A grocery store is like a carnival midway—it offers shelves and shelves of goodies that only become available after lobbing baseballs at stacks of bottles. Today's Groupon brings the fresh food without the carnie cons: for $20, you get $40 worth of groceries at Delicious Orchards, in Colts Neck.

Opened in 1911, Delicious Orchards has grown to a 110-acre operation that sows and harvests apples and stocks its family farm and country store with a plentitude of tasty treats. The aisles of the gourmet grocery shop shelter more than 400 cheeses, bakery goods, warm prepared entrees, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and more. Sweet teeth can chatter about the orchard-plucked apples that metamorphose into apple-cider donuts ($3.99) and apple pie ($11.99), while empty mouths gobble up a mound of chocolate-chip cookies ($3.99). After filling baskets with hearty meats, cheeses, and produce, shoppers can gawk at the honeybee hive, located at the front of the shop, where a swarm of buzzers busily milk honeycombs and keep the nearby wooden crates stocked with bottled nectar.

Reviews

More than twenty Yelpers give Delicious Orchards a 4.5-star average rating, and Insider Pagers give it a five-star average:

• I LOVE their blueberry crumb pie - it is to die for! – Anna C., Yelp, 1/17/11
• All the baked goods are fresh, as well as all the produce. – lindsay m., Insider Pages