Owner's Manual

Aaagh, I did it, I ate something that wasn’t local! But seriously though, you can’t really blame me, that brownie tasted so good. Well alright, maybe it was 3 brownies and 2 muffins, but close enough. The thing is though, I didn’t eat them because I had a momentary catastrophic meltdown, but because I was offered them. I guess this means now though that I have a full rule set for my 100 mile diet challenge;

1. Food must be produced within 100 miles (give or take a bit).
2. Foods can not contain ingredients from outside the 100 mile area, unless the ingredient is of minimal quantity.
3. It is OK to eat locally produced meat, even though the grain to feed the animals is most likely from far outside of the 100 mile zone.
4. If non-local food is offered to me (in a reasonable manner), it is alright for me to eat a bit of it.
5. During each week, I will have one meal (and general time surrounding it) where I can eat foods that are non-local.

Noticing the last rule, it could be so that I don’t go insane, but also so that I don’t die, as Ottawa seems to have a lack of bread production and fruit variety this time of year.

As far as the diet has been going so far other than mentioned above, it is going pretty well. I’m still eating scrambled eggs, cheese and apples mostly, though I also ate local bacon for the first time today too, but that was mainly because I ran out of eggs and cheese, but have since replenished my stock. Anyways, a sudden abrupt ending to this blog post, and I will leave with a picture of part of my dinner. To be continued…