I looked into a CSA here awhile back, but some emails got lost and when I realized I had to come up with the money the next day. It was $224 for a half share, picked up every other week.

I couldn't tell if that meant you got what would equal a full share that covers two weeks or what.

But at the time it was too expensive.

However there's a nice grower's market on Wednesdays I try to go to. Not only do they have veggies (although lately it's just been greens) but bread, hand made soap, eggs, grass fed beef and goat, and milk.

Steph, I was a complete plastic faced goof that day. Couldn't keep my face still!

KC has a shitton of CSA's, but I don't think we can afford a share. There's a small Wednesday afternoon farmer's market run by a former co-worker biology teacher that I like, a Saturday market about 8 blocks from my house that I'll have to check out, and, of course, the ginormous downtown market on weekends. I totally splurge on tomatoes, homebaked breads and preserves and peaches and berries in the summer.

I also found a CSA that sells meats and has delivery dates at a high school 5 blocks from my house. It's .30 extra/lb if you're not a member, but it would be worth it for some bacon, pork chops, brats and chicken. The free range chicken is $5, and since we only need a 1.5 lb. bird, that is doable occasionally!

Hmm. It's chilly here today. I got a pink ombre pashmina yesterday at Pier 1 for $14, and I feel like season 4 Buffy!

I cleaned out the fridge, had to toss half the produce bin and two tubberware things of leftovers. bad food management this week. work provide lunch two days and it threw me off. oh well. on to this week. I am going to cook up some more pasta to go with the sauce I still have. some rice to go with another can of Indian food and I think dinner one night will be tomato soup with grilled cheese.

I need to buy more salad greens and some cabbage to make slaw. Maybe I'll get some chicken into some marinade tonight also and cook it up tomorrow night.

If calling Timothy Hutton a sexy bitch counts.

Mmmm, it does. And he is.

I bought some grass fed ground beef a couple weeks ago at the farmer's market and didn't eat it until this past week.

I was going to make burgers but I ended up using it in pasta sauce. It was so good and really held the flavor through the pasta sauce (Mario Batali's brand which is tasty). And I used whole wheat or whole grain pasta. I noticed that I ate a bit slower than normal to savor how tasty it was and also I felt full faster. I'm going to chalk that up to the slower eating and the whole wheat pasta.

I'm trying to eat healthier and so far my goal is to cook and eat something healthy for part of the week and then try for fast easy (yet healthy) options at the end of the week.

I've subscribed to the Clean Eating Magazine and made quite a few recipes most of them I liked.

But I wish I could find a healty cookbook geared towards 1 or 2 people.

Dammit, St. Louis has 4 Trader Joe's. Why can't Kansas City have just one?

Erin, that sucks. If I could, I'd send you one of ours.

The food discussions here directly inspired what I'm planning to cook and eat over the next week. I've noticed that I really don't feel all that great when I eat too much refined sugar and flour. Plus, I find them incredibly addictive.

I bought fingerling potatoes and quartered them, tossed them with a 1/4 cup of olive oil, two heaping tbsns of minced garlic, and a stalk of fresh rosemary and lots of pepper. Roasted open at 440 for an hour, and OMG they were SO SO GOOD. I could have eaten a lot more.

I will be having a veggie based dinner this week, featuring those potatoes with a little creme fraiche on the side and a spin salad. NOM NOM NOM.

I have nothing to eat. I should have gone grocery shopping, but I didn't. I mean, I could have pasta and broccoli and butter, I guess.

I am thinking of ordering chinese food, but thanks to all y'all, I want green leafy things, and I ate all that yesterday.

It cuteness news, my kitty has taken to "loafing" on a pile of pillows. She looks like "The Princess and the Pea".

I am noticing that, over the past 3 days of no gluten, my blood sugar is all wonky. It drops like a stone about 3 hours after eating, which never happens to me.

The internets tell me, anecdotally, that such a phenomenon is not uncommon when someone gives up gluten. But, you know, just knowing that it isn't uncommon doesn't really make me feel better, damn it.

Tonight's dinner is rice bowls (rice [duh], refried beans, salsa, whatever else is in the fridge that looks good), and if any rice is leftover, I'm going to make it into sticky rice with mango.