Living on the Hundred Mile Diet, Alisa Smith
I would like to talk about this in a Prince George context. Can we compile a list of food producers within a certain distance (maybe more than 100 miles given our latitude)? It makes sense.
Read about The Hundred Mile Diet and see what we can do!
Read about The Hundred Mile Diet and see what we can do!
posted by Rob Budde at
8:20 AM
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The problem you're having with your strawberry jam is pectin, not suger vs honey. The quickest way to cure that up is to make jam with fruit mixes which include fruit with high pectin content, like apples, for example. You can make things work with honey if you go for reduced sugar content. Jams didn't used to have nearly the sugar in them that they do now. The only problem I have with using honey in preserves is that you practically have to run it through a charcoal filter to get the taste of the honey, which can easily overwhelm the taste of the fruit, out.
For winter vegetables you need to look at old methods, viz, storable veggies like carrots and cabbages (like we did in Sweden) and fermented vegetables preserves like kim chi and sauerkraut.
The hundred mile diet simply brings back, for the poor, the problems of centuries ago, viz, vitamin deprivation in the winter which retarded bone growth and intellectual development. There's a reason people are taller and brighter than they used to be. It's that year-round steady diet that you're trying to get away from :-p
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Forrest Higgs, at 7:29 PM
The problem here is one of preparation. If you were to decide "tomorrow I will start the 100 mile diet" you would suffer serious nutritional deficiencies. That cannot be denied.
What this diet is getting at is a change in how we think about food. Thinking months in advance instead of hours in advance. If you want to eat tomatoes in November, you need to plant tomatoes in May and can them in fall. It's the only way it would work. It's the same for all our food.
Eating on a low income is difficult, period, and it has nothing to do with how far away the food comes from. It has to do with planning ahead. Without enough cash flow to invest in long-term food choices, like buying bulk, or buying less processed foods that require kitchen preparation, it is very hard to eat a healthy diet.
The problem of malnutrition among the poor is a problem of capital that will only be solved through support systems that make the capital available to people who cannot otherwise afford it. This is an issue completely separate from the distance the food has traveled.
Just a note, the hundred mile diet challenge is happening in Manitoba this fall. More info at http://www.100milemanitoba.org/
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