Showing posts with label grocery shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grocery shopping. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Grocery Shopping the car-free way!


Produce was something that I sometimes struggle with with our car-free life. I try to go to the store as little as possible - so fresh produce can be a struggle.

My friend told me about the Klesick Family Farm, they deliver fresh organic produce to your door on a weekly basis. This is a picture of what came in our box last week for $30, the honey was a gift for signing up.

I love this. I would love to be a part of a CSA, but I can't go pick up the box each week, so this works out so well for our family. I have also wanted to limit ourselves to organic produce, and this allows us to do that without analyzing the prices at the store.

It also forces me to try new things and create new recipes in the kitchen (which I love to do). We had lots of red peppers last week, so I tried a Roasted Red Pepper soup - it was really good!

Can't wait to see what's in the box this week!

Monday, August 25, 2008

Car-free Grocery Shopping

We had a Saturday night shopping trip with the whole family. Jason rode his xtracycle, Joshua rode his little BMX bike, and I pulled Delia in the trailer. I don't know how many trailer-pulling trips I have left in me before the baby comes, but we had a great time!
Jason fit most everything in the Xtracyle and I took a couple of bags in the trailer.


We set all the food on the table so you could see how much we were able to bring home. It reminded me of the book Hungry Planet - where the authors traveled around the world taking a picture of different families in many different countries with the food they eat for a week. I found the book fascinating and depressing.

A family from Chad.

A family from North Carolina.
You can see more families here.
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