Locavore Challenge: Days 2 & 3

Getting into the rhythm of eating very locally... Definitely miss my coffee and chocolate but it's going well!

Day 3 Menu
Breakfast-- pancakes with cherry preserves. YUM.
Lunch-- a piece of toast with my attempt at hazelnut butter- turned out to be just ground up hazelnuts, held it on the toast with honey, and some more cherry preserves, hard boiled egg (definitely eating more eggs than normal!), a glass of the most delicious milk ever!
Snacks-- cheese, cheese and more cheese. So many great local cheeses to try!
Dinner-- in the oven right now: a Kookoolan Farms chicken, baking with beets, onion, squash and potato. Will be enjoyed with a bottle of wine from a very local winery.

Day 2 Menu:
Breakfast-- smoothies with berries frozen this summer & local yogurt
Lunch-- I just sort of grazed the day away- a piece of "toast" with honey, hardboiled egg, cheese, tomatoes & beet greens, and dried cherries. Mark had more tomato soup, bread, hardboiled egg & sunflower seeds
Dinner-- zucchini "pasta"* with tomato sauce and fried eggplant (battered in egg and local corn meal), and the last of the sweet corn that we'll get in the CSA for the year

*grated into long strips, it's just raw zucchini, but tastes delicious with red sauce. We discovered this trick in the height of squash season this summer.

So far we've done pretty well in terms of not increasing our meat consumption, our cheese & egg eating rates have definitely gone up though. I went to a local cooperative market yesterday, and they had almost everything sourced and labeled, which was great. They also had some meats from one of the local farms we're looking into doing a share of meat from. This will mean buying 1/8 of a cow for example, directly from the farm. The advantages are high quality meat from a farmer you can meet and ask about their farming practices (and in most cases even visit the farm), but I'm just not sure we a) eat enough meat for it to be worth it or b) have enough freezer space for 1/8 of a cow! (especially not until the summer veggies taking up residence in there now have been eaten)

3 days down, 12 to go, I think we'll make it :-)