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Day 5

Today was pretty good. But, I really need to lay off the oatmeal cookies This morning was toast with tomato and pesto. Lunch was a ham and cheese sandwich with cold cucumber soup (recipe below). This cucumber soup is perfect for a hot day. It is so refreshing!
Dinner was phenomenal! It was sausage and [...]

August 6th, 2010
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Day 4

I skipped Day 3.  But, Day 3 was an egg and toast breakfast, sandwich for lunch and left over soup for dinner.
Today was cheese, tomato and turkey bacon on toast for breakfast. Lunch was Shepperd’s Pie I bought at the Farmer’s Market. Dinner was chicken with diced tomatoes and zucchini. Dinner was very easy and [...]

August 5th, 2010
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DAY 2

Today went pretty well…for the most part.
Breakfast Crostinis in the morning. I cooked two slices of bacon. Then I placed two thinly sliced pieces of bread in the pan. Heated on both sides. Then I added a thin slice of cheese. Melted the cheese. Then I added sliced tomato. I served that with a few blueberries. [...]

August 3rd, 2010
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DAY 1

This weekend I prepared for my little experiment. I am going to eat locally for the month of August. I am trying to enlist my family in this little experiment. But, my daughter already decided that she wanted chips and salsa this morning that were left over from last week. Ooops! But, since then she [...]

August 1st, 2010
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Burger-mania

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July 16th, 2010
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OOPS

SO, I did not exactly start my 300 Miles for 31 Days little experiment yet. Time got away from me. I am planning on starting it in August. Sorry for the delay!
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July 14th, 2010
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300 Miles for 31 Days: Stuffed Tomatoes

I will be going on Connecticut Style to make stuffed tomatoes and talk about my upcoming little experiment of eating food produced (grown and caught) within 300 miles of my home. As July, approaches I am becoming more anxious and nervous about this. I wonder: will I be able to do it? Will my daughter [...]

May 17th, 2010
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Honey Banana Bread Muffins

This is one of the recipes I am most likely going to use during my 300 Miles for 31 Days. If you have not read about what I am doing I will give you a little re-cap: I am going to eat within 300 miles of my house for July….that means that everything my family [...]

April 26th, 2010
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My First Loaf

Making bread was a fun little project. It was a  funny shopping trip to get the yeast for the bread.  I had no clue where to find dry yeast nor how it came packaged. I finally found it and went on my merry little way back home to start the daunting task of kneading. I thought the hard part would [...]

April 19th, 2010
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300 Miles for 31 Days: The Beginning

300 Miles   (Click) (The link to see what a 300 mile radius looks like.)
During the month of July me, my husband and daughter are only going to eat food produced within 300 miles of my house. I have always wanted to do an un-scientific thing like this and see how much it costs in comparison to my normal [...]

April 18th, 2010
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