Comments on: Menu Planning with Your CSA or Organic Veggie Delivery

By: Alana Johnson

Alana Johnson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:47:21 +0000

I just had to comment on this topic – I was running into the same problem, and finally decided to make a CSA meal planner to deal with this issue:

http://mealplanner.EatRealGood.com

I hope this is helpful for folks. You just enter the produce you are getting in your vegbox, and the meal planner will bring back recipes that use your veggies efficiently. You can refine your search for vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, crockpot meals, and 5 ingredients or less recipes.

Check it out!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:17:21 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone. The service I use is called Organics to You (http://organicstoyou.org), which I believe is just here in Portland. It’s good to here that there are similar services in other parts of the country, too!

Marcie, one thing I did a while ago was make a list of all the meals we like to eat. That way, whenever I thought, “there’s nothing I want to eat!”, I could look at the list and say, “Oh yeah, I can make spaghetti or tortilla espanola or . . . .” If I were you and had a husband like yours, I might make stuff like potatoes au gratin, baked potatoes, and macaroni and cheese as main courses, and then serve salads or veggies on the side. A meat eater could add meat to those, and everyone could pick and choose how much of everything to eat. So you could still eat a huge salad and a little potatoes, but your husband could eat a bunch of meat and potatoes and just a little (or no) salad.

Maybe our readers have some other ideas for you!

By: Marcie

Marcie — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:43:18 +0000

I also receive produce delivery (every other week) and find myself wasting some of it. As a vegetarian from a meat-and-potatoes family, I have difficulty developing simple meals since I don’t eat most of what I was raised on. Having a carb-heavy veggie-lite husband only makes this duty more difficult. Any suggestions on expanding my basic list of meals that can be adjusted to fit different eating styles?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:50:10 +0000

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By: exhale. return to center.

exhale. return to center. — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:19:33 +0000

i can totally relate to your friend “glee”. the first year we did a csa, we wasted so many veggies. (well not totally wasted – we fed them to our chickens!) but each year gets easier.

have you seen the cookbook asparagus to zucchini — so many great ideas for using and preserving fresh produce!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:19:47 +0000

do you use Door to Door organics? that’s what I use and really like it!

By: Alexa

Alexa — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:12:35 +0000

Hi,
I was wondering, how do you get a box of organic veggies delivered to your door? That sounds awesome. I didn’t see the info on your grocery shopping entry.
thanks!