Locavoring Day 23 and 24

Memories of our Fijian Holiday....

Day 23

Boy, getting a tad tired of logging and blogging all that we eat in a day!  But then, I take heart when I think that there is only  days to go on the Eat Local 200km Challenge!! Wheat, here we come, in 6 days!!  Bring on the pasta and pizza!!

Breakfast:

Smoothie - apple, feijoa, fig, blueberry and guava.  Berry, berry delicious!!

Snack: rice crackers and feijoa

Lunch:

Leftover salad ingredients assembled in a rice wrap x2, served with soy sauce

Salad ingredients for the rice wraps

Pre-dinner snack: 1 raw carrot.  Food for the eyes.

Dinner:

Stir-fried champagne mushrooms (Mike discovered them at a local grower off SH2 in Tauranga) with garden-grown courgette, cauliflower and onion (from Onion Place in Katikati), in a cream sauce (Auckland) and rice.  Home-preserved beetroot from the garden and avo (grown locally) on the side.

For dessert, we had home-stewed peaches and Tip Top Ice-cream (Auckland)

A late night snack of tea and Ceres Rice Crisps (the organic rice version of potato chips!!)

Challenges:
I miss Proper Chips!!

Day 24

Breakfast:

Same old, same old - smoothie using blueberry (frozen, from Hamilton 114km), feijoa, apple and guava from garden.  I also made some rice porridge for a more satisfying "grounding" breakfast experience!

Lunch: 
Leftover champagne mushroom dish with rice.

Snacks: carrot,  Sakata Rice Crackers.

Dinner: 
Usually, our Friday night is "Lazy Housewife's Night" for us, and Mike goes to the local Farmer's market and buys Henri's delicious hand-crafted, pizza-ovened pizzas.  Bugger, one more week to go till we can take up that wheaty option again.  We still have to stick to our chosen grain for the month - rice!  So after a quick think, Mike went and bought a local Indian take-away, requesting a locally-grown veg-dish and rice.  Their veggies come from Auckland, luckily still in our 200km radius, so we had a delicious rice and Jalfrezi dish to share.  I made rice flour pikelets with home-made Luisa Plum jam for a sweet treat.  
Habits die hard.  After our TV-free February, which ran through till mid March, as we didn't really miss all that time spent watching movies on the weekend, we decided to treat ourselves to a movie.  During our movie, I experienced that all-too-familiar craving for potato chips.  After a quick fossick through the grocery cupboard (now I know what Old Mother Hubbard felt like), lots to eat, just not during our month of Eating Local!!  So we settled for a bowl of Ricies cereal (I usually make a bake-free sweet treat with Ricies and dates) to satisfy that snacking need!!  

Veg Jalfrezi with rice

Rice flour pikelets

Challenges:

I miss all the snacks I used to have during the day.  Now I have to snack on dried or fresh fruit and veggies!!
The evenings get dark very quickly, so photos of food are really not great!  No natural lighting.

Highs:

Realising that we only have 6 days to go!!

I also discovered last night, on catching a glimpse of myself in the mirror, before hopping into the shower - a totally FLAT stomach!!  Now that has to be a direct result of this Locavore diet!!  What else??  We did not set out with this goal in mind, but it goes to show the effect of a wheat intake - perhaps that is what bloats us a little??  I used to have a little blimp, but now it is totally flat!  
For those wishing to actively lose weight, what can I say??  Become a Locavore!  Mike says he also is experiencing a similar effect on his tummy!  And we feel it in our looser clothing!!  Hmmmn, interesting discovery!

Every day, 2 of these are collected - definitely local!!

Way more guavas than we can eat - a large bowl a day.