Baby steps
20 months ago
Let’s see if I can do this one day a week to start.
I’m going to make Saturday my official 100 Mile Diet Day.
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New supplier 97% closer
2 years ago
Found a new edamame (soybeans) supplier today while at St. Lawrence market.
While outside the 100 mile (160 km) distance, this producer is within 180 miles (300 km). Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Compare that to the supermarket 100 steps from my place which brings in edamame from China, shipping distance of over 11,000 km from Shanghai (or 12,500 km from Hong Kong) before counting any distance travelled from grower to packer to shipping terminal!
So I’m busted on edamame pursuant to the strict interpretation of this diet. Bottom line: thanks to this new supplier, edamame gets to stay in my diet. Who knows, maybe tomorrow I’ll find a different edamame supplier which is within 100 miles.
The idea is to keep your eyes open and ask questions about where the food comes from.
OK maybe not 100% 100 mile diet but I can try
2 years ago
Basically you only eat stuff within a 100 miles of your house http://www.100milediet.org.
Pretty much everything at the grocery store is off limits (its all imported from or mass produced from somewhere else). I have a great local organic protien supplier at the farmers market. We’re fairly far north but there’s good veggies most of the year (by Feb/Mar its mostly root veggies though) not much fruit but you can get lots of berries (I still have lots of frozen u-pick raspberries, saskatoons, and strawberries from last year). I can find local yogurt and cheese (just under the 100 mile limit) but I don’t think you can buy milk (its like there’s some dairy distribution conspiracy out there if you ask me).
The challenging part would be staples like bread or flour (even though its all prairie out there for 100 miles I don’t know how you’d find local grain products), other carbs (no rice – I really don’t care for potatos), other protiens (beans, lentils, peanut butter etc.), condiments (salt, pepper, spices), and miscellanious stuff. I did find a local canola oil dude last weekend.
What I would miss the most though is… coffee, tea, salmon, wine, beer, milk and I’m not sure what else.
