This fantastic article from the blog Lymes and Lycopene by Sydney nutritionist Kathryn Elliot, and subscriber to Food Connect Sydney, shows you how to use your food box. She gives some really great tips on efficiencies, planning and cooking techniques to make sure none of your gorgeous organic, local produce goes to waste.
I’ve just recently I’ve started subscribing to a weekly fruit and vegetable box. It’s a CSA scheme, where you don’t get any choice. Instead, each Monday a box of in-season fruit and vegetables, grown within 5 hours of Sydney, is delivered.
I’m loving it. The produce is fresh, each week I’m getting something new and there have even been some surprises in the box – produce I’ve never tasted.
But making the best use of a vegetable box, is a challenge which requires a slightly different approach to meal planning. Rather than starting from a recipe and then compiling a shopping list, it’s the produce which directs your cooking.
Read the whole article here
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