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.
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