I jumped into the eat local challenge with the hope to eat only local food for every meal--down to our cooking fats. We began with a fantastic Saturday trip to the farmers market where we bought 50 dollars(more than usual!) of food including veggies and fruits of course-but also for the first time local cheese, eggs and meat-(we bought cajun sausage-we Never cook Pork! and it was goooood). We began to think we were eating like pioneers all vegetables and animal products-very different from the way we usually eat. But, we've run into some challenges -that aren't necessarily discouraging-but we've definitely found that we don't have the resources in place to completely eat local. But I'm using this as a way to see where the holes are that we need to create a market demand for.--I'll post more about what we're finding where and how we're managing to eat local. I hope that this blog becomes people posting their recipes and challenges and etc as well.
One thing that I've found by the way that I will stick with for sure is that the local cheese is fabulous and the local eggs from the farmers market- taste and smell beautiful!--very very very! worth the trip.