Fresh produce

Editor's note: No offense intended to Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and all our other Veggie Tales friends.

Sketchbook: The field is green

Better that the greens are vegetables rather than the meat.
 

What's in your cart?

Not that long ago I walked out of the grocery store at the same time as our sister missionaries. I had a case of soda and a pizza; they had a grocery bag full of fruits and vegetables. 

But I had veggies on my pizza, so that counts, doesn't it?
 

Sketchbook: Veggie tree

A white vegetable that is delicious above all other vegetables? Folks from Idaho would say that was a potato.
 

Fully dressed

It’s enough to scare me, that’s for certain!
 

Service hours

I've found that missionaries are usually really good about eating their vegetables when they come to dinner. Most likely it's because they don't usually eat them when they have to cook for themselves.
 

Sketchbook: Healthy eating

One thing that most cartoonists would agree with is that drawing grocery carts is hard. 
 

It's in the air

Lol.
 

Sketchbook: What gets you motivated?

I have a similar reaction to beets, but not in a good way.
 

Who are the people in your neighborhood?

It just keeps on giving

Nothing gives and keeps on giving like a zucchini. I haven't planted any in years, and I still have all the zucchini I need!

An important travel tip

We stayed in a suburb south of Paris,  Vélizy-Villacoublay. We chose it because it's close to the Paris Temple, it's not far from the tourist sites, it came at a really good rate AND it has air conditioning!

Not far from where we stayed is a giant supermarket, Auchan. It's kind of like the European equivalent of Walmart. We went shopping there one night — and I got into trouble!

When you buy fruits or vegetables at Auchan (as I learned the hard way), you are supposed to bag your produce, weigh the bag on a special scale, print out a sticker and place the sticker on the bag for ease at checkout.

I held up an entire line of Saturday night shoppers because I didn't know about the whole sticker thing — and I got chewed out for that! (Not to mention the dirty looks from the shoppers behind me!).

I ran the bag back to produce, found a scale, but I couldn't figure out how to print out the sticker! Instead, I grabbed my phone and took a photo and ran back to the checkout line. The checkout gal rolled her eyes at me, made up a price, and sent me on my way.

That's not the way we do it at our local Safeway back home!

Editor's note: Ask about getting a shopping cart. It was almost as embarrassing!

Carrot power

Personally, I like carrots. The word "carroty" just has a certain ring to it that something like "green beansy" does not.

The squash is the thing

Just in case you were wondering how I feel about squash...

When does your garden grow?

I hate waiting for the tomatoes to ripen. And the strawberries. And the blueberries.

The squash I can wait for.

Situational learning

Isn't that the way it goes?

Vegetables, explained

I just really like this gag from Zarahemla Times, so I'm sharing it here as well.

Monday Sketchbook: Spoils of victory

I'm still toying with the idea of making this gag a full-fledged cartoon. 

Getting a drumstick in the door

Normally, I would have had the guy wear a BYU sweatshirt, but I liked the idea of having a duck answer the door to two turkeys.

A rose by any other name

I had a wise man tell me once that a plant that grows where you don't want it to be is a weed.

Indeed.