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Eeks!

Posted at 4:24 PM on September 21, 2008 by Gina Keenan

Eeks! I did not drop off the planet, just forgot to blog. Where has the time gone?

As with everyone else, the local foods are in abundance. We are somewhere around 95% local foods. Some weeks we can get near 100%. That is a pretty cool week. Until yesterday, I hadn't been at a national chain store in over six weeks for miscellaneous non-food stock up items. It is amazing how eating local changes your shopping habits. It is good for the pocket book in a lot of ways.

Things in our area that are not local that we have been sorely tempted with are avocados (they are awesome right now), fruit juice popscicles, (I still struggle with my home-made popscicles -anyone have any recommendations?) grapes and Ovaltine. The grapes are a gift to my son who started kindergarten this year. The first week he dove into the hot lunch. I inwardly groaned, but didn't say anything. The next week he had already come around and was asking for cold lunch (phew!). We could do other fruits, but he is so picky about things being mushed, brown, etc., I figure it is worth the sacrifice. The one thing I make sure of is that they are U.S. grown at a minimum.

I am really enjoying many of the local produce items. Unfortunately, the one bummer thing this year has been the apples. I don't know if it is the year, but the are much more tart than usual. They are usually awesome. They do seem to get less tart as they sit around though. But, we can live with that, it just makes it more interesting.