Co-op Haul and back to blogging

This is our haul from our Bountiful Baskets co-op this morning.  This represents about 2 baskets worth, an order of multi-grain bread and a few extras from volunteering.  I also have an extra head of lettuce from a friend. 
Our family of 3 has blossomed to a family of 4 recently, which accounts for the not blogging.  My young adult son has moved home since he is no longer needed to care for my grandfather, now that my grandfather has moved to an assisted living facility specializing in memory care.  And this accounts for the double basket.

One of the things we do upon pick up is to have breakfast at a friends house while she teaches our 12 year old piano.  We bring the eggs and my husband does the cooking.  So from this photo is missing a bell pepper and a tomato that went into the breakfast.  They provided the fruit that was part of the breakfast.  They gave us their lettuce since they are not as fond of butter lettuce as we are. 

I also still have a few things left over from previous weeks' co-op shares such as leeks (mainly because I traded for extras), potatoes, sweet potatoes and jalapenos and a chayote which were in the veggie pack last time).

Gratuitous Cat Photo - Willow Approved

This week you can see that we have:
3 heads of butter lettuce (that should last us a good while)
5 acorn squash
3 bunches of asparagus (yum!)
7 giant carrots
2 - 2lb bags, plus 3 blood oranges
9 large apples
6 bell peppers
11 tomatoes
2 garlic bulbs
11 small pears
5 loaves mulit-grain bread
All this for a total of $43.50

After getting home with all these goodies, we start making the menu plan for the week, so we can then make our grocery shopping list as well.

Sunday
Breakfast: Eggs with veggies in a lettuce wrap
Lunch: Sandwiches and fruit for kiddos, hummus w/ veggies and fruit for the adults (busy day with meetings at church, finish moving the son, and maybe a game night at friends if we actually get it all done)
Dinner: Potato Leek Soup (cooked in crock pot during the day and put through blender when we get home).  If we go to game night it can be put away for lunches during the week and we can make a fruit salad to take to friends.

From here we just plan dinners, with lunches being leftovers, and breakfasts being a fend for yourself usually oatmeal, peanut butter on toast with fruit, just fruit, or eggs in one form or another, unless muffins are on hand.

Monday: Rosemary Potatoes and Carrots with Baked Asparagus

Tuesday: Baked Acorn Squash, Baked Sweet Potatoes, Lentil Stew  (leftover squash and sweet potatoes will be pureed and turned into muffins for breakfasts for the rest of the week).

Wednesday: Lentil burgers w/ Lettuce wraps (made from leftover lentil stew) and sauteed chayote

Thursday: Spaghetti - home made sauce with salad

Friday:  Leftovers in some form.  I have no idea what we will have at this point.  If nothing else I might make pizza from the leftover spaghetti sauce or we might just warm all the bits and pieces and everyone just choose what they want from a variety.  But the goal is to empty the fridge in time for co-op pick up the next morning, and still have a healthy meal.  If we have no leftovers, I might consent to eating out at this time.