Our CSA

This year, Ryan and I joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Basically, we paid for a share of a farm, and we get weekly fresh produce. We pick up our box every week near our house. We get whatever is in season. Our season runs from May to November. This has been great! Especially because we got a choice option, so we can rebuild our box and skip things we don't eat. Like beets and turnips, and lettuce bombs...aka kohlrabi. Although we have gotten more adventurous and are trying new things. In May we got asparagus every week, lots of it! Yum! And lots of lettuce and greens. Now we are starting to get corn, melon, peppers and lots of cucumbers. This week I made a cucumber black bean salad, with corn, pepper, onions, cucumbers, black beans, and a little olive oil, lime juice, oregano and pepper. I get lots of squash, which usually gets made into baby food. I also get some veggies at work, from a freind with a big garden.

Ryan and I made a pact to stop eating out so much....since we both work full time, its really hard to get dinner on the table every night, but we have broken the habit! Now, when chicken goes on sale for $1.78/pound, we buy 10-15 pounds, and freeze individual dinners: Seasoned chicken, chicken fajita strips, cut up chicken or whole breasts...so its really easy to pull something out and bake it. When extra lean ground beef goes on sale...we buy lots for the freezer. When I make spaghetti, I make 3 sauces and freeze 2. When pot roast goes on sale 1.99/pound, we get a bunch for the freezer. So we always have meals, and they are always super cheap:) We cut up all our fruit and veggies so they are ready in the fridge for the next meal.

I just made baked spaghetti from left over beef, threw it in the fridge, and will bake it so its ready when Ryan gets off work. All while Casey is napping. No eating out!!