Season's Greetings

Eating seasonally is something that I need to pay much more attention to. It’s obvious that the $6.99 containers of strawberries stocked in the grocery stores during January are not seasonally appropriate. The other months and produce however, are not always as clear. Eating seasonally should be an essential component to the Paleo diet. Cavemen weren’t eating cucumbers in December. In modern society we enjoy the luxury of eating mangoes in the middle of the winter, in Upstate New York or Apples in the dead of summer in Southern Arizona, but should we? Think of the fuel necessary to ship this produce and how fresh is it once it reaches its' final destination? 

Here is a list of foods that are in season and bound to be incredibly tasty:

EARLY SEPTEMBER

Beets, Blueberries, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cantaloupe, Carrots, Celery, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Grapes, Lettuce, Onions, Oysters, Peaches, Pears, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Radishes, Raspberries, Snap Peas, Squash, Tomatoes, Turnips

LATE SEPTEMBER

Beets, Blueberries, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Celery, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Grapes, Lettuce, Onions, Oysters, Pears, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Radishes, Raspberries, Snap Peas, Squash, Tomatoes, Turnips

This morning I enjoyed a small, locally grown cantaloupe.

How do you eat your melon? When I was a kid, I loved eating melon bowls. For those of you who aren’t sure what that is, it’s when you chop a melon in half, scoop out the seeds and dig in.

Now, I scoop, slice, dice and eat.

 Whichever way you eat your produce, try your best to buy local/organic as often as possible and no matter what, wash, wash, wash.