It’s been five months with no posts. I have to say that I’m feeling a bit guilty about this because my “rez” last year was to be a locavore last year – and blog about it.
Blog fail.
In all fairness, September and October became very busy and for a while I didn’t have a lot to say about eating locally in the Triangle – which is funny because even in winter there are a lot of tasty, fresh, and healthy local foods to be purchased around here (which is further proof of how utterly lucky I am to live in the Triangle).
So, enough with the excuses; it is time to plow forth into the new-ish year and start up this blog again – better late than never, right?
2009 in Review:
- We didn’t quite make the 85% of total grocery expenditure goal, but we DID buy most of our food from local sources – and, without sounding too didactic, if we all did that our farmers would feel very loved indeed.
- Consequently, we didn’t make a 100% locally sourced meal every week (my morning serving of scrambled eggs does not count). But, we did make a lot of entrees from completely locally sourced ingredients, and we were extremely proud when we did.
- One success is that I did learn A LOT about food preservation techniques and am happily benefitting from that knowledge every week.
- Whenever I eat out, I try very hard to eat at places that source locally. This would be very simple if I ate at the same four or five restaurants every time, but we don’t, so it was quite a challenge.
I realize that this sounds like FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! – but, I just refuse to see it that way. I spent a lot of time volunteering at my local farmers’ market, talking to friends about the benefits of buying locally-produced foods, and well, just eating a whole lot of really fantastic grub. How can that be failure?
That leaves us with what to do in 2010…here are a few of the items that are already planned:
- The blog posts will change a bit from last year – I’ll still be talking about buying a good percentage of foods from local sources, but the blogs themselves will concentrate on buying strategies and making the transition to a more “locavore” diet.
- Advanced food preservation techniques.
- Container gardening for apartments.
- Searching for a garden plot of one’s own.
- Weeknight friendly recipes.
