Our Lunch

Our 100 mile meal: Lunch

 Sometimes you can easily tell when something is local- fresh, straight from the farm. As we washed our arugula to make our salad, a small lady bug rose to the surface. It was a close call! But it's nice to know that our arugula was fresh.

The salad featured  lots of our in-season foods. We added in leftovers from our tabouli salad (June 19) - and overall it was delish. We also had more radishes and butter- they were very good. At some point, we're going to start to hate all the radishes- too much is too much, but we know that in 2 months when they're out of season we'll want them again. Sometimes you just wish that nature could be more steady!

Overall a really good meal- I'm thinking of attempting to bake local bread this weekend!

Some tips for starting at your home-
1. It's hard to stop eating processed foods cold turkey. Try slowly adding more and more local foods into your diet as the days go by.
2. Buying local can be expensive. Don't be afraid of growing your own vegetables.
3. Don't completely cut yourself off, decide at the start which foods are okay to buy from commercial businesses. We still are buying coffee and sugar and a whole lot more that is outside our radius. Once you go longer you can think again about which foods you need.