locavore challenge

Nofa-NY is hosting a locavore challenge. The registration and description are a bit confusing, but the concepts fun. Our family has decided to go local (again) for one week in Sept. We will use the Marco Polo exception (salt and spices) and wild cards (coffee!!). But other than that we will eat completely local (250 miles) for a week. Our wild cards will be: coffee (but as always we will only buy fair trade, organic), olive oil, rice, sugar (this because I'd like us to be able to use our jam which is made with sugar-otherwise honey and maple syrup are fine sweeteners to substitute).

Several years ago we did a similar thing (but with our own rules). After our family challenge was over we allowed some non-local foods back into our diet but kept an awareness of local eating. We know where our food comes from far more now than we ever did and learned some good local sources and tricks for substituting local ingredients for things you can't get around here. It will be fun to re-visit the challenge!

http://www.nofany.org/events/ny-locavore-challenge/about-challenge