Start of School Semester

Unfortunately we haven't been doing so great with our 100 mile diet since school started for our son.  We've only sent him to school twice with lunch and he's been buying lunch from school.  Who knows how much nutrition is actually in those lunches.  But also because picking him up from school takes away some time in the afternoon, we haven't been able to make things from scratch as much.

We've been eating out a bit too.  And it's almost impossible to stay in a 100 mile diet when you go to a or any restaurant.  It's possible but most of the time you just don't know and you would assume that in order to keep cost down, the restaurants by in bulk from a big distributor.

But there are some who support local farmers!  We went to Northampton in Massachusetts and happened to have found a little restaurant just outside of main part of town called Roberto's.  They buy ingredients from local farmers.  So it was great to be able to eat out and basically stay within our diet (Northampton is about 80 miles away from where we live so... it's possible that it's within 100 miles from our home but certainly within 100 miles from the restaurant).

Anyway, we started this diet during summer time when things weren't so hectic.  Now finding (enough) time to cook will be the challenge.  And as winter is calling, finding ingredients will also become a challenge.

The good news is our tomato plants have been doing great and we've been making our own sauce.  Spaghetti sauce is amazing when it comes from fresh tomatoes picked only a few days ago!