June 27th, 2008 - The CSA Advantage
I was right about the CSA: I’ll eat vegetables they give us that I’d normally never buy at the farmer’s market nor plant in my own garden. It’s happened already, with only two weeks of food. They gave us radishes. I’ve never liked radishes and only eat them if they are part of a salad. I’d never put them in a salad I was making just for myself.
If others are around to eat them, that is. But since the radishes are here and no else will eat them and I don’t want them wasted, and one small radish in a salad isn’t noticeable, I’ve been willingly eating radishes for two weeks! Not all of them, mind you. I gave two bunches to Sean and Elissa. I also gave them the “braising greens” from last week. I still don’t have the courage to even try eating cooked greens. But if we get more this week, I’ll do it. I may as well try it when they are free. (I know, I’m paying $21/week averaged over an entire year for this food so it isn’t free. But I feel that way because I wouldn’t have paid for it and they’d be given away otherwise and I wouldn’t miss them if they hadn’t been in the weekly bag. So they are a freebie.)