Eat Local Challenge

Ok we have put this off for far too long! During the month of May we participated in the Eat Local Challenge. At first we thought this would be really difficult but since it was the start of summer the farmers market had a lot of variety to work with. Also, instead of just picking recipes on a whim we focused more on what was in the recipe and if we could purchase it at the farmers market. We are very lucky to have awesome family that has given the both of us cooking magazine subscriptions and cook books that also focus on eating in season. So in short, we had an awesome time doing the Eat local challenge and we made all of our meals 50% local or more. I would have to say that during the challenge the majority of our meals were around 85% local. Now we have taken the things we learned during the challenge and have made them a part of our "foodie" life. One of the things we found helpful was buying local meat. We are fortunate here at UF to have a meat processing center on campus. The prices are on average 1/2 the price/per pound then meat found at the grocery store. However, the UF meat center only sells beef and pork. We did find chicken that is semi-local (within a 100mi of our home) and fish (again, we're lucky we live by the gulf).

Since it took us awhile to write our recipes from the eat local challenge, we decided to just put the pictures up:) If any of the food looks yummy to you, feel free to e-mail us and we can e-mail it to you! Here's our yummy meals from the eat local challenge!

Flank Steak in a red wine and onion marinade (our first local meat purchase)


Homemade pizza (local sausage, dough, and tomato sauce)



Pork Ribs with an asian marinade (local ribs and they were oh so yummy!)