Okay, so this may look like an ordinary cardboard box to you. One with LifeSavers inside as per the label. But in reality, it is but a repurposed container for the unexpected. That's not actually for candy. (I know, this is confusing. Read on.)
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| Don't be fooled by the outside. |
It's here, it's here! My first delivery ever from Washington's Green Grocer. You may be wondering what WGG is. Well I'll tell ya. (Or you can read about it on their website. That would save me a lot of time.) It's a local couple who gets in a bunch of produce from nearby, and a little less nearby, consolidates it and dispenses the fruit and veggie love to those in DC, MD and VA. Seeing as one of my goals (I prefer to not think of it as a "resolution" as most are abandoned by last Tuesday) for 2012 is to eat more veggies, I thought this would help me out.
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| When I opened the box! Joy! Christmas in January! (For a vegetarian, that is.) |
Oh yeah. All that is mine! Delivered right to my door. Well, to the alcove outside my building's front door where I picked it up and carried it up a flight of stairs to my front door and then inside. (We have security you know, so they can't get to my actual front door without a hammer and a bad attitude.) But WGG will deliver to condos just as easily as single family homes or townhouses because it's not their fault you live in one of the most expensive zip codes in the US and can't afford anything bigger than a shoe box. Plus, if someone really wants to steal a heavy box of vegetables from my place, seriously, what can I do about that? Would you actually call the police about a scary arugula thief? I didn't think so. (Though I might...)
Before I tell you what was in there, I'll tell you why I picked this place over some other local agriculture places for my first try. 1.) They do this year round by getting produce from here and there. I live in VA where winter isn't really farming season. So if you go with just one farm in driving distance, you can only get things that grow in your backyard right at that moment from about May to October. Not a bad thing, but hey, it's January. 2.) Some of those farms also make you buy a share or half share and you get deliveries every single week. If I had a family of four, well sure, I could maybe go through all those carrots, turnips and squash I'd get. But my family is of one. Me. WGG will do on demand. You can order a box to be delivered every week, every other week or whenever you feel like it. Can even mix it up like two weeks in a row and then not for two weeks. You just add the dates into your queue. I wanted to see how much produce came in a box and how long it would take me to go through it. I can cook and freeze some of it, so I'm guessing I may get a couple/few weeks from this. So with WGG, if I want another box in two weeks, I can do it. Or three weeks, that might be perfect. Guess time will tell.
Here's the read down of what was in the small organic box for this week:
5 Yukon Gold potatoes (PA)
1 container of grape tomatoes (FL)
2 stalks of broccoli (CA)
5 beets (PA)
3 Cara Cara oranges (FL)
3 D'Anjou pears (WA)
3 Fuji apples (WA)
4 bananas (SA)
3 kiwi (CA)
2 portobello mushrooms (PA)
1 large bunch of arugula (CA)
1 bunch of romaine (CA)
(Note: They will send you a tentative list a few days before so you can decide if you're on demand like me and then you get a firmed up list a day or two before, so you can get really excited and start dreaming up dishes. They also have a never list with your account. So if there is something you really hate, you can check it on the list and they will make sure not to have that in your delivery. Ever. Also, they have other various items like eggs and cheeses, meats and breads that you can add in for additional charges. It's insane, this variety! I'm so happy.)
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| Second layer. So much stuff in there! |
I don't know about you, but $37.00 for that entire box of all organic produce seemed like a really good deal to me. And I didn't even have to leave the house for it. (I know, minus carrying it up from the entry way. Do you have to be so literal?) So now I'm trying to think of what to make with all these beautiful, nutrition-packed, pesticide-free food items. How I can combine a couple of the ingredients into one dish - like the beets and arugula. Oranges and banana. Broccoli and kiwi. (Just checking to see if you were really reading this carefully.)
I'll let you know what I come up with. Don't change that dial! (If you're too young to know what that means, it's okay, you're probably not my target audience.)
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