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Day 6: Local food deja vu

Posted by marianhd on October 8, 2015April 9, 2018

Breakfast Day 6: Same story as yesterday. Forgot to take a picture, and can’t really remember what it was. My money would be on a smoothie. Frozen strawberries from the home farm, Snowville Creamery milk, …

Challenges, Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD, OF HEALTH

Day 5 – halfway there!

Posted by marianhd on October 7, 2015April 9, 2018

Breakfast Day 5: I’m starting to miss oatmeal. And even cereal. The only local breakfasts we’ve come up with are eggs, french toast, or smoothies. I forgot to take pictures, and now I can’t remember …

Challenges, Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD

Thank you, coffee.

Posted by marianhd on October 5, 2015April 9, 2018

Breakfast Day 4: After a late night of serving 30 people a 5 course meal, day 4 absolutely needed to start with coffee. Unfortunately, coffee is not a crop that grows well in Cincinnati, Ohio. …

Challenges, Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD

Epic Eating – Day 3 Local Food Challenge

Posted by marianhd on October 5, 2015April 9, 2018

At the end of day 3, I had helped serve 160 portions of all-local food. And my feet were killing me. Breakfast Day 3: We started out innocently enough. Lunch Day 3: We had family …

Challenges, Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD, OF HEALTH

Day 2 Local Food Challenge

Posted by marianhd on October 4, 2015April 9, 2018

Lesson of the day: It’s harder to be flexible when my sources of ingredients aren’t sold nearby every day. Our local food dinner party was scheduled somewhat tentatively, so I was adding the finishing touches …

Challenges, Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD, OF HEALTH

10 Days – 100 Miles – 10 Exotics

Posted by marianhd on October 1, 2015April 9, 2018

This whole blog started with a challenge. Almost exactly 3 years ago I took on the Food Stamp Challenge and fed myself and my unwilling husband on $60 for a week. I learned a TON. …

Challenges, Eat Local, Growing my Food, OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD, OF HEALTH

What I’ve Been Reading (about food)

Posted by marianhd on July 31, 2015April 9, 2018

Great articles come across my twitter feed, facebook feed, and email, and I often want to share them, but I don’t just want to repeat what they say so well! So here I will just …

Eat Local, Food Thoughts and Experiences, OF FOOD, Public Health

Simple Baked Summer Squash

Posted by marianhd on July 30, 2015April 9, 2018

Farmers’ markets are the best. Don’t you agree? I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be at 10am on a Saturday. Ok, maybe being served breakfast in bed, but I’d be pretty cranky if I …

OF COMMUNITY, OF FOOD, Recipes, Salad, Vegan

Faux Fettuccine on Meatless Monday

Posted by marianhd on July 27, 2015April 10, 2018

Sometimes I have cravings. Ok, lots of times I have cravings. Like 30 minutes ago when I wanted ice cream so I stopped at Dairy Queen for a twist cone. Mmmm… Most of the time …

Main Dish, Recipes

4 Ways I Fund My Love of Food

Posted by marianhd on June 28, 2015April 10, 2018

By the plethora of hits you get when you Google “how to make money blogging” it’s pretty safe to say that most of us are not making our salary by writing online. Some do, yes. …

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