I try to be a locovore as much as possible...especially foods I harvest myself (both from my multiple gardens and from hunting/fishing). Otherwise, you'll find me eating eggs, chicken, and salad most of the time. (I grow lettuce indoors year round).
I've pursued locovore, too. What I eat is as important to me as how my food is grown. I just purchased 2011 shares in a local, organic farm. I get what they grow, when they grow it. Basically, I'll be eating veggies that are in season. I was gifted garlic last year and the garlic had a deep, earthy flavor unlike anything experienced from a store. I can't wait to see what everything else tastes like. They conduct their farm with biodynamic principals. Upon researching this, they do use varying animal organs packed with different herbs, bury them under ground in winter to decompose as fertilizer. I'm a vegetarian but my veggies will be grown with animal nutrients. I'm going through an identity crisis right now. Evidently, a lot of conventional and organic fertilizers use animal parts as nutrients. At least I can be assured that these animals have a great life on their farm and are slaughtered humanely.
I joined a local thing one year. Not quite the shares approach, but getting locally-grown food in season. The problem is that I spend so much of the local-food season out of town that I was not really benefiting from it.
Waste would definitely defeat the benefits derived from supporting local. I have the matter that I don't currently eat everything they're going to be delivering and I'll have to learn prep methods. Rhubarb, for instance. While this is inconvenient, I'm getting into the thought of getting nourished with whatever the land has to offer me all while broadening my diet. I'm a little concerned with the down side, i.e. loss of crop from disease, drought, etc. (they offer no guarantees of crop) but they have a good historical account of providing full orders despite obstacles. I'm crossing my fingers........
The good thing about this kind of arrangement is that the farmer is guaranteed of an income regardless of the weather, and the buyer benefits if there is a bumper crop. I'll bet you could tell them you don't care for rhubarb, so they should give your share of rhubarb to someone else; and if someone else prefers not to receive something you like, they could give you a bit more of that. If that fails, just give your rhubarb to a neighbor that you don't like.
I eat comfort food: whatever I feel like eating when I get hungry. My wife is very adamant on a healthy organic and natural foods. She doesn't eat beef or pork. Lots of fish, poultry and veges including sushi and sashimi. So today for lunch I went to In 'N Out and had a double cheeseburger with fries and a milk shake.
Careful with that - you'll end up being 'built for comfort.' Your family's diet is opposite to that of my wife and I - she's the one on the 'see food' diet. :brick: I try to tell her that I'm eating her chocolates because I can burn them off more easily than she can.
