Eating locally

Our co-op, Mississippi Market, is having a 'eat local' challenge Aug. 15-Sept. 15 and we have signed up! The deal is you have to try to eat 80% locally-- 4 out of 5 items or ingredients should be from a five state area (MN, WI, IA, SD, ND). I have decided that spices can't count...we eat too much Indian food and we'd have to stop! Anyway, we've said that we'll blog about it too-- so check here for updates! With an excellent St Paul farmer's market and our Community Supported Agriculture box, and the co-op which highlights local products hopefully this shouldn't be too too hard!

PS- tonight for dinner we met the challenge easily- Portuguese tomato rice (local tomatoes, onion, garlic, non-local rice) and corn from our CSA box.