I think this may have been the first in a very long time there were not strawberries in our boxes of free chicken scraps. This time around it was mostly water melon, cantaloup and apples. Plus a few grapes. Kind of a snooze fest of you ask me.
In the summer Mr. Produce Guy was giving us 4 to 5 boxes a week full of all sorts of produce. But the last few weeks there have been only 3 boxes. I’m guessing it’s a seasonal thing. I suppose the chances of getting boxes of sweet potatoes and cranberries for Thanksgiving are pretty slim. But we’ll see.
A lot of the watermelon didn’t look so great, so we decided to give it to the chickens instead. The papaya could have been salvaged, but Black Fatty loves them to so we decided to toss it her was as well.
Here is what we decided to keep-
- Grapes {for lunch snacks}
- Melon {for breakfast}
- Lettuce {for taco night}
- 1 pear {snack}
- Giant owl of apples {for homemade applesauce}
Free food? I’ll take it, any day of the week! But my fingers are totally crossed for free cranberries and yams next time. Ha!
Peace Out Girl Scouts, have a great day. Now go forth and find some scraps!
~Mavis
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Lissa says
Yes, no strawberries the last couple weeks in my boxes either. Totally bummed as I usually just got enough each week to snack on – not the zillions of pounds to figure out what to do with that you did! But a couple months ago I DID get about 10lb of sweet potatoes – so you might get some, you never know. 🙂
This week:
2 heads romaine + 5 hearts of romaine (I love snacking on plain romaine hearts!)
1 head green leaf lettuce
~4 heads of bok choy (I have a great simple sauteed recipe)
5 stalks celery (snacking + broth)
7 roma tomatoes (added to last week = batch of tomato sauce to make beef bolognose)
6 radishes (salads)
4 red peppers (snacking)
1 bunch green onions (?)
I sure wish I was getting all the apples you are! Still waiting for prices to go down in the store to less than $0.99/lb – sheesh!