First off I would like to tell you what we have left of week one.  We have 2 tomatoes, 2 pears, 1 broccoli crown, 2lbs of butter ball potatoes, and a little bit of lettuce.  You might be wondering what happened to the coconut.  With much effort we opened it and drank the water and ate the flesh.  Nothing spectacular and not really worth the effort that it took.

Yesterday I picked up the second basket.  I was amazed at how different it turned out to be.  I was afraid I would end up with more broccoli, more asparagus, and another coconut.  Here is the inventory of what we received this week.

1 lb spinach               1 pineapple                   1.15lbs green beans

7 cucumbers              8 apples                        7 bananas

10 oranges                3 turnips                        3 yellow mangoes

1 acorn squash         2 yellow squash             4 tomatoes

This week if I had bought all of this at the grocery store it would have cost me $41.79.  This is a significant savings especially when I only spent $16.50.  I’m really excited to see the pineapple in the basket.  My family loves to eat fresh pineapple (I could eat it all by myself).  We have already consumed the mangoes.  I was really disappointed when I started peeling and chopping the mangoes because one was too ripe and had to be thrown away.  I think that I’m going to have a difficult time using all of the cucumbers.  I have never cooked a turnip so that will be the challenge this week.

So far this experiment has really helped put me in a different mindset.  I used to plan our meals base around what kind of protein we had in our freezer.  Now instead of protein I’m planning it around what fruits and veggies are in the fridge and need to be used up.  This past week I have consumed more fruits and veggies than I have had all winter long.  I’ll keep you posted on what happens this week.