If you haven't read about he 100-mile diet, it is a diet based on eating food that has been grown/raised within 100 miles of where you live. The notion is that food transported long distances wastes a lot of energy and just doesn't taste as good as local food. Without thinking about it, I have more or less been living by this diet as I regularly go to the local farmer's market with my daughter (family bonding and we got to know many of the local farmers) and go out of my way to buy local produce when I am in the grocery store (I haven't got to know the cashiers).
But all that changed for one weekend.
Last week, a relative decided that my wife and I needed to get a (local to her) turkey, some cheese (world champion Gruyere) and various other goodies from stores around her place for a family event to be held at our house. Not a problem. We, in our smallish SUV, drove the 40 miles to pick up the turkey (we walked the 30 yards to pick up the cheese), drove the 40 miles back after dropping off the turkey at my in-laws because we didn't have enough room for it at our place. On the morning of the event, we drove the 10 miles to the in-laws, picked up the bird and some vegetables they bought (mostly local) before driving back. 100 miles! Somehow this isn't the 100 mile diet I had in mind.
Next time, I am cooking local Elk with local vegetables.
DC.
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