Co-op haul, sleeping through one dinner, making the boy cook the other

Friday night before co-op pick up is usually the time to clear out the fridge the best I can.  I honestly hadn't expected to cook on Friday, because Thursday was crockpot lasagna night, and that usually has lots of leftovers.  Sadly everyone really liked the veggie lasagna, and it was mostly consumed on Thursday and I had to do some quick thinking on Friday to come up with what to feed folks.
Any I grabbed those last potatoes that had been hanging around, some onion, the last zuchini, one of the big green peppers and a few of the sweet peppers and several eggs and a vegan apple sage sausage for a Fritatta.  It made a lovely quick dinner.  I was only sad that I didn't find the mushrooms until after dinner when I was doing the fridge clean out.
The co-op haul consisted of a basic share, an asian veggie pack and a bag of granola.
In this I got:
Bok Choy
Asian Cabbage
Celery
Green cauliflower
5 cucumbers (okay I actually traded my lettuce for extra cucumbers, which is why I have so very many)
7 peppers
honey dew
7 red potatoes
broccoli
5 bananas
3 avacados
6 tomatoes
2 mangos
blackberries
basil
green onions
ginger
garlic
9 small onions

 Leftover from last week was
cucumber
8 peppers
3 bunches of celery
sweet peppers
3 heads of lettuce
onions
garlic
8 apples
6 mandarin oranges
10 tangelos
2 lemons 3 bananas
mushrooms

The leftover bananas immediately got consumed Saturday after we got home from picking up our produce in banana walnut pancakes.  They were yummy.
Saturday night we had a bithday party to attend and so ate there.
Sunday morning was another Fritatta, using onion, peppers and one of potatoes.    Lunch was eat out, since it was meeting time for the husband and then we had to make our excursion to Costco for mostly non-food items this time.
Sunday night everyone had a lovely stir fry over some asian noodles.  I slept through dinner, since I hadn't been sleeping much of late.  I did get to enjoy the leftovers and they were yummy.  The sauce was honey and crushed red pepper and the veggies were bok choy, onion, peppers,celery, orange slices and I think some ginger.  It was very yummy as leftovers.
Monday was a pesto on spaghetti noodles and salad with each person's choice of dressing.  I made the boy fix it as I had car trouble that left me waiting for AAA at the school.  Then by some miracle the car decided to work when AAA showed up.  Very embarrassing.  I borrowed the car to take the girl to girl scouts, and dinner was ready when I got home.   Tomorrow, the car goes to the shop, since AAA and the husband both inform me that it is likely a loose connection.  But it really messed up my schedule.

Eh Veggies and then some amazing Leftovers.

Sunday night was some veggies over rice and some leftover layered salad.  It was edible.  We finished off the veggies and salad and stored the rice for later use.  I always make lots of rice.
Anyway the veggies consisted of onion, mushrooms, zucchini, a couple of the little sweet peppers and one of the larger green peppers.  cooked up in some hearty veggie broth and a little bit of flour to make it gravy like with salt and pepper.  I think it would have been better with more mushrooms and salt.  I am usually very stingy when cooking with salt.

Monday, the girl child didn't have school so I cooked up some eggs for me and the kids.  I made mine with onion and topped it with some of the grape tomatoes. And had a piece of toast with local honey and a mandarin orange on the side.

Then Monday night was once again Krav night.  So I made some "burgers" out of the leftover rice and some garbanzo beans, sweet peppers, onion, celery, garlic, salt, an egg and oats for the boy to pop in the oven before we got home.  I also put him in charge of making a fruit salad to go with it.
He made a lovely fruit salad with some pineapple, strawberries and apples.  He made a lot of it.  I know what I am having for lunch tomorrow.

