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Eat Local Challenge Wrap Up

Let me start with an overview of my performance on the Eat Local Challenge: for the first half of October, I was eating entirely local at home and eating out about 20% of the time. I started out feeling...

Daring Eat Bakers Local Challenge: Pizza

Challenge mash-up time! Today is posting day for the October Daring Bakers Challenge AND my Eat Local Challenge update. As I feared, I spent a lot of the past week traveling and eating at friends houses and parties, but...

Eat Local Challenge Week 3: Schedule

The past week was the busiest I've had in a while. A confluence of meetings, social events and projects made for a series of late nights and early mornings— and even when I was thinking about food, cooking it became...

Eat Local Challenge Week 2: Defeats and triumphs

It turns out the second verse is not quite like the first. Two weeks of eating local in wheat- and sugar-free MA is a lot harder than one. Around the end of the first week I realized I was...

Eat Local Challenge Week 1: The Technicalities

So, ok, now that that's out of my system, back to the technicalities of the Eat Local Challenge. It's turned out that in order to make my diet 100% local, there were only a few eliminations, the big ones being...

Eat Local Challenge Week 1: Discussing diets

As much as I love talking publicly about food, I hate talking publicly about diets. And not just restrictive weight-loss diets, but any pattern or habit of eating. If you are happy with your diet, you sound self-satisfied and...

Eat Local Challenge!

It's October, and that means it's time for pumpkins, apples, and the Eat Local Challenge! For the month of October, I'll be eating almost entirely local, according to the following guidelines: 1. My definition of local: 100 miles OR distributed...