Locovore Challenge Day #2

Breakfast

 Lunch

 Dinner requires it's own post!

What I learned today...
-it's very expensive to eat local foods!
-it requires a lot of driving
-it takes longer to make

Score for Day 2
85%

Locovore Challenge Day #1

 Breakfast

 Lunch

Dinner

What I learned today...

-it takes a lot of time and planning

to eat this way!

-I'm glad Tillamook is only 92 miles from my house!

-It's going to be hard to find seasonings and

flavorings that fit the criteria

-foods that are not processed don't taste 

as flavorful (yet) and will require some getting used to:)

SCORE for Day 1

75 %

Locovore Challenge

I have become very interested lately in the idea of 

eating more locally grown food...

mostly because of my belief that much of 

what we eat is so full of chemicals and

changed so dramatically that we are 

getting cancer at a more rapid rate then ever before, 

and it just plain tastes better!!!

So I set myself a personal challenge...

try to live as a locovore for 1 week.

I picked the easiest possible month, August...

and will go from Monday to Sunday of this week.

What is a locovore?

"You eat only foods available within a 100

mile radius of your home"

How to be a locovore:

1. Know your reasons for eating local foods

(see above)

2. Decide how strict you will be

(I will try, but with a gluten free diet, 

some grains etc. may not be grown locally)

3. Shop local Farmers Markets

4. Visit produce stands

5. Ask where food is from

6. Read labels

(I do that anyway to stay GF)

7. Distinguish between local and organic

(they are not one and the same)

8. Know the best seasons for various foods

9. Grow your own

( a little late in the year for that!)

10. Examine the source of your grains, dairy, meat and eggs

11. Minimize processed food

I am very excited about this challenge and will

post each day on my progress:)

Fresh Lunch with Friends

When you start visiting at lunch and are

surprised when your husband calls to 

ask what's for supper and you 

had no clue it was 5 pm,

that's a good visit with friends!!

The lunch was made from the fresh bounty

of summer and from local sources.

It's amazing what our part of the 

US can produce...it's all that rain

we complain about I suppose:)

Saturday Evening at the Fair

Clark County Fair 2011

Is it a Fruit or a Veggie? I don't care!

Picked my very first ripe tomato today...

from my very own bush.

(I think they are as good as candy in season.)

Then I biked on down to the little veggie

stand on the corner and asked the owner

"Can I buy some green tomatoes?"

She looked at me kind of funny and said

"Well I guess so!"

So I had to explain that I am not from the 

South, but I love fried green tomatoes,

and then she happily went and picked me some!

And that's what I had for lunch:)

For Anne

There are Fairies in my garden,

watch with me and see.

They flit among the flowers

and dance beneath the trees.

The mossy rock is carpet soft,

green leaves a shady glen,

don't let them hear your foot-fall,

for they're quick to vanish then.

So you must be very quiet "Shhhh"

or we won't get a peek,

there are fairies in my garden,

watch with me and see.

Karen