Meghan - Week 2 follow up

Okay so it's been almost a week since the official challenge of eating local has ended. I do not feel that much has changed in the way of what I am cooking at home, and how I am eating. Now that may be because I still have tons of veggies, grains, cheese and nuts so I either didn't eat enough last week or I over purchased not knowing what I would want or how much I would eat. Either way I feel like I am still eating almost 100% local, with a few minor exceptions like I am using some non local food from my freezer. 

Tomatoes ripening

In the spirit of fall clean up, my parents where bringing in all the squash and tomatoes from the garden and as many of you know a large portion of the tomatoes where still green. So other then fried green tomatoes what do you do with them... I don't know where or who told my mother to keep the tomatoes on their vines but she did and as such we setup a storage space in the cold room where we are going to hang the tomatoes on their vines from until they ripen (see picture). Over the next few weeks as they turn red we will still be able to enjoy fresh local tomatoes from our garden and I think that's a great thing!


My roommate just picked up this great veggie slicer which makes zucchini or cucumber and I bet other things into noodles. I wish I had had this last week because I can't get over how great it tastes and how much you do not even notice that it's not pasta. I cut up other veggies, added it to my home made tomato sauce that I had canned earlier in the season and used some asiago cheese to add some protein. My first non 100 mile food that has been added back into my diet has been bananas but only for in my green smoothies as I have not had the interest to go into a grocery store and have to make purchases the conventional way.