Co-op and gardening planning

OMG, that is a lot of food.
This week from the co-op we chose 2 shares, a lunch box pack and a bread variety pack (not show, because there wasn't enough room on my table).
This means we got:
18 bananas (5 from the lunch box pack)
3 cauliflower
4 packs of mushroom (one was my selection for volunteering)
2 heads of lettuce
2 bags of green beans (I really hate snapping these, but I will do it, which we got a different variety that wasn't such a pain)
1 bag of grapes (also from the lunch box pack)
1 lb bag of baby carrots (lunch box pack)
4 pears (lunch box)
4 apple pears (lunch box)
4 squash
2 bunches of green onion
4 cucumber
2 celery
15 tomatoes
2 pineapple
3 honey dew (one was my husband's choice for volunteering)

Also I had some baby carrots, a bit of spinach, peppers , 1 banana, some cutie oranges, and celery left over from last week.

I made plans and to be honest all the running around we did today already blew that out of the water as we ate out.  I got to have a veggie buger at Mooyah, which is way too good, but not the healthiest choice and then we had taco bell bean burritos for a very late dinner.  But breakfast was healthy in the form of vegan banana oatmeal pancakes.

Also on my meal plan I have green beans tomorrow for lunch, but that isn't happening because I didn't get them snapped.  Now I don't really have anything against snapping beans per se.  But when I was growing up we had to snap a lot of pinto green beans, which were these nice fat and flatish bean.  They were much easier to deal with than these skinny round things, and you got more food for your effort as well as them just tasting better. 

  But despite the set backs, I think I can get back on track and eat healthier starting tomorrow.  I think I will move the veggie kabobs to tomorrow and maybe throw the green beans into a soup later in the week for lunch.

And to supplement the whole co-op thing, we have been trying to garden.  It has not born fruit yet (sorry for the pun).  The tomatoes are blooming like crazy, but not turning into tomatoes.  I am very sad over this.  What seeds I did have come up either died in the replanting process or  just came up today from being directly sown into the bed.  Only the fava beans and carrots have sprouted.  I am hoping the spinach,  and the spinach-chard will start to sprout soon. 

I did give up on the Brussels sprouts and bought some plants (nine of them actually).  Along with the Brussels sprouts we also purchased and planted a yellow squash, a zuchini, a strawberry (the strawberry went into a pot and I don't really expect any fruit from it, I am just hoping for it to make more plants for next year), some bell peppers, some more oregano (my last one died while we were at WorldCon), some more basil (it seems to have partially died while we were gone), onions, and some potatoes in a trash can since they were already making roots in my pantry.  We also noticed that the beets in the fridge were making some new leaves, so we planted those in hopes of getting some chard out of it.

The sweet potato plant on the other hand is thriving.  We had one that was turning into a plant in the pantry at the old house, so we held onto it and planted it when we moved in.  It really likes the heat.

My goal with the garden is to be able to go back down to only one basket from the co-op a few times a year and still be eating mostly fresh produce.

My next focus on the garden is fruit.  Seems I need to plant that in late October or early November.  I am thinking of starting with blackberries, plums and figs for my first year.    I also need some more rosemary.