Comments on: The Birth of a Pragmatist or more thoughts on the whole grocery thing http://vanderbrew.com/rutabagadreams/2008/03/14/the-birth-of-a-pragmatist-or-more-thoughts-on-the-whole-grocery-thing/ Live Simply ~ Laugh Often ~ Love Deeply Mon, 21 May 2012 21:13:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: amber http://vanderbrew.com/rutabagadreams/2008/03/14/the-birth-of-a-pragmatist-or-more-thoughts-on-the-whole-grocery-thing/#comment-152596 amber Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:39:10 +0000 http://vanderbrew.com/rutabagadreams/2008/03/14/the-birth-of-a-pragmatist-or-more-thoughts-on-the-whole-grocery-thing/#comment-152596 Sarah - That's very interesting about the price differences! Squash right now is not really a good price right now around here. It will be much better in a couple months - at least half the price, if not less. I'd be pretty happy not eating any meat either, except when I'm pregnant. For some reason, pregnancy turns makes me crave meat. I guess it is my body responding to the increased need for protein. My brother hasn't really found any good solutions for the whole fruits and veggies thing. His diet is lousy, and while he recognizes that he isn't motivated enough to try and do anything about it. The most he does is supplements with vitamins and nutritional drinks. I'm not sure how effective that is though, really. I find it amazing that he does as well as he does, health-wise, considering what he eats! I know I certainly couldn't... Valerie - I hadn't heard of Newcastle Produce - I'll have to check that out! Thanks for the recommendation. The farmers markets up here are pretty pathetic though (at least compared to what I used to go to in the Bay Area), and they don't start until mid-May. Perhaps I'll have to check out the ones down towards Auburn and such if I can work it into my schedule. I haven't started any seeds yet - I don't have anywhere protected to try and start them in flats, and the weather is still too unsettled to start them outdoors. We actually had snow today, believe it or not! It wasn't much, but it was cold enough to stick on the ground for at least a couple of hours. It was only 36 deg. outside about an hour ago, so we'll probably get a freeze tonight. I'm thinking I might try some seeds in the ground in another three weeks or so. I'm hoping by then they'll be ok. However, all my fall veggies that went dormant in the snow and such are growing like gangbusters and my garlic and green onions are coming up well. I will probably be able to start harvesting off of the fall greens again in another week or two. We also planted bare root strawberries on Tuesday, so we should hopefully get some strawberries this summer. Do you have a garden in yet? Sarah - That’s very interesting about the price differences! Squash right now is not really a good price right now around here. It will be much better in a couple months - at least half the price, if not less. I’d be pretty happy not eating any meat either, except when I’m pregnant. For some reason, pregnancy turns makes me crave meat. I guess it is my body responding to the increased need for protein. My brother hasn’t really found any good solutions for the whole fruits and veggies thing. His diet is lousy, and while he recognizes that he isn’t motivated enough to try and do anything about it. The most he does is supplements with vitamins and nutritional drinks. I’m not sure how effective that is though, really. I find it amazing that he does as well as he does, health-wise, considering what he eats! I know I certainly couldn’t…

Valerie - I hadn’t heard of Newcastle Produce - I’ll have to check that out! Thanks for the recommendation. The farmers markets up here are pretty pathetic though (at least compared to what I used to go to in the Bay Area), and they don’t start until mid-May. Perhaps I’ll have to check out the ones down towards Auburn and such if I can work it into my schedule.

I haven’t started any seeds yet - I don’t have anywhere protected to try and start them in flats, and the weather is still too unsettled to start them outdoors. We actually had snow today, believe it or not! It wasn’t much, but it was cold enough to stick on the ground for at least a couple of hours. It was only 36 deg. outside about an hour ago, so we’ll probably get a freeze tonight. I’m thinking I might try some seeds in the ground in another three weeks or so. I’m hoping by then they’ll be ok. However, all my fall veggies that went dormant in the snow and such are growing like gangbusters and my garlic and green onions are coming up well. I will probably be able to start harvesting off of the fall greens again in another week or two. We also planted bare root strawberries on Tuesday, so we should hopefully get some strawberries this summer. Do you have a garden in yet?

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