Veggie box tales: Getting back in

Once more I am subscribed to a veggie box. I get the small box, which comes every other week. I originally started off with the large one, but that was way too much for me to eat my way through. Even the small box can provide a challenge for me. It takes effort to focus on my diet, and the past months I un-subscribed, because I knew I wouldn't be able to cope with it. Now things seem to be easing up and so I am subscribed again. And getting excited about it.

And today, Tuesday 5th, I got my first batch of veggies after a break of several months.

Actually, that wasn't the exact contents of my box. There was a head of lettuce in it, and I don't really do lettuce. However, mum gets the big box, and knows about me and lettuce, and she likes the stuff, and she offered to trade it for the bunch of carrots. And carrots I can do. So out with the lettuce, in with the carrots. That trade also added more colour to the lot.

So, what is in there?

There's a bag of kale at the top, then a kohlrabi, the carrots, leeks and a celeriac. Below those there's parsnips, onions, a cucumber, and then finally a stalk of lemongrass, a chili, lemon and a fresh garlic.

And now for the fun part - figuring out how to eat them all.

I suspect I'll be using the kale to make a Danish dish called "grønlangkål" which is basically cooked kale in a white sauce. I am considering using part of the celeriac, and one each of the leeks, parsnips, and onions, and a few carrots to pop in a soup pot along with one of the chickens in my freezer. The kohlrabi will probably prove the trickiest of the lot. Along with the chili.

I'll be spending the rest of the day cooking up a meal plan for the next week or two, and figure out how to get through these. One of the reasons I started subscribing to a veggie box was to make it easier to get more veg in my diet. And meal planning in general helps me to eat better.