Our Final Month of CSA Boxes

 In writing up my final post today I realized I must have forgotten to photograph one box somewhere along the way as I recounted our pick up days and found that we have had 17 Thursday pick-ups but I only have 16 photos. I'm betting there was zucchini, and corn, and tomatoes... and more of the same! LOL.  All in all this program was well worth the $500 it cost us at the start of the year as I feel 100% confident that buying this much produce over the span of 17 weeks would have cost me more than $500. 

I feel like we did real well with minimizing food waste too and actually used 99% of what we were given. That said I think if we were to participate again next year I'd drop us down to the 1/2 share size only because the vast majority of the vegetables were only eaten by my husband and myself. And it really started to feel like a job to find something to do with the produce before it went bad. 

Box 12: Corn on the cob, zucchini, butternut squash, green beans, mini potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers and garlic. 

We ate the corn as a side with dinner and I roasted the garlic (along with another clove we had at home). 

I like to keep a mini jar of roasted garlic in the fridge.

We used the potatoes and green beans as a side one night and the butternut squash another. We used the tomatoes in various dishes like this sausage tomato cream pasta one from Momfessionals.

Box 13-- A dozen corn, more tomatoes, green beans, zucchini/squash, honey nut squash, & broccoli.

We served the corn and broccoli at Evan's birthday party and used the green beans and honey nut squash as a side dish one night. I used the tomatoes to make some more marinara along with the tomatoes leftover from last week. We cut up the zucchini/squash with some onions and mushrooms to eat as a side with breakfasts and lunches. 

Box #14-- Mini and large orange/yellow tomatoes, radishes, butternut swash, zucchini, peppers, and 12 ears of corn. 

I shucked the corn and froze it in small batches for use throughout the fall and winter. We used the radishes in our salad and I ate the small tomatoes as snacks here and there. The larger tomatoes were used for BLT sandwiches and we roasted the butternut squash to go with our pot roast. 

Box #15-- corn, green beans, tomatoes-- lg and small, zucchini, radishes, peppers, acorn squash & spaghetti squash.

The green beans were used that very night as a side dish with dinner (I was more focused on the orange chicken but you can see the green beans in the bottom of the photo).

I made up more marinara with the large tomatoes and some large ones we had left from last week. We had the corn with dinner and I made a corn and zucchini casserole with the leftover corn mixed with the zucchini. 

Another night I made stuffed acorn squash for my husband and I. I used the spaghetti squash for myself the night the family had spaghetti and marinara. 

Box #16 (though it was really the 17th box we picked up)-- Our last box was a cardboard box so we didn't have to worry about returning it and it was stuffed!   12 more ears of corn, a couple butternut squash, some more honeynut squash, radishes, large and small tomatoes, lettuce, and banana peppers. 

I immediately cut up the lettuce and radishes to add to our salads and cooked 2 ears of corn for the boys. The other 10 ears we saved for the weekend when Alec was home and we made steak fajitas to go with it (I had chick pea fajita rice instead.  I ate the small tomatoes for snacking. 

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