sustainable sustenance

One of the less interesting and mildly grumpy-making exercises following a trip (any trip, but especially a trip abroad) is assessing the financial damage.I'm going over not only my expenses from Ireland and England but also the expenses from the past six months in general, and I have begun to realize that food -- both eating out and groceries -- makes up the bulk of my expenses. We can all acknowledge that I love my vittles and that it often shows, and I think that I need to cut back on the amount I spend in feeding my frame.

What's fun about this is one of my most recent serious food investments. No, not the George Foreman "Insert Long and Silly Name Here" Grill, but the joint account that Captain Boyfriend and I have opened with Stillman's Community Sustained Agriculture farm ("Conscientiously Grown"). Every Saturday at noon, one or the other of us (it's worked out that he's here those weekends I'm not, and I'm not those weekends he is...get it?) will troop down to a parking lot in JP and pick up our organically grown box-o-veg for the week. This week was a box-o-:

• Lettuce
• a Tomato
• Swiss Chard
• Squash
• Sugar Snap Peas
• Arugula
• Stringbeans
• Cucumbers
• 4 ears of corn
• and...BLUEBERRIES!!

Just FYI, in case for whatever reason some people remember, I did used to hate blueberries as a child. I don't anymore. They rocked on the waffles this morning.

So we get all of this, with varying types of produce, every Saturday (approx. 4 times) for 4 months. $300/16 = $18.75. Considering we're splitting the cost but often eating the food together, I'm paying around $9 for that much fresh, healthy food. Something tells me that Community Sustained Agriculture might just be the way to go.

See? Yum. Blueberries. My blueberries.-------------->










<----------And my sugar snaps. Green with envy, aren't you?