Teresa's Blog

We started receiving our CSA box this past week, CSA - Community Supported Agriculture.  We chose EatWell Farms based on proximity (so the food would would travel a shorter distance to get to us, more sustainable), use of organics, and also because they have an option to add on eggs - we have opted for 6 a week.  We picked up our first box last week on Wednesday.  The pick up place is at someone’s house not more than 1 mile from our place.  We were encouraged to bring bags to transfer our food into and to leave our box at the site so we did. We brought home: strawberries, mixed asian greens, spinach, lettuce, bok choy, chard, radishes, sweet potatoes, grapefruit, carrots and green garlic - the boxes are pre-made, everyone gets the same thing.  Quite a colorful and delicious spread.  This meant for many more food meals and less blended meals which I think Elliott enjoyed.  We only breakfast and recovery shakes.  The veg came with a great newsletter with a couple of recipes that was very helpful.  The box also suggest the order to eat the food which was helpful so that the more sensitive things didn’t go bad. We ate the asian mixed greens Saturday night in a gorgeous salad.  About halfway through I spotted something moving on my plate.  Being a city girl I am not sure I can properly identify the salad stowaway.  If I had to guess I would say it was the smallest caterpillar ever to have lived.  It was tiny, couldn’t hurt a soul.  It was white and mostly opaque, although may have been a bit translucent I think.  This ended the salad eating all together for Elliott.  I decided to follow suit except I did pick out my carrots and radish.  So far we haven’t found anything else alive in our veg. I have been working to be flexible with the sweet potatoes.  Since we started our new diet we have avoided what most Paleo types call starchy tubers.  I was determined to eat these veggies that made their way into our house without stressing about the carb content.  I think I have done ok, although with all of the food meals I do feel not quite as light this week.  It is either the potatoes, the possible mis-calculation of fat (which is harder with whole food meals), or all in my head. I am excited for next week although also a little scared that the box may be a exact replica of this week and the magic and excitement may wear off.  If that happens we will resolve to find new recipes for these fresh veggies and continue to try this new piece of our healthy, local eating.