Food

Ahh, a topic very close to my heart. Thursday I picked up our last "winter" CSA box from our Live Earth Farm dropsite, and this Friday our "regular" season CSA - Two Small Farms - will begin dropping off 35-40 boxes on our front porch. This will be our third year with TSF, and a lot has changed.

The last time we were signed up for LEF's winter CSA share, I was pregnant with Samuel. We ended up canceling our membership because the thought of eating anything green made me want to puke. After we received another box with a ridiculous amount of greens - three bunches of kale, a bunch of collards, a bunch of chard, the list goes on... I dropped all of the greens off at David's house (destined to be eaten by the chickens) and headed to Safeway to buy myself a bag of BBQ Baked Lays (ok, I probably made Steve go buy them).

Three and a half years later, where are we?

Samuel: As an infant Samuel's favorite things to eat were greens. Until he was 1 year old, he didn't eat much of anything, but leafy greens were definitely his favorite. From 18 months - 2 years old, he would eat ANYTHING.

Then "2" happened. Given his choice, two year old Samuel would subsist on nothing but fruit and cheese quesadillas (with whole wheat tortillas and local, organic raw cheese, mind you!)

But now! I'm so excited! Now that we seem to have come out the other side of "2", real food is back in vogue! He happily eats whatever we are having for dinner (tonight - fish tacos with cabbage, avocados and homemade black beans - no Maura, I didn't make the tortillas tonight, does it count if I put them in the toaster?)

Shira: This girl loves her food. She will take down just about anything we put in front of her. Except oatmeal. What baby likes lacinato kale and fish tacos, but doesn't like oatmeal?

Steve: Three and a half years ago when I got pregnant with Samuel I sent Steve out to buy a bunch of what he calls "brown stuff", also known as "whole grains". Now, he eats oatmeal with flaxseed for breakfast every morning, and doesn't roll his eyes when we have vegetables, vegetables and more vegetables for dinner every night.

Me: No more prepared food. I cook every meal of the day for all of us. I am a little afraid I have become one of those people whose house you dread eating at because it's all nutty and grainy. I am going to relegate Shira and Samuel to be those kids who have the "weird" lunch and a mom who won't let them eat anything good? I grew up with Hostess Cupcakes and soda in my lunch.

I have to go now because Steve is annoyed at me for blogging during Amazing Race :)