So today was day five of my experiment. Fat Tueday was almost a week ago. I got off to a rocky start with this locavore thing. I decided on Fat Tuesday that I would give up non-local food for the 40 days of Lent. So I had less than 24 hours to prepare for this craziness. I had a little local cornmeal, grits and sweet potatoes on hand some local eggs, honey and greens from the garden. My husband and I had made about 40 pounds of venison sausage plus we had roasts and ribs from a deer a friend had gotten for us. I knew the co-op had some good local cheeses - what more could I want?
I woke up Wednesday morning feeling kinda funny. I started the first day of my lenten resolution to eat only local food with great excitement and, strangely, no appetite. I made a big pot of grits and a batch of cornmeal only cornbread. I ate a little but for some reason wasn't very hungry. I went to work and started feeling funnier and funnier. I ate some salad greens with hard boiled eggs and roasted sweet potatoes. Then the waves of nausea began. Yep. I had the stomach flu. Thus began my grand experiment.
I'll spare you the details of the first couple of days, but it was not pretty. I wasn't sure if I wanted to ever eat cornbread or sweet potatoes again - but it was just about all I had to eat!!
Needless to say things are much better now. I just made a fabulous dinner - even Reid agreed that it was good. We had rosemary venison sausage links sauted with fried yukon gold potatoes with some farmstead cheese melted over the top, a salad of greens, grated sweet potato and goat cheese, and light moist cornbread. This is the first day that I don't feel like I'm going to bed with a half empty belly.