Hmm… not a lot of fruit in today’s box from Organics to You, excepting the tomatoes and avocados:
- green leaf lettuce
- spinach
- asparagus
- fresh fava beans
- fresh shelling peas
- radishes
- bunch of carrots
- 5 tomatoes
- 3 avocados
- 2 cucumbers
- fennel bulb
- broccoli
- shallots
- 2 bulbs garlic
- basil
- cilantro
In the fridge:
- Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) – oddly enough these are still there and might be OK
- green leaf lettuce
- half an avocado
- a few small zucchini
- 2 cucumbers
- several bulbs of shallot
- 2 bulbs garlic
- large, yellow onion
- fresh fava beans
- collards
- baby cauliflower
- 2 red velvet apricots
- 2 d’anjou pears
- some broccoli
- a bulb of fennel
- 2 young Walla Walla onions
- carrots
- red beets
- turnips
- radishes
- red Bibb lettuce
- ginger
- 1 yam
- 4 grapefruit
- 6 oranges
- 2 mangoes
- 2 lemons
- 6 apples
- 2 kiwi
- 4 wrinkled peaches – these just didn’t ripen nice last week
- several bananas
- a few pints of Hood strawberries
- 2 bananas
We have been looking at what we eat and have noticed our tendency to not each much fruit combined with our shared sweet tooth and eating out a lot. The result is the decision to limit out eating out and limit sweets for special occasions. Last week I even made up a batch of almond cupcakes with almond icing and didn’t have one!
The result has been the purchase of quite a lot more fruit and supplementary veggies for big salads. We found last week’s green lettuce a little bitter and bought several heads of delicious, delicate red Bibb lettuce a the farmers market on Saturday along with a half flat of Hood strawberries, beautiful radishes, and snow peas (immediately went into a gingery stir-fry). We’ve been using a lot more veggies in all the lunch/dinner/snack dishes as well as a lot more fruit showing up at breakfast and for snacks.
We tried to supplement some things that looked like they were coming with a shopping trip to New Seasons yesterday, however, it somewhat backfired as several items did show up in the box. Now we have a surplus of garlic, radishes and cucumbers!