Help!!! What did I just buy at the grocery store??

Off hand I would do some kinda pasta with the leeks and tomatoes, probably a tortilla soup (with baked corn tortilla chips) and a ratatouille

I like avocados with just lemon juice and a touch of salt. I eat them straight out of the skins. I also like cucumbers the same way. I would make a fruit salad with all of the fruit. Usually fruit salads last me 4 days and I have a little with every meal.

I mean to say a bigger commitment *than* you needed to.

Tahini paste, garbanzo beans, olive oil, basil and tomatoes for hummus

Pasta with any veggies

Wilted spinach with Protein

Avocado mashed with salsa for "easy guacamole"

Sautéed squash with onion as a side dish

Tomatillos puréed and used as a sauce for burritos

Spinach for salad

stir fry! pasta primavera.....zucchini tots (15 calories.. and slammin) we make veggie fries....Its great to have loads of produce... but I tend to get mine every 3 or 4 days..... yay! for making great food choices... nicely done

Yum!! I sure hope those veggies don't go bad! Start looking up recipes, it's really that simple. To avoid produce going bad in the future, pick out a few recipes you are going to make during the week, and bring them to the grocery store. ONLY buy the ingredients you need. That way, you can keep the costs fairly low- and you won't have to worry about moldy veggies in your crisper.

I just spent $100, Yes, I said $100 on ALL VEGETABLES from the produce store!

I just don't know what to do with most of them.

I have leeks, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, cucumber, a green squash, cherry tomatoes, parsnip, tomatillos, jalapeno pepper, radishes lemons, onions, spinach, avacados, blueberries, oranges, apples.
I also bought tahini paste and garbanzo beans to make hummus!

Can someone please tell me how I can eat or prepare all this?
I don't want to waste this food, but I don't know how to eat it.

I figured if I bought it, I would be forced to learn how to eat cleaner.

Now I have a kitchen full of stuff I'm too uneducated to eat.

Make a kick-*kitten* stir fry! Mmm. With the blueberries, oranges, and apples, cut them up into a simple fruit salad. Just experiment, there's so much that can be done! Do check out allrecipes, it's really helpful with the reviews, but do mind your sauces and such.

www.supercook.com


You tell it what's in your kitchen, it tells you what to make. It saves your grocery list too, so you can just keep adding to it.

I love it!

Avocados don't last very long....like 2 days max. Use that first!

make fried rice, but add TONS of veggies.... YUM!

Yummy, that's my kind of shopping cart.

I would make ratatouille with the eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, and onions. You're missing the peppers, but it will still be delicious. I love it for lunch or fill a ramekin with it, top it with an egg and bake it all up for a yummy breakfast.

A yummy dinner could be the beans heated through and spiced up however you like, toss it on top of the spinach so it wilts and then finish it off with some grilled shrimp.

You also have most of what you need for gazpacho soup. One of my summer favorites. You could probably make yourself a nice cold cucumber as well; maybe use some spinach there as well. Also, cucumbers with a splash of rice vinegar is an awesome side dish. Especially next to some cold sesame noodles.

The turnips and other root veg... pretty out of season, I'm surprised they were there. Always delicious roasted and eat as is or pureed into a mash or even a soup.

Happy eating!

Also check out http://www.supercook.com another site you put the ingredients you have on hand and it will give you recipe ideas

I used to do the same thing. I have to say meal plans will be your best friend!!! I have spent so much less money since I stopped being random and started planning. It has made my life easier and I eat better, too. Good luck, though! Wish I had recipes but I don't cook, just get stuff I can eat easily and don't have to prepare much, but I live alone so I don't HAVE to cook. Except dinner, sometimes dinner I will cook.

Big pot of veggie soup, then freeze.

Sounds great to me!

Turnips are awesome roasted in the oven like you wouls do potatoes, it gets rid of the strong 'horseradish like' flavor - some find it bitter. Though if you roast some and then mash them (like mashed potato) the pair wonderfully with beef. I've also made turnip fries but you will need to use oil to coat them or they will not brown or get crispy. Parsnip can also be roasted or mashed.

Radishes can be roasted as well but most people seem to eat them raw in salads. The flavor is quite sharp so don't use too many.

Leeks can be used in a similar way to onions though the flavor is much milder. They are nice in soups as well as roasted.

Eggplant and zucchini are both quite soft vegetables. Zucchini lends itself well to being shredded and turned into zucchini bread/cake (like banana bread but not as sweet), it's also nice in stir-fry, roasted, cut into sticks and munched on raw. added to salad or a million other things. Zucchini has a very mild flavor so it can practically go with anything.

Eggplant is more of a "specialty" food. Used in a lot of ethnic cooking. It's quite yummy sliced and roasted with potatoes and onions in a casserole dish covered with marinara sauce and Parmesan. Keep in mind that it is quite a 'wet' vegetable so when you cook it you will get a lot of juice so limit the liquids that you use with it and try to pair it with a starch to absorb. I'm not a huge fan of the texture personally but a lot of people love it.

Cucumber can be used to make Tzatziki sauce combined with Greek yogurt and lemon juice over lamb, beef or chicken (check allrecipies.com for full instructions) You can also stir-fry it , eat it raw or use it in salads.

I don't use much squash but I'm sure that would lend itself well to roasting like turnip and parsnip or mashing as well.

Cherry tomatoes..anything you can do with normal tomatoes. great for snacking on

Lemons are good for lemonade, salads, fish, as a base for sauces or marinades. You can also grate the rind and use it for flavoring other things - like cakes or sauces etc..

Onions, are normally combined with other things but can be sliced thin and fried over low heat until they 'caramel' and then eaten like that or usually over meat or liver or things like that. You can also add them to a mix of other roasted veggies, make French Onion soup or generally put them in any other food for more flavor, stir-fry, meatloaf, sauce - not much savory food that wouldn't taste better with onions.

Blueberries, oranges, and apples Can be used to flavor sweet items, as a salad, raw to munch as snacks, mashed into jam or sauces, baked into deserts, blended in smoothies and tons of other things.