I have a a lot on my mind right now how much i write about right now depends on a few things since I am at work and should be doing work related stuff (mondays are usually slow in the morning)

Food we all love it and we all need it but did you know if we were to be completely cut off, I mean Edmonton as a city being closed off so no one could get in and out, we would have enough food for three days. Or so I have read this number may differ by a couple days but I believe that it would still be less than a week. It should be no surprise though walk through your local grocery store and actually look where all your food is being shipped from. fruits and vegetables that grow locally are often shipped in from as near as the United States and as for off as another continent. What does that mean for you? For me I find that if asked to describe the taste of something, take a carrot for example, I would say it taste like a carrot and that's about it. Not like the carrots I remember as a kid freshly stolen from a neighbors garden, those carrots were tasty, fresh, crisp and juicy and full of flavor, flavor I sadly have forgotten. Unfortunately it has been so long since I have eaten an actual garden fresh carrot that I can only recall the taste of our standardized carrots from the store.

Taste aside there is another problem with our global food. It leaves a giant carbon foot print. all those resources used to bring you your "fresh" oranges from Mexico.

Where does this leave me? with a new requirement of coarse. Enter the 100 mile challenge. Only eat food that is found within a 100 miles of where you live. For 100 days starting April 1 I will cut out all global acquired food and eat locally only.

Why this will be hard and what I will miss:
Bread: probably one of the most challenging things about bread is that all the grains must have been grown within 100 miles

Fruit: Once again only local fruit so good bye some of my favorites and say hello to a lot berries.

and well just say good bye to: chocolate, coffee, salt, most fish, etc.
pretty much no eating out at all except for very few restaurants if I can find any.

there are a few exceptions mainly if you cannot find something within a new area that is within a 100 miles or if you are at a guests house and they do not have anything that you can eat.

well i probably wasted enough of your day and I should probably begin my work but I will leave an open invitation to one willing to join me on this challenge