Q&A | Hungry Harvest, Nursing School, Sonia’s Hair, and Cheeseburger Soup

Hello, hello! It’s Q&A time. 🙂

Do you find Hungry Harvest cost-effective for your current family/life situation?

-Linda

From the beginning, I haven’t really gotten Hungry Harvest boxes in order to be cost-effective. I started getting the boxes because I support Hungry Harvest’s mission of rescuing food that might otherwise go to waste, and giving producers a way to recoup some money from that produce.

I’m quite sure I could get the contents of a Hungry Harvest box cheaper by shopping sales at grocery stores, or by buying the produce from somewhere like Aldi.

So, Hungry Harvest is really more of a mindful spending decision on my part. But it’s about $30 every other week so that averages out to $15 a week. That’s not a whole lot of money to pay to support a business that I believe in.

But also:

Hungry Harvest makes me eat more veggies

I like getting the boxes because they really cause me to eat more vegetables than I would otherwise. For instance, I don’t often think to buy kale, but when Hungry Harvest sends me a big ol’ bunch of kale, I will make zuppa toscana, or a kale salad.

Since we are a smaller household now than we used to be, I just get a box every other week. Otherwise, I’d be overrun with produce.

In conclusion:

If you want to support Hungry Harvest’s mission, and you want the motivation to eat more produce, then go ahead and try a box.

But if you are trying to stretch your produce dollars as far as humanly possible, then you probably should just go to Aldi!

If you are new to Hungry Harvest, click here to get $10 off your first order.

Did you share where you will be going to school in the fall?

(also from Linda!)

I’ll be attending the same community college where I did my prerequisites. It’s a two-year program, and at the end, I will have my RN.

My community college’s RN program is very highly rated. In fact, it’s in the top 5% of nursing programs nationwide! And lucky me, it’s practically right in my backyard.

Plus, as an in-county resident, it’s super affordable for me.

I might want to/need to get a BSN eventually, but I’m just focusing on getting the RN right now.

That way I can start working as soon as possible and have access to employer-sponsored health insurance (I’m obviously going to lose my current health insurance soon).

Also, it’s possible that the place where I end up working will offer some tuition help for getting a BSN, so it makes good financial sense to get the RN first and then figure out what my options are.

Can we see Sonia’s hair?

-multiple readers

After I included a few photos of Sonia’s birthday, several of you asked for more pictures of Sonia’s hair from the front. She said yes when I asked her, so here you go!

Birthday from the front:

And a little fancier:

Also, some of you wondered how she takes care of her curls and asked for a guest post from her. I will check with her to see if she wants to do that, since I’m not super up-to-date on exactly what she does with her curls right now!

(She tries a lot of different products throughout the year. 😉 )

I do know that the basic process is similar to what I outlined in this post about how I do my hair when I want to wear it wavy.

Can we have the cheeseburger soup recipe?

-lots of readers

After I posted that we’d eaten cheeseburger soup on the ski trip, many of you asked for the recipe.

My mom had gotten it from a cousin of mine, so I texted her to ask for the recipe and it turns out, it’s from Taste of Home.

Click here to get the recipe from Taste of Home’s site.

There are a LOT of cheeseburger soup iterations on the internet, and they’re probably not terribly different from each other. But I can vouch for the fact that this one is tasty. 🙂

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Annnnnd that’s the end of the questions I have for right now!

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