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Vicki Robin
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Re-tox

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 29, 2013 December 29, 2013

Rounding the bend into week three, and thus seeing the end of September gleaming on the horizon, I wonder what will stick from this experiment in 10 mile eating. Or re-stick. I suspect I will never forget that just by eliminating grains and beans and …

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Bargaining; About a 10 mile range(r) chicken and more

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 28, 2013 March 22, 2018

In a money fixated world, local food is not a bargain unless it comes from your garden, and even then I’m sure I haven’t grown $400 worth of food (the cost of building and filling my beds this year).Well, as Tricia’s husband Kent has pointed …

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Meet my food system

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 27, 2013 March 22, 2018

Lesson Number One (repeat after me as many times as it takes to get through your thick skull): It’s not about me. This has been among my highest insights in my most expanded states of mind. It’s also clear that eating – however much it …

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Diets and Eating

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 26, 2013 December 26, 2013 2 Comments

Last night I stumbled into the food salon at the TED talks online. If you don’t know www.ted.com I recommend it highly – rich brain candy (which is not fattening). Mark Bittman, the cookbook author and on-air chef (how many are there now?) told us …

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Give me raw milk or give me death!

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 25, 2013 December 25, 2013 1 comment

I can’t tell you who provides me with milk because they are criminals. Yes, selling milk out your back door to neighbors who need it is illegal. Because some people have gotten sick due to unsanitary conditions at some farms (small and factory), all people …

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Cooked with love

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 24, 2013 December 24, 2013 3 Comments

Yesterday I attended the Transition Pacific Northwest Convergence with my day’s 10 mile food in tow to survive for 15 hours out of my eensy beensy micro bioregion. Chris Wolfe of Transition Whatcom County took on to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for all 60 …

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Will there be enough?

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 23, 2013 December 23, 2013 1 comment

I have to think about food way more than I used to – or differently than I am used to. Tomorrow I am going to a Regional Transition Convergence in Seattle where mostly local (to Seattle? Bellingham? 100 miles?) food will be lovingly prepared but …

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Cundir and Aprovechar

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 22, 2013 December 22, 2013

Traditional peoples have traditional words  to describe a way of life we’ve forgotten. I’m fluent in Spanish and learned two words my year in Spain in 1966 that aren’t in US English. Cundir and Aprovechar. Cundir means to make something last, go far. In English …

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Transforming our relationship with food

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 21, 2013 March 26, 2018

I just posted the below on my Your Money or Your Life blog about what I’m doing over here on my 10 mile diet blog. I want to share it with you as a piece of my learning. If you haven’t read Your Money or …

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Zackers and Zookies

10 mile diet / Blessing the Hands that Feed Us / Food & Food Systems December 20, 2013 March 26, 2018

I’m here before bed eating some zookies while I write this post. I had zackers earlier today with some goat cheese, but I felt like a bit of sweet tonight. Say what? In my search for crunch I learned that you could dehydrate Zucchini and …

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