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There are several terrific Beths in my life. My honorary aunt Beth in North Carolina is a public health physician and film professor whose pack of dogs include a very fluffy Rafa (named after Nadal). Here's me holding Harvey (named after the rabbit) a few years ago:
Another, whom I'll refer to as Danish Beth, was active on Diaryland back in the early oughts. I'm hazy on how we initially connected, but we had a fine time in Boston on a couple of occasions, and we still exchange holiday cards.
The one I'll call Miss Beth is a Mississippian who doesn't suffer fools and put soup in our freezer when the BYM was convalescing from a bad encounter with a Dodge Journey. Early in the pandemic (March 14), a meme making the rounds said, "You’re stuck in quarantine for 14 days with the third person who pops up when you type @. Who are you quarantined with, and will both of you make it out alive?" My response was that Miss Beth and I would do just fine -- I wouldn't have to tell her, "Shut up for the next three hours, I'm making/fixing things" because she'd be doing the same, with breaks for soup and bourbon, and she replied with "you'd let me nap!"
So when Miss Beth had good things to say about Misfits Market, I hit her up for a referral code (25% discount for her and me) and signed up for a subscription. I selected what I wanted for the box Sunday night, and this is what arrived on my porch this morning:
My base subscription is the "mischief" box every other week ($22 + tax + $5.50 shipping). These items were covered by the base (10 selections from around 20 options)
Eggplant
Purple Top Turnips
Fuji Apples
Sweet Potatoes
Zucchini
Yellow Summer Squash
Butternut Squash
Red Radishes, Bunched
Kent Mango
Green D'anjou Pears
Yellow Potatoes
Russet Potatoes
I requested these items as well, for an additional $24.09:
Organic Watermelon Radish
Earth Greens Organic Baby Spinach, 5 Oz
Organic Meyer Lemons, 2 Ct
Organic Broccolini
Organic Blackberries, 6 Oz
Sunions Organic Tearless Sweet Onions, 2 Ct
Garden of Eatin' Sesame Blues Tortilla Chips, 5.5 Oz
Organic Blueberries, 6 Oz
Organic Honeycrisp Apples, 3 Ct
Element Farms Pea Shoots, 3.2 Oz
Organic Portobello Caps, 6 Oz
I'm satisfied with most of the items. They substituted arugula for the broccolini; I'm finicky enough about bruised salad leaves that I wouldn't have picked that bunch, but I think I can get maybe three salads out of it regardless. The other items that were more bruised or softer than I care for were the eggplant, the apples, and one of the Meyer lemons (and the radish leaves also went straight into the compost bowl), so I'll be using those up first. I'm not too worried about the "tamper proof" spinach clamshell arriving with the film loose in one corner (things were pretty loose in the box, and a good jolt by a squash could have caused the damage), but that's a consideration if you're fastidious about that kind of thing. (I would be pickier inside a supermarket, but that goes for pretty much everything.)
It won't replace all my produce shopping, but it will eliminate a chunk of time in chain grocery stores, which will help me manage both my temper (there is almost always a price discrepancy or five, and I'm enough of my mother's daughter that it's a mighty struggle to let those slide, even when I realize the saner option these days would be to head on out rather than arguing about 50 cents) and my contact with strangers (which, with a superspreader strain projected to become dominant by spring . . . *grits teeth, reaches for knife and pen*).
[Should you want to give Misfits Market a try, here's my referral code: COOKWME-TH9FUJ]
Another, whom I'll refer to as Danish Beth, was active on Diaryland back in the early oughts. I'm hazy on how we initially connected, but we had a fine time in Boston on a couple of occasions, and we still exchange holiday cards.
The one I'll call Miss Beth is a Mississippian who doesn't suffer fools and put soup in our freezer when the BYM was convalescing from a bad encounter with a Dodge Journey. Early in the pandemic (March 14), a meme making the rounds said, "You’re stuck in quarantine for 14 days with the third person who pops up when you type @. Who are you quarantined with, and will both of you make it out alive?" My response was that Miss Beth and I would do just fine -- I wouldn't have to tell her, "Shut up for the next three hours, I'm making/fixing things" because she'd be doing the same, with breaks for soup and bourbon, and she replied with "you'd let me nap!"
So when Miss Beth had good things to say about Misfits Market, I hit her up for a referral code (25% discount for her and me) and signed up for a subscription. I selected what I wanted for the box Sunday night, and this is what arrived on my porch this morning:
My base subscription is the "mischief" box every other week ($22 + tax + $5.50 shipping). These items were covered by the base (10 selections from around 20 options)
Eggplant
Purple Top Turnips
Fuji Apples
Sweet Potatoes
Zucchini
Yellow Summer Squash
Butternut Squash
Red Radishes, Bunched
Kent Mango
Green D'anjou Pears
Yellow Potatoes
Russet Potatoes
I requested these items as well, for an additional $24.09:
Organic Watermelon Radish
Earth Greens Organic Baby Spinach, 5 Oz
Organic Meyer Lemons, 2 Ct
Organic Broccolini
Organic Blackberries, 6 Oz
Sunions Organic Tearless Sweet Onions, 2 Ct
Garden of Eatin' Sesame Blues Tortilla Chips, 5.5 Oz
Organic Blueberries, 6 Oz
Organic Honeycrisp Apples, 3 Ct
Element Farms Pea Shoots, 3.2 Oz
Organic Portobello Caps, 6 Oz
I'm satisfied with most of the items. They substituted arugula for the broccolini; I'm finicky enough about bruised salad leaves that I wouldn't have picked that bunch, but I think I can get maybe three salads out of it regardless. The other items that were more bruised or softer than I care for were the eggplant, the apples, and one of the Meyer lemons (and the radish leaves also went straight into the compost bowl), so I'll be using those up first. I'm not too worried about the "tamper proof" spinach clamshell arriving with the film loose in one corner (things were pretty loose in the box, and a good jolt by a squash could have caused the damage), but that's a consideration if you're fastidious about that kind of thing. (I would be pickier inside a supermarket, but that goes for pretty much everything.)
It won't replace all my produce shopping, but it will eliminate a chunk of time in chain grocery stores, which will help me manage both my temper (there is almost always a price discrepancy or five, and I'm enough of my mother's daughter that it's a mighty struggle to let those slide, even when I realize the saner option these days would be to head on out rather than arguing about 50 cents) and my contact with strangers (which, with a superspreader strain projected to become dominant by spring . . . *grits teeth, reaches for knife and pen*).
[Should you want to give Misfits Market a try, here's my referral code: COOKWME-TH9FUJ]
