> > I was just looking for something at the Positive Futures site > http://www.futurenet.org and stopped to read an interesting > list of suggestions on 101 ways to get educated. > > They included some gardening suggestions such as growing > enough wheat for a loaf of bread and turning it into a > loaf of bread. > > I thought one of the suggestions might be fun for the > list to try. It was to eat only from the garden for > a day. I would like to call this GOFAD (Garden Only > For A Day). Also I would like to propose three variations > on this theme. For all three variations I think water should > be included as an optional ingredient without requiring that you > catch and process rainwater from the garden :-). > > GOFAD/Grower > ************* > This is the most challenging level. Foods include any that > you currently have growing and any sprouts that you grow. > (Bonus if you grew the sprout seeds yourself, too :-) ). > > GOFAD/Homesteader > ***************** > Same as Current plus anything you grew/foraged and stored, canned, froze, > dried, etc. > > GOFAD/Trader > ************ > Same as Homesteader with the addition of salt, sugar, honey, flour, > baking powder, baking soda, herbs and spices grown by others, oil/butter, > vinegar/wine. This is mostly garden food with the addition of a few > critical staples and flavorings. > > > For people who have nutrition software, it would be interesting to > know how close your food for a day came to meeting your nutritional > needs. For those without nutritional software, take a look at your > recipe software if you have that. You can make your day's food > one recipe to serve one and get a nutritional analysis that way. > > > When I have done days similar to these in the past, my favorite > days tend to be corn on the cob for breakfast, salad for lunch, > and stirfry for dinner. > > For those in the southern hemisphere, you can make the rest > of us salivate as you list a day at the Grower level. > Those in the northern part can share various levels of > creativity as you mix the current with the stored or come up with > days of menus completely from your stored items. > > Sharon > gordonse@one.net >