying to mix things up with him!
~Well Dressed Nut Cinnamon Vanilla Pecans ($6): These have B written all over him and I will be packing them in his lunch next week. I pack lunches for both B and L and am always looking for fun new treats to put in for them.
All totaled I came up with a value of $66.24 for the September Fancy Food Box. As always it was higher than the $46.95 cost of the box ($39 + $7.95/shipping) and, yep, I love this box. Two of the items in it were items I have put on my Best of the Boxes lists! Sure I’d love it even more if I didn’t already have half of the items, but since I loved those items I don’t mind too much 😉 and they will certainly make great gifts (or giveaway items).
Did you get a Fancy Food Box this month? What’d you think? Are you in love with those Rip Van Wafels? If you are interested in subscribing or want to learn more, click here. Ohh, and if you are having trouble finding the different Fancy boxes, just do a search for “Fancy Box” and they will all come up! You can still use “FOLLOWUP10″ to save 10% off your box, but I’m still on the hunt for something bigger!
I just opebed my box up but have a question does the top of your apricot jar seem sealed? mine makes the poppy noise like it was never sealed up from manufacturing product.
I got a waffle stick maker for Christmas last year, maybe it’s just me, but it was a pain to get them out.. always made a mess.. There’s a whole collection of products from that company on amazon i want now..
I’ve always wanted to try one of these boxes.. I’ll have to try it sooner or later..
I eat jam on pancakes and waffles. You could do a few different dipping bowls for your waffle sticks. Syrup, Jam, Powdered Sugar, etc. That’s what my mom did for us when we were younger.
Do you have a Trader Joes near you? I’m hoping you might and wondering if you have ever tried the caramel filled stroop-wafels they sell? Omg they sell these little blue bags FULL of mini caramel filled wafels that are imported from Holland and they are amazing! I received the rip wan wafels in love with food last month also and was so excited but honestly I think the trader joes ones are better and maybe cheaper — you probably get a lot more for your dollar…. I really did like the rip van wafels ( and to their credit I did not try them over a hot beverage as they suggested) but Trader Joes are sooo good… You may be able to buy them other places because they aren’t Trader Joe’s brand… Here’s a link to a picture of the bag.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53093916@N00/3090651060/
The only down side is they are mini so don’t fit on top of a mug but I feel less guilty about eating them! Just thought I would share with you because they ( like everything Trader Joes) are amazingg!!!