Well, by looking at the latest entries here … I feel like I fit right in … regional beer and local restaurant food ! I’ve never been a very reliable cook. Especially in the summer, I seem to run all day and wind up home late and much too tired to be creative in the kitchen. The past two days have been like that. Last night I got home, looked happily at the beautiful local produce waiting to become dinner …. and instead reached for a peanut butter sandwich that had been intended for lunch, but made it all the way back home in my cooler, uneaten. That was dinner. I think the jelly was made in Chico.
While I was eating my “lunch” in the checkout line at BriarPatch, I overheard my good friend Thea saying, “I don’t get the point of this ‘eat local challenge’ … I eat that way all the time, what’s the big deal?’. Feeling a bit deflated, as I defended my caramel mocha and cookie – I reminded myself that Thea lives on a farm. She has chickens and goats and gardens right outside of her door. So, for her, eating very local food every day is ‘no biggie’.
I’d like to dedicate this month’s challenge to all of the busy folks out there, with full-time jobs, who may or may not know why eating locally is a good thing to do. To those of you who live in apartments in the middle of town, who walk to Safeway for groceries because its close by, who have been .. up to this point, just too busy to think about why we make food choices and how to make changes.
I know better, and still eat non-locally. Its habit. Like reaching past the local veggies to eat that ‘comfortable’ peanut butter sandwich. Now, what will be lunch today ….. ?
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