Rocks Box Review (Plus a side of Chow Locally)

Hi Ladies,
It's Wednesday...hump day! Only two more days until friends, shopping and happy hours take over our lives. So, to get the fun started early, I want to answer two important questions: should you rent jewelry and should you let someone who you don't know and has never met you select said jewelry? Let's find out!

My 1st Rocksbox:

   I got my first box of rented jewelry from Rocksbox. (What is Rocksbox? Click here). I had been patiently waiting for weeks and was so excited to be getting a box of gorgeous jewelry for only $15 a month, that I could barely contain myself! Then I received my box...I have to be honest that I didn't love it. The ring is cute, but the necklace and bracelet are things that I've seen before. Then I was shocked at the prices! I couldn't justify $64 for the ring, $40 for the bracelet and $62 for the necklace. So, I shot a couple photos with the ring and sent it back. I was about to cancel my subscription, but since I'd already paid for the month, I provided feedback on the set and gave it another chance. Boy, was I glad I did, because within a week I received....

My 2nd Rocksbox:

   How cute are the earrings and cuff!? Teal is my favorite color and it looks great with the purple and blue. Also, the mint and leaf green on the cuff look fabulous! I probably will not buy any of these, unless I see Halle Berry smiling back at me when I look in the mirror, because $102 is too much for earrings. However, that's the awesome thing about renting; I will rock the heck out of these items until I tire of them. :) Hint: With any subscription box, make sure you provide feedback after each box. They zeroed right in on what I was looking for once I did that.
   So, other than playing with pretty jewelry, what else have I been doing with my week? Keep reading...

Bonus question: Can you have too many vegetables?
   As the youngest daughter of 3, who's sisters are 10-15 years older than her, I grew up in a family where all the yummy, unhealthy stuff had been eaten before I was born. I often heard stores about how we used to eat Alfredo, pot roasts and home made deserts, but how they were too unhealthy for us now. By the time I came along, I was taking sandwiches made of shredded carrots, peanut butter and honey, on the thickest, healthiest bread they are allowed to sell in the U.S. Packing that in my lunch  was essentially child starvation, because I never ate it. I have no idea how I survived elementary school, because I was equally scared of what they served in the cafeteria.
   The point is that I had a lot of exposure to veggies in my youth, but I am far from a vegetarian now. Since I'm now in my early 30s, I need to start eating right before I develop some horrible disease that could've been prevented by following the food pyramid. (A friend at work who's my age, just got and passed a kidney stone that apparently could've been prevented by drinking more water...ouch.)
   So, I wanted to find an easy way to incorporate more veggies in my diet and I think I've found it...Chow Locally. I believe that they only deliver in phoenix, but I'm sure that every city has a organic local farm collective that delivers. They deliver to a whole foods less than a mile from my house and cost only $23/ week. This is what I got for my first week:

Goodness gracious, that's a lot of vegetables! So, what did I do with them?

1. Kale Chips 

(Recipe, I used salt, pepper and lemon juice instead of season salt.) Yum!

2. Kale Salad

With kale, radishes, lettuce, greek goddess dressing and smoked pork from Whole Foods. (Tasty, but it weirded me out to be eating pork on a salad.)

3. Broccoli Stirfry

Sauté the broccoli and spring garlic in sesame oil. Sprinkle on some soy sauce and serve it with ramen pride. (Next time I'll skip the oil, ramen pride is greasy enough.)

4. Fed them to my pet monster

She loves this stuff! She starts begging and whining when she sees me rinsing anything leafy off. Can you believe that?

Thank you for letting me share all this with you! I would love any suggestions and ideas that you have for easy, healthy vegetarian dishes and hope you will continue on this journey with me. :)



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