August 10, 2010
Kristin
From 7 months of grocery shopping and being at the prime of farm produce season, we have a bounty of food that “needs eatin'” (as my grandmother would say). We decided that this week’s challenge would be to NOT grocery shop all week, and to only use what we had in our cupboards and what came out of our garden, from our CSA, or from a farmer’s market. To facilitate this process, this evening we set out all of the edible food we have in our house and divvied it up auction style. (more…)
February 25, 2010
Kristin
I think I’m the only person in the house that feels so jubilant about meat. In truth, if we want to live in a truly sustainable way concerning protein, we wouldn’t be eating meat at all because of the sheer amount of resources most meat uses in comparison to other vegetarian sources of protein. However, my food allergies to soy, wheat and dairy limit our use of vegetarian proteins. Thus, as long as we’re eating meat, we want to make sure we do it in a sustainable way for our local community, the planet and our health. And, since I’m the one who prevents us from going vegetarian, I volunteered to look into the pros and cons of various meat sources in our area. (more…)