This week's co-op just doesn't seem as impressive somehow. Maybe it is because we just got the one basket. Maybe it is because there isn't that much fruit that we can just munch on this time.
Anyway, we only got one basket, a variety pack of breads and a 25lb bag of wheat.
The basket had
bok choy
celery
leafy green lettuce
2 bunches of asparagus
5 bell peppers
strawberries
3 lemons
2 bulbs of garlic
4 mangos
7 bananas
We didn't volunteer this weekend, because it was a crazy weekend.
Here we are at Sunday afternoon and most of that is eaten of will be consumed at dinner tonight. Thank goodness 3 out of 4 of us are going out of town and I will have enough leftovers for the boy to eat most of the week.
Friday I made a huge pot of spaghetti sauce, since I knew we would be going out of town and that the boy was unlikely to cook much for himself. I served it over spiral pasta and topped mine with nutritional yeast. This used up all those lovely tomatoes from last week's co-op and bell peppers as well as several cans of tomato products the last of the fresh thyme and parsley I got from the co-op Italian pack and some of the basil off my own plant and some dried Italian seasoning and crushed red pepper and lots of minced garlic and an onion I bought from the store.
Saturday was leftovers and hotdogs made with Field Roast vegan hot dogs.
Sunday I did a stir fry using the bok choy, a stalk of celery, a half onion that was leftover from the onion the husband cooked up with the eggs for breakfast, the chayote from a couple weeks back, a bell pepper and some mince garlic a few eggs and a stir fry sauce made from honey and crushed red pepper served over brown rice.
Sunday dinner will be those last 2 sweet potatoes and the asparagus baked.
I will be taking the bell peppers, celery, mangos and strawberries with us on our spring break trip. The celery will be had with the peanut butter, the bell peppers with the hummus and the mangos will be consumed by the girl child before I ever get to taste one, she has already started on them.
These will be snacks and things to go with our hummus and PB&J sandwiches that we will have to supplement our meals out. The boy better eat all the leftovers I made just for him. But yeah, no way a single basket can feed a family of four eating primarily a vegetarian diet. And to think that a year ago, we struggled to eat everything in one basket. Now I am complaining that I can't get enough food to last much more than a weekend from a single share.
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