It's All Small Potatoes

Melissa Beedle, Features Editor

2 he life of a student can be hectic.
You eat on the run, you eat fast,
greasy food, and you rarely eat
your vegetables. That is, when you even
remember to eat. I have been through
more drive thrus than I care to admit.
McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, I
know all their menus by heart. It’s not that
I don’t like eating my vegetables. I do. It’s
just that every time I buy fruit and veg-
gies, they somehow end up rotting at the
bottom of my fridge. Waste not, want not,
has been my motto. That is until I stepped
on the scale late December and noticed
that the numbers hadn’t exactly stayed the
same.

But it’s a New Year—a fresh, grease-
less start—and this year I am determined
to eat a little healthier. In the past, I have
had a cheap habit of buying the
cheapest food possible, at the
cheapest store, for the
cheapest price. If it’s a
no-name brand, no
problem, [ll buy it,
so long as it’s cheap.
It all started back in
September when I
made a pain-induc-
ing budget that I
was supposed to
stick to (notice that
I said supposed to).
And this bad habit
has made my non-
profit-worker
feel
guilty. Just a little. So
while P’ve been saving
money, I have also

conscience

 
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
 
  
   

been supporting
some of the best
(Canadian)

the worst

and
(Dole)
companies in North
America. Not to name any
names or anything,

Anyway, the time has
come for me to not only find
food that’s cheap, but also
fast, healthy, and, if possible,
environmentally conscious (or
something like that). So when I heard
about Small Potatoes Urban Delivery
(SPUD), I was mysteriously intrigued. My
waist saw healthy food, my heart saw
goodness, and my wallet saw conscious
spending. SPUD (God bless high-carb
potatoes) is a local grocery delivery com-

pany that will deliver good grub

to your door weekly or one
time only—the choice is
yours. They drop the
food off on your
doorstep in a giant,
discreet container,

and you get the joy

of opening up this

container every
week, just like
Christmas.

The good news is
that shopping with
SPUD means I don’t have
to go grocery shopping. I no
longer have to stand in line-ups.
I don’t have to fight for a parking
spot, and best of all, I no longer have
to try to pay off three different people
for their shopping carts. The bad news is,

  

I don’t get to go shopping!
I decided to call SPUD to find out

why, beyond the important reasons above,
I should shop SPUD—and in the words
of my mother, “what would happen if [I]
ended up getting bruised or deformed
Granny Smith apples?”

According to SPUD’s
Communications Manager,
Andrew Mallory, SPUD
has a 100 percent guar-
antee on every single
delivery.

“Our number-one
goal is to make our
customers feel com-
fortable,” says
Mallory. “Which is also
why we give free public
tours of our warehouse
so that people can see for
themselves where their food is
coming from.”

  
  
  
 
   
  

 

SPUD gets its produce
from 60-65 local farmers,
which supports its buy-
local philosophy. Every
week, SPUD puts together
a “Fresh Harvest Box”
made up of fresh, season-
al produce based the best
farmers’ deals that week
(and all items can be substi-
tuted). So what does one
traditional weekly container
include? Each week is different,
but this week the under-$30 small
Fresh Harvest Box contains:
5 golden delicious apples
2 Ibs. fair-trade bananas (SPUD was
the first grocer in Canada to carry fair-
trade bananas)
4 kiwis
4 Mandarin oranges
2 cloves garlic
1 acorn squash
1.5 Lbs. white potatoes
1 Ib. table carrots
1 head red lettuce
1 lb. yellow onions
1 bunch of kale
1/2 avocado
1 bunch of parsley
Now that I know
my Granny Smith
apples will be safe, ’m
going to place an order
for next week. For
more information,
check out www.spud.ca,
or call 604.215.7783.

 

 

 

 

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January §= 18/2005