i joined a CSA

CSA week #1

check it out folks i joined a CSA (community-supported agriculture). i've always wanted to try one to help me branch out from the habit of buying the same produce week after week. so when maude's market advertised that they were doing a weekly buyers club i suggested to hubby that we give it a try. we signed up for a two person share at $30 a week, and as the hubby was quick to point out, that only leaves me $30 for everything else i might need. this is gonna be interesting. so let's do this week's totals breakdown.

maude's market CSA week #1: $30

loaf of bread

two locally made cookies

oyster mushrooms

1 lb. ground bison meat

dozen large eggs

spaghetti squash

tatsoi (that's the green stuff in the bottom right corner)

wholefoods

(still gotta go there for a few things)

organic milk (got milk twice this week) $7.50

3 organic pink lady apples $2.76

5 lb bag organic white flour $4.99

miscellaneous items not pictured

organic carrots $2.00

pretzels $2.29

flour $1.99

organic yogurt $4.19

rice vinegar $1.69

that all equals about $58 (+/- tax). this morning i sauteed the tatsoi in a bit of butter and we ate that with scrambled egg and my homemade toast with butter and jam. lunch was a pb&j sandwich using the bread shown above, organic strawberry jam, and locally made peanut butter. for dinner this evening i had homemade pasta with the last of the jarred spaghetti sauce topped with capers, the last of the cheddar cheese, and 1/2 of this weeks CSA oyster mushrooms that were sauteed in butter, all served over some salad greens we still have left over from last week.

well i think that gets me caught up on everything as of now. so i am off to watch the first disc of the third season of dexter. also on the agenda for the next couple of days is researching soil mixtures for seed starting. the last couple of years i have been using vermiculite and peat moss, but now that i have learn they're bad for the environment, i need to figure out something new to use. it certainly is weird to think about starting seeds already with snow hanging out in the backyard. but, it must be done.