Co-op Shares and the Salad Blues

Once again I got a double share from the co-op, and split a case of strawberries.  We also volunteered and I traded a bag of apples for another box of mushrooms just cause we still had apples from last week.  We also got the bread variety pack.
This week's inventory:
4 boxes of strawberries
1 bag of apples +2 extras
2.5 bunches of Spinach (It was 3, but half of one was used for our Saturday morning breakfast with friends before coming home)
2 heads of lettuce
9 tomatoes (was 10, but we used one for breakfast)
2 cucumber
4 zucchini
4 boxes of mushrooms
2.5 boxes of blackberries (was 3, but the girl child munched on them on the way home)
5 avacados
11 bananas
10 oranges
10 peppers
Leftover from previous weeks:
1.5 boxes of strawberries
3 heads of romaine lettuce
1 head of butter lettuce
3 bunches of celery
8 tangelos
6 apples
13 mandarin oranges
1 sweet potato
onions (I actually went to the store last week for a bag of onion since I cook with them so much)
4 potatoes
2 partial boxes of grape tomatoes
several small sweet peppers

Breakfast with friends consisted of scrambled eggs, sauteed spinach and onion, sliced tomato, fresh strawberries and apples.

Lunch was sandwiches and fruit and those veggie straw chips.  Sort of a fend for yourself.  I think the only I did that might have counted as fixing a meal for the family was cutting the hoagie rolls and slicing a tomato and washing some lettuce.  This was our junk food meal, as my husband put it.

Dinner was the usual layered salad that has become my "how many veggies can I put in this thing" salad and a baked potato with sauteed veggies.  The salad had 2 kinds of lettuce, onion, celery, 2 colors of sweet peppers, cucumber, mushroom, grape tomatoes, frozen peas, frozen corn, Whole Food's 365 mayo and fresh ground black pepper.  The potato topping consisted of both the small red and yellow sweet peppers from last week as well as one of the larger green peppers from this week, zucchini, mushroom and onion.

Last week we had lots of pasta and home made pizza.  I felt sluggish from it.  Of course the layered salads are rather fatty, but there is still no cheese or meat in our diet.  While I think we might still be eating less fat than the average American, I feel like I need to do something to improve the health of our diets.  I think we eat healthier when we are getting more Kale, which I can steam, than lettuce, which I consume with fatty stuff like mayo or on sandwiches. But my weight loss has stalled, which I suspect is from the annoying salad theme going on with the co-op this month.  I just don't do healthy salads.  I need cheese or a creamy dressing to make them edible, and I can't eat cheese anymore. 

I think that next week I might have to order just one basket of produce and figure out what to do with all this lettuce and celery that is filling up my fridge.

Catching up

I feel sort of bad for not keeping up with my menu plans, but things had gotten sort of boring.  But I think I have figured out how to at least make some minor changes to keep the food interesting.
So going back to Saturday's co-op haul  We just got a double share this time.  This week included:
3 boxes of strawberries
2 boxes of mushrooms
2 boxes of grape tomatoes
2 bunches of celery
2 bunches of Asparagus
3 heads of romaine lettuce
4 zucchini
16 apples
25 tangelos
16 bananas
3 pints of sweet peppers

I still had left over from previous weeks:
broccoli
asparagus
2 bunches of celery
2 zucchini
1 leafy green lettuce
1.5 live butter lettuce
pineapple already cut
a few potatoes
And that single sweet potato (thank goodness those things keep so long)
Lots of oranges

Saturday was eating leftovers of chili beans and potatoes.
Sunday it was our turn to contribute to the church potluck.  I decided this was a good change to use up some of the lettuce and make layered salads, and also took lots of fruit.
I actually made 2 slightly different layered salads, although they look alike here.
They both have
3 kids of lettuce, onion (went to the store for that), celery,  broccoli, mayo, quartered grape tomatoes and fresh ground pepper.  The difference is that one has frozen peas and the other has frozen corn and some chopped sweet peppers.

Monday night consisted of some Asparagus roasted with onion and mushrooms tossed in olive oil and salt before cooking and served over a pasta that had been tossed in olive oil and nutritional yeast with strawberries on the side.  I think I like this even better than the garlic roasted asparagus that we have been having often.

Lunches have been fairly simple things.  Hummus in chips, peanut butter on celery (I do have 4 bunches of celery that needs eating), and today is a beautiful smoothie made with bananas, pineapple, strawberries and just a handful of frozen berries to chill it.

We are going through the veggies very quickly this week, and I doubt we will have any to eat on Friday, other than lettuce and celery.  But the fruit we have in abundance.  I think I might freeze any bananas we still have left tomorrow evening.  It is getting warm enough for regular smoothies again and frozen bananas are great for that.  And the husband is happy to have frozen bananas for making banana bread.