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[jaydub]

C'mon, there's gotta be some caribou that wander past at least once a year, right?  Plus mushroom-addled unicyclists when you're at home.

[Nabubrush]

C'mon, there's gotta be some caribou that wander past at least once a year, right?  Plus mushroom-addled unicyclists when you're at home.

Buncha whiners ruined it for us wanting to kill those caribou.

[side_show]

The 100 mile diet encourages eating food available within a 100 mile radius, not things that are just naturally occuring within that radius!  Cows, hogs and eggs are all farmed within that radius.  I'm interested in it from a ecological and grow-local persepective.  I never took on the challenge, but for the past two years I've grown enough potoatoes to last me almost all year.  It's hard to grow food for the whole year unless you like canned goods though, and I'm so not a fan of canned food and have no interest or time to can my own food.

On a more related topic, does anyone here get sick of sandwiches?  I hit a wall every once and a while and don't want to eat sandwiches at all.  I've recently hit that wall, so I'm off sandwiches for a while.

[CortJstr]

On a more related topic, does anyone here get sick of sandwiches?  I hit a wall every once and a while and don't want to eat sandwiches at all.  I've recently hit that wall, so I'm off sandwiches for a while.

I hate eating sandwiches at home. I feel like I eat them at work for lunch all the time so whenever I have one at home it just feels redundant and wrong.

[wombat]

I have been sick of sandwiches for years.

[side_show]

I tend to struggle with making lunches to eat when not eating sandwiches, which unfortunatly leads to visits to the drive thru, and I want to avoid that as much as possible.

Here's some ideas I've come up with for non-sandwich lunches to avoid boredom:

carrots and celary and pita squares with hummus
salads - especially with nuts and other things added
Pitas stuffed with things
Left-overs

Any other suggestions?

[theinevitable]

I bring leftovers a lot. Tonight my plan is to make a big stir-fry and freeze little sandwich-sized portions for future lunches.

My coworkers might not love me on the days I eat black beans and rice for lunch. But that shit is delicious. I finally mastered my recipe, increasing my number of "can easily cook without recipe or planning" dishes to... two. My Mexican friend told me that his mom's secret is to add a tbsp of soy sauce. It salts the beans, and also gives them a pleasant savory flavor.
Maybe I should buy some epazote so I can eat it more often without getting banned from sleeping indoors.

Word of the day: Carminative. A carminative reduces the musical qualities of foods like beans.

[Nabubrush]

The 100 mile diet encourages eating food available within a 100 mile radius, not things that are just naturally occuring within that radius!  Cows, hogs and eggs are all farmed within that radius.

I'm pretty sure they're not down with stuff that gets shipped in, though - and nothing grows here.

[side_show]

Actually, my sis had a hand in creating a version of the Canada's Food Guide that included options from the traditional Inuit diet, and it is possible.  There was a lot of weird little plant bits that I'd never heard of.  Dried green mossy bits.  Raw whale blubber was a thing...  Possible and desirable are two different things.  It was pretty neat to see a little picture of three cubes labeled "whale blubber" all drawn up in that standardized style the government uses for visual depictions, as a simple line drawing in black and white, with and equals sign and an explanation of it's equivalent on the food pyramid.  This version doesn't include the blubber, but does have some traditional diet things like sea weed, dandelion greens, berries, dried fruit, big wild game and ptarmigan.  It's come a long way from back when I was a kid.

[Nabubrush]

I think in my country they are more cool with people eating wildlife in this biome if they are from here naturally, if you are picking up what I am laying down. I would certainly be willing to try it if it were an option. Right now, though, there is too much snow outside to get to foodstuffs in any way I know how to practice.

I do try to eat local when I am back home. It costs more but it is worth it to me.

[jay-ell]

One of the nice things about living in my part of the country is that local food is usually also cheaper. We eat a lot of pork. Harris Teeter (our regional grocery chain) is really good about sourcing produce locally when it's in season, which is more convenient than going to the farmer's market.

And of course I am taking a stab at growing some of my own again this year. I had to order more carrot and snap pea seeds because a penis got into my shed and gnawed through the plastic baggie I had last year's leftovers in. Those are actually going in the ground in about 2 weeks.

Oh! Also I am sprouting mung beans in my kitchen. I have been watching the process with my kids and giving them lessons in Science. It's amazing how fast they grow.

[Nabubrush]

I had to order more carrot and snap pea seeds because a c*ck got into my shed and gnawed through the plastic baggie I had last year's leftovers in.

I've heard you really have to keep an eye on them things, but they aren't as bad as pu$$y dentata.

[greenkoolayd]

pu$$y dentata.

that is my most frightening thought.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Is pu$$y dentata barbed?

[side_show]

Is pu$$y dentata barbed?

It better be if you want to take it giraffeing.