Comment Response

It's truly humbly that I can't respond directly to a comment within the comments. 

Bean asked in the last post why it was okay for me to accept tomatoes and not leftovers or eggs.

Good question.

While there is no official method to my madness, I thought out the following.

1) Nearly every person in this rural community has access to fresh tomatoes.  They are so plentiful (even in bad years, which this one was), that they are left in public places and are "fair game."

2) It was the night before our first frost and the thought of not having a fresh, delicious tomato until next summer was sad.

3) I only took two red and they were small (I picked the remaining green for the future).

Also, it's a bit more unusual for a person to get fresh eggs (though not that hard) from a friend (and my friend doesn't charge me).  Taking leftovers from a party seemed tacky (though normally that doesn't stop me) and also didn't seem fair for this experiment. 

Further, the tomatoes, while healthy, aren't a significant portion of a day's nutritional needs.

I did however, take the leftover Greek salad from dinner Saturday night and had it for lunch Sunday.  But more on that later.

Thanks for asking!