My Produce Challenge

So, as you may recall, one of my weekly goals was to use all of the produce from our half-share of produce. Here is what we received in this "half" share:

• three tomatoes
• three zucchini
• two cucumbers
• one pineapple
• 5 apples
• 5 pears
• celery
  
• two avacados
• four lemons
• bok choy
• red leaf lettuce
• spinach
• kale
• one pound of carrots
• one kiwi
• about seven bananas
• grape tomatoes
• parsley
• three oranges
• two grapefruits
  
• two sweet potatoes

YES! THAT MUCH FOOD! It cost me $47, by the way, and it's all organic.

First, I decided that I needed to make some smoothies. Perhaps I could actually get the boys to drink them...

I kept adding more which was a good idea up until I decided to throw in an entire grapefruit...
Yes, the darn grapefruit took over the entire batch of smoothies. I'll omit that step next time and have a more salable produce.

Since I seriously dislike zucchinis I decided to...drum roll please...FRY THEM! I served zucchini latkes with dinner last night. Ryan ate two. That's impressive...so basically, they weren't so bad...definitely the way to go with this veggie around here...at least until I work up the nerve to try to shred it and sell it as a pasta replacement.

The other veggie that I don't really care for is cucumber. They're just boring. I used them and the tomatoes to make tabouleh this morning. Now I have lunch for the rest of the week; however, there is little chance that R or B will enjoy it with me :(
Tonight I'll just serve a salad and some chicken soup I have in the freezer. I'll throw in some frozen croissants for good measure...and because I'm out of flour for the much-preferred homemade bread.

Tomorrow I'll serve kale chips (VERY excited about this,) ragu bolognese, and polenta. The polenta will replace pasta since I served that last night and am running low. Oh, and the bolognese sauce will include several veggies and my ground deer meat.

I will still have so much produce to use! I guess I can juice the oranges for B and force feed him the apples and pears. I have already frozen half of the pineapple. More ideas to come!