If you can resist devouring those berries before you even get home here is a tasty way to enjoy your berries for dessert or just another time.

1 quart of berries (can use any berries)

2 T lemon juice

1 T sugar (vanilla sugar if you have it, recipe follows)

Slice berries or leave whole if they are small and super delicate. Leave blueberries, raspberries and black berries whole.   Sprinkle sugar over them then squeeze juice and stir gently.  Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.  The liquid rendered by the berries plus the sugar and lemon become almost syrupy.  Enjoy with ice cream, whipped cream, waffles, etc. I've been known to stand in front of the fridge and steal a bite from the bowl as I contemplate my next move.  Adjust sugar and juice to your taste. 

Vanilla Sugar

A few cups of sugar

A vanilla bean or 2

Sturdy airtight cookie tin or other wide mouthed airtight container

Pour the sugar into the container.  Then cut open the vanilla bean lengthwise.  Scrape the tiny seeds inside the bean into the sugar, it's kinda sticky so just do your best, I wipe the knife through the sugar to get off as much as possible.  Then break the remaining pod into a few pieces throw it in with the sugar and mix the whole thing up well.  Cover and allow the flavor of the vanilla to permeate all of the sugar for at least a week.  Then just use as needed pouring measured amount through a small strainer to keep pod pieces out of your food and add them back to the sugar.  I keep a special spoon in my container and store the container and all in a cabinet occasionally replenishing sugar or vanilla as needed.  We also use this sugar to coat special cookies handed down from my grandmother-in-law.