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Celebrate American Made, who kindly sent me this box to review, is a brand new subscription service featuring the best food and handcrafted items every month from around the United States. Each month they will select a different state and allow subscribers to enjoy and discover what the locals love.
Celebrate American Made ships via USPS and arrived very quickly. I love their boxes and think they are totally 100% perfect for their subscription. Everything looked great!
Not only was my impression of the box itself amazing, but once I opened it up, I was even more excited. I didn’t recognize anything which is always fun!
Like I mentioned before, every month Celebrate American Made will feature a new state and will showcase items from small-busiensses located in that state for subscribers to enjoy. The January 2014 Celebrate American Made state was Virginia and included the following items:
~Route 11 Yukon Gold Potato Chips: B gobbled these up in about two seconds and said they were delicious. He has good taste, so I’d say they are pretty good.
~Savannah Grace Cheese Straws: We both sampled these and liked, but didn’t love them. We thought they needed something else. I was looking at their site though and saw that the offer a Rosemary Cheese flavor and that may be just want they need! Hopefully I can find these somewhere local because I do love cheese straws!
~Virginia Chutney Sofi Award Winning Chutney: They recommend using this as a glaze for a pork roast. We haven’t gotten a chance to test it, but that’s probably exactly what we will do. I wonder if I can somehow use this in my crockpot with a roast. Anyone?
~Brigit True Organics Lip Balm: Yummy smelling and made my lips feel great! I love all kind of lip balms, chopsticks, lip glosses, etc. so it’s no secret I like this one too!
~Montebello Kitchens Peanut Soup: I haven’t made this yet and I honestly can say that I have never had peanut soup before. I’m not overly excited by this, but heck, I will try it out. B’s not too sure either, but I know he’s also curious!
~Graves Mountain Apple Butter: I think B and I both love Apple Butter so it was a no brainer that we both enjoyed this one. We do need to step up our peanut / apple / other butter eating though because we are accumulating quite a collection!
~Natalie Kay Letterpress Print: ‘Talitha koum’, which translates as, ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up.’ and was printed by the designer to help support a friend who was injured in a car accident (all proceeds from the print go to her family). I don’t know what I will do with the print, but I love the cause!
~Virginia Information: The box also included various pamphlets and brochures about other fabulous Virginia companies. If you want to learn more about products that were in this box or about any of their producers, you can pop over here or click on the “These United States” tab to see what States have been featured so far and what has been included.
I didn’t do a cost breakdown on this one (sometimes it’s just too difficult with lots of local producers), but I am for sure keeping my eye on this one and I know I am totally subscribing when they get to my state (Michigan). I don’t know exactly what order they go in, but the website says that January – Virginia, February – Arizona and March – Colorado!
What do you think of Celebrate American Made? If you are interested in subscribing (subscriptions are $39.95/month) or just want to learn more, click here!
Jennifer,
I have recently found your blog and enjoy it very much. I have recently discovered a love of subscription boxes, and appreciate the tremendous amount of work you put into this webpage.
When you post reviews for edible items, I always wonder about the nutrition labels and allergy information on those products. Maybe you could consider adding a picture of the back of the products to your posts!
Thank you for the kind words!
I always link to the product webpages for food (and all other) items, but I am sure that they don’t always have nutrition facts on there. I will work on improving on that!
This box is so awesome!! Having just moved away from Virginia, this makes miss it even more than I normally do (which is a lot), but the only thing familiar in there is the chips. I am kind of obsessed with this whole every-month-a-new-state thing. Very cool. Can’t wait for Hawaii!!! I will totally get that one. Definitely bookmarking this one.
It’s such a cool idea!!!
I’ve had peanut soup before in Williamsburg. It was actually very good – but hard to describe. It didn’t taste like pure peanut sauce or anything like that, just a hint of peanut.
Did they serve it with anything?
It was just one of the soup options so it wasn’t served with anything in particular. It has a chicken stock base so it can go with pretty much any standard American food.
I have got to know what peanut soup is like!
I am trying to figure out what it would be good with??
I love this box. I started with them at the beginning and the first box was Wyoming. After Virginia they’ll have Arizona then Colorado. I also love your blog and look forward to reading it each day. Thanks for all the hard work you do to keep us up to date on all those boxes!! Stay warm and think spring.
Only a few more months!!!!!