Eat local challenge

I keep asking myself how I would live my life if I lived it according to my beliefs instead of keeping my beliefs fairly isolated from my actions. In the spirit of baby steps in the correct direction, I present my modified version of the Dark Days Local Eating Challenge

Each participant can set their own rules, but generally they are:

1. We have to cook one meal a week with at least 90% local ingredients. For the benefit of my detail oriented friends (jrtom) “90%” in this context means “predominantly”.

2. We have to write about it – the triumphs and the challenges

3. Local means a 200 mile radius for raw ingredients. For processed foods the company must be within 200 miles and committed to local sources.

I plan to keep this up through the end of the year, and then re-evaluate on New Year’s Day

The challenge starts now. All are welcome to play, but you gotta write about it.

Once upon a time, if the legends are true, my parents fed themselves (and little baby me!) for an entire winter using preserves from their very own garden, trade with the neighbors, and a half cow in a freezer up the street. That would be, like, 28 times harder than what I’m proposing here.