Eating Local – Breakfast & Lunch

As you all know I pledged to Eat Atlantic today which means that I pledged only to eat foods that were produced in Atlantic Canada. I liked this challenge because it brings awareness to people about where their food actually comes from. What I didn’t like was the list of foods that the website provided as "great Atlantic food ideas" for foods to eat locally. There was no mention of many, many local foods that are not processed! I would not eat any of the meats mentioned on that list. No thanks!

I have to admit, I had been so busy this week that I hadn’t thought out what I’d have for breakfast! One thing did not change was my favourite coffee from Just Us (Mexican Morning) with Farmer’s blend cream. I switch back and forth between Scotsburn blend cream and the Farmer’s regularly.

Hubby eats the Ben’s Smart Bread, which is definitely not my bread of choice. I’m more of an Ezekiel sprouted grain bread girl myself and it pained me to eat this because I knew that it wasn’t as healthy as the kind I usually eat!

But it’s local:

I wanted to make a couple of egg whites so badly, but NOPE not local! All I had on hand that was local and to go on toast was this farm fresh homemade strawberry jam that FarmGirl made from fresh berries from her family farm, Websters Farm:

It was sooooo sweet! I’m used to having PB with it, but nope, not local, so I couldn’t! I was convinced that I was going to die before lunch not having had any protein :-P

Turns out I lived just fine ;-) I did snag a peach to tide me over to lunch:

Then I met FarmGirl and Jaime for lunch at The Wooden Monkey. I have been dying to try this place because for one, the menu looks so delicious and secondly, ALL of the food is made from local sources!! *ding ding ding*! Perfect cop out excuse for eat local day if you ask me!

The menu looked soooo goood! I settled on:

UMMMMMM DELISHHHHHHH!!!!!

FarmGirl had the nachos and since they looked so good..

….and the salsa looked amazing….

I HAD to “help” her:

It was a beautiful and hot Friday longweekend afternoon, so I decided to go for a nice glass of lemonade too:

Looks like they were filming a movie of some sort downtown:

So now I’m off to Jaime’s house where she, Lynn and I are putting together a special dinner to finish off our Eat Atlantic day! Stay tuned to see what we have come up with!!