This week's farmers market meal plan + recipes — 1st week of June

The best warm-weather produce is finally out: fiddlehead ferns, romano beans, asparagus, tender herbs, and even sungolds.

So, for this week, let’s maximize the best of the best with some customizable lunches and bright dinners.

My $222.79 shopping list

My haul breaks down to 51 servings of meals and snacks — $4.36 per serving. The cheapest was my $2.60 frisee and snow peas, while the priciest was my $28 lobster.

Fruits + vegetables

• fig leaves

• sungold cherry tomatoes

• strawberries

• squash blossoms

• squash with blossoms

• fiddlehead ferns

• purple asparagus

• romano beans

• flowering chives

• cucumbers

• frisee

• bosc pears

• shallots

• French breakfast radishes

• snow peas

• chickpea sprouts

• micro basil

• lolla rosa + green romaine lettuces

Protein + breads

• pasture-raised ground pork

• pasture-raised chicken thighs

• pasture-raised maple breakfast sausages

• free-range eggs

• maple pepper smoked steelhead trout bites

• monkfish

• eel

• littleneck clams

• lobster

• whole sea bass

• grass-fed ricotta

• grass-fed cottage cheese

• morning glory muffin

• cranberry cornmeal scone

• everything bagel chips

• mixed-grain sliced loaf

• sunflower millet loaf

• sourdough whole wheat pizza dough

This week’s $4.36-per-serving meal plan breakdown (with substitutes)

Subscribe to see my meal plan, which stretches this haul into 51 servings of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks. I also provide meal substitutions and some recipes.

Read more