Tomorrow I join 200 others from Kanu Hawaii to eat locally as much as I can for one week. This is quite a challenge for many reasons.
1. I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
2. I will need to feed my household of seven who all have various food challenges
3. It may break the bank.
My isolation of living on an island is actually one of the reasons that I am doing this. I have thought about what we would do if for some reason we could not get our shipments of food to the island, how would we survive? This test may show if it is feasible.
Yes, I have seven people living in my house and some will have some difficulties with the challenge. First of all I have three boys that eat constantly My youngest, Jake (2) loves his little snacks (Cheerios). What will I replace them with? My middle son, Gabe(8) is my finicky eater no fish, the only vegetable that he will eat are carrots. Will he shrivel away from not eating? Zayn (17), will eat anything but he also will be going to movies with friends (popcorn) and basically as a typical teen does not want his mom telling him what to do. I also have my father living with us and he has a chronic condition which is affecting his appetite, so I am going to allow him the food that is easy for him to eat such as ice cream and yogurt. As for my mother, husband and I we are fine with this and will eat anything.
It will be interesting to see how much this is going to cost. I will be doing shopping at many places to get the best price. Eating locally can be more expensive and I will be able at the end of the week to see how much more it is.
Tomorrow I start the day at the Farmers Market near Diamond Head and I guess I will take this week meal by meal. I am allowing us a few luxury items, flour (I will make bread and pasta), olive oil (I can not live with out it), and spices. I will be blogging to chronicle this week.
Please leave a comment if you have any tips or thoughts.
