Several weeks ago, I wrote about the organic vegetable program that our family joined. The three-month long season is over, and it's been all good.

Three months ago, before we started the program, our family would only eat vegetables around twice a week. But now we eat them everyday, every lunch and dinner that we have at home. We've learned to cook several vegetable dishes, and we've learned to incorporate vegetables into our food in different ways.

Scrambled eggs are now scrambled eggs with spinach. When we eat baked chicken, we now roast tomatoes at the same time. Stir-fried chicken or beef is now served with kangkong. I've made lots of pesto these past three months, and when we're looking for a snack, we have pesto on Fita or crackers. And when we can't think of what else to do with our vegetables, we just make some broth using a broth cube, and throw in garlic, onions, and different kinds of green leaves.

Organic vegetables are all the rage in Metro Manila lately, but my favorite thing about Good Food Co.'s program is their commitment to the farming community that produces our vegetables. My second favorite thing about their program is the vegetable-box system. Every week you don't know what kind of vegetables you're going to get. I worried at first that this was going to be a problem if I found myself stuck with a lot of vegetables I was unfamiliar with. But on the contrary, it's made me explore new recipes for vegetables, and try vegetables I didn't know I liked! The vegetables are also very fresh and last longer than the usual grocery-bought vegetables.

I admit, we don't always use up all the vegetables. As it is, our tiny household already splits the weekly subscription with someone else, and there are weeks that we still have veggies left over. When a new batch of veggies arrive we try to give away whatever we still have from the previous week, and veggies that have wilted or spoiled go straight into our home compost bin. Cheesy as it may sound, the fact that we do compost our spoiled veggies makes me feel that we are returning to Mother Earth the abundance that she has given us.

All this is for just P400 a week. (Or in our case, P200 a week, since we split it with someone else.) That's just one meal for one person in a mid-range restaurant. That's a very small price to pay for changing our whole family's eating habits--and mindsets--for the better!

Good Food Co.'s next season starts on May 21st. They now also have a salad subscription program. Find 9 other friends from your office who are interested in buying fresh organic salad greens and herbs at just P200 per week, and Good Food Co. will deliver the salad straight to your office every Thursday! For more information, click here.

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