Organics to You - May 24, 2010

Hmm... not a lot of fruit in today's box from Organics to You, excepting the tomatoes and avocados:

• green leaf lettuce
• spinach
  
• asparagus
• fresh fava beans
• fresh shelling peas
• radishes
• bunch of carrots
• 5 tomatoes
• 3 avocados
• 2 cucumbers
• fennel bulb
• broccoli
• shallots
• 2 bulbs garlic
• basil
• cilantro
  

In the fridge:

• Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) - oddly enough these are still there and might be OK
  
• green leaf lettuce
• half an avocado
• a few small zucchini
• 2 cucumbers
  
• several bulbs of shallot
• 2 bulbs garlic
• large, yellow onion
  
• fresh fava beans
• collards
• baby cauliflower
• 2 red velvet apricots
• 2 d'anjou pears
  
• some broccoli
• a bulb of fennel
• 2 young Walla Walla onions
  
• carrots
• red beets
• turnips
• radishes
  
• red Bibb lettuce
  
• ginger
• 1 yam
• 4 grapefruit
• 6 oranges
• 2 mangoes
  
• 2 lemons
• 6 apples
  
• 2 kiwi
• 4 wrinkled peaches - these just didn't ripen nice last week
• several bananas
• a few pints of Hood strawberries
  

The Compost Pail of Shame (what we didn't use and had to compost):

• 2 bananas
  

We have been looking at what we eat and have noticed our tendency to not each much fruit combined with our shared sweet tooth and eating out a lot. The result is the decision to limit out eating out and limit sweets for special occasions. Last week I even made up a batch of almond cupcakes with almond icing and didn't have one!

The result has been the purchase of quite a lot more fruit and supplementary veggies for big salads. We found last week's green lettuce a little bitter and bought several heads of delicious, delicate red Bibb lettuce a the farmers market on Saturday along with a half flat of Hood strawberries, beautiful radishes, and snow peas (immediately went into a gingery stir-fry). We've been using a lot more veggies in all the lunch/dinner/snack dishes as well as a lot more fruit showing up at breakfast and for snacks.

We tried to supplement some things that looked like they were coming with a shopping trip to New Seasons yesterday, however, it somewhat backfired as several items did show up in the box. Now we have a surplus of garlic, radishes and cucumbers!