Hello fellow chickies!
I have been so busy with classes this summer, but thought I'd sit down and jump in today. I have been doing okay with going to the gym three times a week since february, and I am still eating pretty close to chemical/processed food -free. I am just struggling with the snacking at night that is taking me down!
Here is a question for fellow chickies, because I am not shy about confronting somebody I feel is 'weight phobic' I am going to try a new approach. A little background here, we joined a CSA, if you don't know what that is, it is Community Supported Agriculture. You pay a set amount up front and pick up your produce once a week for 24 weeks.
This place is a local farm, we have to pick it up on the way home, at their store, because we live 50 miles outside of town, so my husband and I take turns getting it. The woman and her husband are probably in their early to mid thirties. My husband said, he went in and she acted like we didn't know what produce was. Now, he is fit...I obviously am not.
She had met me... he said she was nice but sort of condescending-ish. I went in the next time and she told me how to cook beets in a way you might explain something to a five year old. I said, well, I am familiar with all kinds of produce, I love to cook and experiment. I am not a potato only person.
I thought that was enough to give her a clue, I thought she might just be trying to be nice and give me recipes. I let it go. I am not a weight phobic-paranoid...until today. My husband picked it up and she said, how is your wife? He said fine... then she asks if I know what the vegetables are that I am buying.. He was offended. He is NOT easily offended believe me, he is always the one saying I am paranoid.
So, he said, no, she cooks a lot of stuff so none of this is new. It is only squash, zucchini, lettuce, beets, carrots, pole beans and peppers. Nothing remotely exotic, which I do buy those things too, just to try.
He told her I cooked and I was really into produce and I was fine. He said she didn't really stop and said, Dave, that's her husband, will put recipes up on the website so I could figure out how to cook them. Okay, now I am offended.
I told my husband I'd email Dave and ask if HE needed anymore recipes to add to his news letter, and do it all nice, and see what he says. But I will be picking this up next week and I am thinking I might just have to ask her if she is used to people not knowing what her items are. I mean, really, this stuff is run of the mill farm veggies here.
I am not sure what road to take here, because I have paid up front for the entire season, and yes, I might really not go back because of her density but I am thinking the first approach is to just ask her what her experience is with customers, not just fluffy ones, but in general.
I knew it was bad when he came in and said if we hadn't paid up he'd be done because every time he goes in she does the same thing, so today, he said he really laid it out that I cook and am not afraid of veggies. To me this is screaming dense woman here. She is super thin, has long black hair and ice blue eyes. She is sort of strikingly pretty, but really now, she is seemingly strikingly stupid.
I guess it takes me back to a few years ago when a woman married to one of my husband's coworkers asked me if I had ever thought of eating a carrot once in a while. WOW... believe me that didn't end well for her at all.
I don't want negative juju all over my veggies, so I want to keep this really positive.
Do any chickies think emailing farmer Dave with a recipe suggestion for his news letter might get the point across to them? I have never met him, but saw his picture on the website, and he has a pooh tummy of his own, not huge, but not thin either.
I am thinking that might be my first approach and then if she continues this tone, like fat people are slow to understand veggie talk, I am going to lay it straight out for her, she might not realize how it really sounds to a paying customer.
Believe me chickies when I tell you, I have been able to flat line my weight loss on veggies... let's just say avocados are my best friend. LOL but really, I do eat a ton of them, and I am not making excuses for my being heavy, I know what the deal is here.
What to say to farmer who is clueless
It might just be a spiel she rattles off to whoever comes in, especially newer, less familiar folks, to make sure they know what they are getting and know what to do with it, so they are happy and keep coming back. 
