Localvore

We have apparently brainwashed Lillian. It started out simply with discussion and emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables and eating healthy. We try to stay away from HFCS and partially hydrogenated oils. The fast food restaurants she has visited Moe's and Chipotle. She asks me to read the labels on packages to make sure there is no bad things in it. And if there are, she quickly wants to put them back on the shelf.

We belong to a local CSA, Double T Farm, and get our weekly allotment each Saturday. She loves to nibble the produce. In fact, this week we received fennel and she nearly ate an entire bulb by herself, raw. Actually she prefers her veggies raw. As I am writing this, she is nibbling on a piece of raw corn.

Sunday she asked to got the big farmers market to look at the plants. While we were there, we bought some blueberries and blackberries. In the car this morning, she was eating some of the blueberries and exclaimed, "These are the best blueberries ever!" I said they probably tasted so good because they were fresh, grown from a local farmer. Then she screamed, "I know. That's because local food is best mommy, right?"

This was our produce from Double T a few weeks ago:

This is/was our first tomato out of our little garden for the season. I was transplanting some mint and Lillian said the tomato was ripe and could she pick it. I said sure and she came over to me eating it! The whole thing was gone in a minute.