I’m really sorry I haven’t had time to post anything recently. I’ve got a huge deadline this Thursday. Chris and I have both been working our tails off to make it.
Here’s one tip for now about CSA meal planning – order pizza. I’m serious! The day you get your box, spend all your energy sorting and prepping the produce and planning your week. You won’t want to cook after all that, so order pizza or make a frozen dinner or something else really easy that everybody loves. At most, serve a fresh salad on the side. Or even go out.
Putting all your Wednesday (or Tuesday) energy into dealing with the week’s produce instead of cooking Wednesday supper is the key to Thursday’s supper going well. And Friday’s. And Saturday’s…well, you get the idea.
I’ll be back soon with more. In the meantime, here are some older posts that I hope you find useful.
thoughtful consumption 
Thanks for all of your posts! You have been a real inspiration and I just got my first Farm Fresh delivery this week.
I have one question, do you have any advice to your readers on how to identify what you receive in your box? I know they provide a list but for some of us newbie’s it is still kind of hard. I think I got some mustard greens but they don’t look like any pictures I see online 🙂
Thanks again and hope you meet your deadline today!
Erika
Thanks for reading! Two tips:
1. When you’re searching online, include the word “variety.” Then you’re more likely to get hits that focus on rarer types.
2. Taste it! With mustard greens, there should be no doubt. I do this with herbs a lot, too.
Enjoy!
Susan
We just joined the CSA as well and I noticed that the box contents are taped to the side of the box. You can also visit the website to see what is on the menu for the week!
[…] I also try to do a bunch of prepping this day. At least, I try to get one thing done. This is actually a trick I pull on myself. If I get one thing done, I’m really likely to keep going and get several things done. And I think it’s way more efficient to do lots of prepping in one batch with one kitchen cleanup at the end. If things are already washed and ready to go, I’m so much more likely to use them. (More about Wednesdays.) […]