Aunt Cindy's Traveling Produce Stand

A Few Tomatoes

We knew when we scheduled our trip to Indiana last year that the tomatoes would all ripen just before we left, and of course that's exactly what they did.

Cindy did her best to gather them all and puree or freeze everything we couldn't eat, but it was still a LOT of tomatoes.  She gave some to neighbors, but forgot that she had already given them some of her tomato plants, all of which were producing as prolifically as ours were.

So we still had a lot of tomatoes on our hands as we were packing for the trip.

I said we should just take them with us, so we found a plastic box with a good tight lid, Cindy wrapped them carefully and we packed them in our checked luggage.   When we got to Indiana, we opened that suitcase with some trepidation, thinking we might have clothes soaked in tomato juice, but everything was fine and we all enjoyed the tomatoes.

Cindy At An Indiana Produce Stand

So this year, with a trip to Indiana scheduled for August, she knew she could take some of the tomato crop with her to share with her dad, and she packed some of the green beans in, too.

There's nothing like fresh, home-grown tomatoes and green beans.