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Here is the Revised Locavore Plan (August Version)
After even more consideration and a month of experience, we’ve decided to reclassify a few items and percentages. Essentially we will go to a 75%/25% plan where:
75% of the food cost will be either Local or Conscientious and 25% will be non-local or other – see definitions below:
50% Strictly Local: ($324)
- Fruits and Vegetables (Aim to buy the CSA Mystery Produce Box every week)
- Meats (We will be largely vegetarian…but on rare occasions…)
- Milk and other available local dairy
- Nuts
- NC Wines
25% Conscientious: ($162)
- Ingredients only: like baking soda, yeast, sugar, flour – choose best option available
- No prepared/pre-packaged foods (including those by NC producers)
- Fair trade coffee
- Necessary but unavailable ingredient fruits and vegetables – carrots, onions, garlic
- US Grains, legumes
- Dairy – choose best option
25% Non-local: ($162)
- Restaurants
- Prepackaged/prepared foods
- Unnecessary out of season foods, non-local foods
- Non NC Beverages
Hopefully these new modifications will give a little more room in the non-local category and encourage healthy, good food choices in the conscientious category. By purchasing the produce box weekly, we’ll have a greater variety of fruits and vegetables in the diet and more creative recipes (with help from the extra items in the conscientious category, like more cheese!).