Local Food Challenge

Since we're on the subject, take the Local Food Challenge:

From September 12th through September 18th, check to see where the foods you eat are grown. Measure the amount of each food. Measuring by weight is best, but if you do not have scales, please feel free to measure in cups or by metric volume. As long as you stick with one measurement method for everything, you will be able to evaluate your information. ...

1. How much of your food is grown within walking distance (3 miles or less)?

2. Are there any food groups central to your diet that come from far away?

3. If you altered your shopping to get as much local as possible, how did this affect what you ate or the cost? Did you like the taste of any of the items more or less than usual?

4. What items from more than 3 miles away could be grown within the 3 miles? 50 miles?

5. Did you discover any local fresh or prepared foods or markets that you hadn't tried before?

6. How much of your food did you eat fresh/raw (without cooking)? (Note: For the sake of your intestines, don't try to change a mostly-cooked diet to an all-raw diet at one time.)

7. If you have a nutrition program, did the local foods meet your overall nutritional needs?