So for my birthday I made Earl Grey tea. And it was amazing.
This morning I made Earl Grey tea again - reusable cup, local cream, local honey, bulk tea in a strainer - and...left it on the counter when I left. Major disappointment. But I drank it cold when I got home!
I think I need to really work on eating more protein. Meat is so expensive when you buy local grassfed - I need to buy from the Amish instead - that I haven't bought or eaten much of it this month, and I'm not feeling as good as I should for the quality of food I've been eating otherwise.
In brighter news, I have a (reusable) bag full of goodies from Local Roots just waiting to be turned into amazing food again - pumpkin, leeks, sweet potatoes, red and blue potatoes (a bunch of baby ones!), white and orange cauliflower, lettuce, basil, ground beef, Swiss cheese, and the crowning glory - a piece of maple hickory pie!
Local eating is really going well for me. I get frustrated with the lack of easy options, and I snack sometimes on the mixed nuts I have in the cupboard from last month. I take advantage of opportunities to go out to eat. But by and large, it suits the eating style I already have, and the one I aspire to, and it's mostly just hard on my time and grocery budgets.
Socially it's not an issue at all. It barely comes up. I live mostly alone; the people I cook for aren't going to give me a hard time about anything I make for them. My friends don't care what I eat. Anyone else I see in a setting where I sit down and pull out my food and start eating either isn't interested, doesn't know me well enough to talk to me, or is used to seeing me pack my own food around. I always have. I'm used to being just that little bit offbeat so that people who know me for long expect me to do odd hippie things. People who don't know me well get used to it fast, because I don't apologize for it. If you want to give me a compliment, tell me I'm weird.
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