BREAKFAST: We finished the Honey Nut Cheerios & milk & I drank the last of my coffee.
LUNCH: Husband & I each ate leftovers, & we made our kids' lunches (sometime we need share ideas about packing healthy school lunches--challenge!)
DINNER: Since I had to start dinner prior to the CSA evening pickup using what was still left from last week, it was not my most stellar meal: Curried Split Pea Soup, to which I added eggplant, mustard greens, & Swiss chard, all chopped. I added the greens too soon & they were overcooked, but I'll blend the soup to make up for it. A box of Jiffy corn bread rounded out the meal (more not-quite-eliminated processed food, but oh so easy!)
Once we were at the dinner table, though, reality set in. I ate my soup alone, and Alan served himself and the kids leftover pasta & sauteed veggies he'd made yesterday.
Tonight's CSA pickup will dictate this week's menu: one head each of bok choy, purple cabbage, & red leaf lettuce; four purple peppers (never seen those before!); three turnips; rainbow chard. And Alan bought me some more coffee beans at Zeke's, our local roastery.
While we pay for our CSA all at once each winter, it breaks down to about $20 a week, so with the coffee stop (for which Alan has no receipt--said I can look it up when the credit card bill comes :), we're up to about $40 this week, but we'll need to buy groceries soon.
However, I didn't stop at 7-11 today--I even resisted buying a pack of oreos from the vending machine at work because I knew I was going to be keeping track. :)
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