food and how to eat it
Have you heard of the Good Food Box? They throw a bunch of fruit and vegetables into a box, which you buy, and then take home with you, presumably to eat. Here’s this month’s haul:
This cost $15 for the food itself, plus $1.50 for the privilege of ordering online, and then throw in another $2.75 for the O-train ride over to Carleton, where I picked up my box. Reasonable deal, probably comparable to what you might pay at a proper produce store, and I guess it could be argued that you’d spend that money on exactly the items you wanted there, as opposed to the grab-bag of mystery items that come along with the Good Food Box. (For instance, cauliflower – an offensive vegetable if there ever was one.)
But the winner today was the tomatoes, an item not typically purchased here at the Awesome household. Three of ‘em were included in the box, so what else could I do but make spaghetti sauce?
So. Good. Like, proper italian restaurant twelve-bucks-a-plate good. Do yourself a favor and whip that stuff up next time you have a few tomatoes, a bit of garlic, and some olive oil around. Totally bitchin’.
Cauliflower is sooooooo good. Unlike zuchinni. And tomatos are good raw. I thought the Good food box program is for poor students – are you posing as a poor student?
Yeah, the program is promoted around Carleton campus as a “hey, you’re a student at a crappy school, so you have no money now and will never have any” program.
Their website talks more about the Box as an opportunity to support local farmers (sort of) and diversify your diet, which is where it’s at for me. Hopefully my $15 gives the program a boost in other ways, too.