Yes I failed at my eat local challenge and did not make it to day seven.
Day six was a pretty good day which was topped by a dinner of Sautéed Mahi Mahi with Hamakua Mushrooms and Thai Fried Rice (rice was a cheat)
On day seven I had a super busy day that did not allow me the time to go to the farmers market, thus I had no local items to eat.
Was this project a failure, no. I realized for the most part I do eat local as much as possible which helps out economy and is better for the environment,. If in a disaster and we could not get any get any food shipped in, I could survive. The hardest part of this is that it was a restrictive diet only allowing certain foods. I am not good with diets, I love food from all over, I love to experiment with food and this was not possible in eating local.
The feed back from my kids was pretty negative, my 9 year old complained all the time. He is a very picky eater and there was not much that he was willing to eat. My 17 years old on the other hand is a very adventurous eater and his biggest complaint was nothing tasted like my cooking and it all kind of tasted the same (lack of spices).
A lot of questions also came out of this challenge. Is it OK to eat local if it is a GMO (lots of our produce is GMO)? Organic verse non organic? Do we have enough resources to sustain our islands? Lots of questions with many varying answers. Next I would like to work and arrange a panel discussion on this. Another project?
