Eat Local Challenge: September 2007

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Celebration!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN ALMOST A MONTH???

Yup, that's right. Tuesday, September 18 marks a month of eating within 100/250 miles of SLC. It has been a short and sometimes long road so it calls for a celebration, one last Hoorah!

Please join us at our place at 7pm for a potluck extraordinaire. (We'll supply the dishes and utensils this time!) Just bring a local dish (must have ingredients that are from less than 250/100 miles away only!) to share and something non-local that you really missed. Wrap that non-local food up and at the end of the evening we'll exchange the mystery foods with one another!

Please RSVP if you are coming to: heidinger at comcast dot net and we'll send directions.

Eat Local Challenge and Related Events

Social Soup
Finding Healthy Food in the City for All Economic Groups
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
University of Utah, Goodwill Humanitarian Building, Room 155

Often local food is equated with foodies who are not concerned with budgeting their food dollars, but local food can be affordable. This session, featuring speakers from Wasatch Community Gardens, People's Market, and Utah Community Supported Agriculture in Utah, focuses on finding healthy and affordable food in our city. Come with your questions and leave with useful information.

This series also provides free, vegetarian soup featuring local ingredients. The event itself is also free and open to the public.

People's Market 5th Annual Seed Swap
Saturday, January 29th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Mountain Valley Seed Warehouse
455 West 1700 South, SLC

1. Gather your leftover vegetable & flower seeds from last year.
2. Have no seeds? Come anyway and we’ll give you some to start.
3. Bring your friends to the Seed Swap.
4. Trade or donate your seeds with local garden enthusiasts & farmers.
5. Use your new seeds to start or expand your space with variety.

Also accepting non-perishable donations for local food banks.

About the Challenge

Developing a greater awareness about our food—that’s what the Eat Local Challenge is about. While the “standard” Challenge is described as consuming only foods from within a 250 mile radius for a whole month, whatever makes this experience fun and educational (and a challenge to you) is valid.

Is this your first year for the whole family? Consider doing one week of completely local. Are you feeling really strapped for time and realizing that there are really no ready-made meals available locally? Try choosing a couple of food groups such as produce and meats and just be true to those. (You’ll save time on not having to make pasta or bread.)

However you challenge yourself this year—have fun and enjoy learning about your food consumption!

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Celebration!

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