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| ali2583 |
Posted - Jun 21 2007 : 6:59:58 PM
Hi,
I've been doing a lot of reading about the 100 Mile Diet, and DH and I are thinking that it's something we might seriously try. Basically, you source all of your own food, and travel no more than 100 miles to get it. Other than coffee, we're pretty sure we have reliable sources of dairy and cheese, beef, poultry, fruits and veggies, flour and bread.
I know so many of us grow and produce a lot of our own food, but if you're like me, you still end up making a trip to the grocery store now and then.
Has anyone tried this diet? I'd love to hear your experiences - thanks!
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| goneriding |
Posted - Jun 24 2007 : 02:09:09 AM
Well, I for one am not doing without my coffee and would travel to South America if that's it took!! I'm declaring my coffee to be local!! :-) I like the locally raised Angus steaks and we have some fruits and veggies that are grown locally. However, not everything I like is within a 100 mile range of me and I'm not really into doing that much without. When I first saw this post I thought it might have been bunk but when I went to the site, I'm actually already doing some of this stuff anyway, so I guess I'm good!
Winona :-)
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jun 23 2007 : 10:48:04 PM
Have any of you read the new book "Animal Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver? It is about eating locally and it's a very easy read with some great recipes. |
| Tracey |
Posted - Jun 23 2007 : 6:55:15 PM
I've read about it before and think it's awesome. There are some things that are difficult, like the coffee you mentioned, and some things that just don't grow well in certain regions (melons don't fare too well on this side of the state, for instace.)
There was a woman years ago who used to say something like, "Eat food that goes bad and eat it before it goes bad." Basically, eat fresh.
Here's the link: http://www.100milediet.org/
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| Celticheart |
Posted - Jun 23 2007 : 6:11:47 PM
I just saw something about that diet. It was part of the recommended summer reading on Kitchen Gardeners International. There were 5 books listed and they all sounded good. But If I spend my summer reading who will do the weeding???
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 22 2007 : 2:54:11 PM
I think this is a great way to support local farmers who are trying to use more enviromentally healthy (and people healthy!) growing practices. It is much easier to do this during the growing season though. Once winter comes it can be much harder to keep the same diet that we modern Americans prefer. If you stay strictly within the 100 miles during the off season, you will have to can a lot in the fall and do without during the winter.
Personally I would love to do this diet more. I am going to try harder to live by it's principles more when I return home. I love supporting those who are trying to "live the dream" (or my dream!!). Maybe if we all did this a bit more, they could make more of a profit and slowly locally produced items wouldn't be as expensive as they are now!
Alee
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Jun 21 2007 : 10:08:58 PM
My daughter has been doing it for about a month and she loves it. She is very successful at finding what she needs locally, using farmers markets, local creameries, a CSA, etc. She's pretty resourceful. |
| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 21 2007 : 9:11:37 PM
mmmm....sounds interesting. We have a coffee rotisserie and distributor w/in 100 miles of us!
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