Amaranth
12-7-12, 9:20pm
Food Challenges and Experiments for 2013
Let’s choose a couple of food experiments for 2013.
Some possibilities:
1) Living below the Line Challenge
$7.50 for food for 5 days
Good challenge for anytime of the year
Challenge is currently done internationally
2) $2 a day challenge for 7 days
Challenge is currently done internationally
Participants are encourage to collaborate
Oil/Garlic/Herb/Spice/Salt challenge kit is usually provided to groups of participants
3) What I Eat—Sadhu challenge
2 days on pilgrimage ingredients
3 days on home base ingredients
Good challenge for winter
4) What I Eat---One of the healthier whole foods menus
Which ones would most interest you?
5 days
Good late spring, summer or fall when our gardens would match up well with produce
My top choice would be the first one listed and it has the bonus of being frugal.
China-Lan Guihua—The Citrus Grower 1900 (Late June or July for most of those foods to be fresh from the garden)
Taiwan—Lin Hui-wen The Street Food Vendor 2700. Spring or Fall for garden vegetable match
Yemen—Saada Haidar—The Homemaker 2700. Summer(July or August) for vegetables and fruits to match
Latvia—Aivars Radzinx—The Beekeeper 3100. Any time as most foods are year round. Tomato and cucumber could be purchased if out of season.
Ecuador—Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo—The Mountain Farmer 3800. Anytime but the foods would be most appealing in cold weather.
USA¬¬—Joel Salatin—The Sustainable Farmer—3900. This one is mostly a mix of summer and fall ingredients, so either season could work.
Italy—Riccardo Casagrande—The Friar—4000. Most of the vegetables are summer vegetables.
5) Food stamp allotment
$21-35 for a week, depending on level of the challenge
Usually done as an empty pantry challenge
Participants sometimes split pantry items
Any time
6) Food stamp allotment plus garden
$21-35 for a week, depending on level of the challenge
Minus the value of the seed for items eaten that week
Usually done as an empty pantry challenge
Participants sometimes split pantry items
Late spring, summer or fall when the garden is producing well
7) Hungry Planet Challenge
Sudanese Refugees in Chad p57
7 day challenge
Good winter challenge as items are mostly pantry items
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
See photo 3 http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373680,00.html
8) Hungry Planet Challenge
One of the more whole foods oriented diets where most of the foods can be easily grown/gotten by people on the forum
7 day challenge
The ones below are mostly whole foods and fairly frugal or could be grown in the garden.
China-Cui family in village p82 —Produce probably tastiest in July or August
Bhutan p 37 Summer Vegetables
Mali p207—Anytime a frugal menu
Chad-2nd family p68—Anytime as most items are dried
Ecuador-p 107—Probably best in winter.
Egypt p119—Summer Vegetables
India p167—Summer Vegetables
9) Choose a limited amount of basic pantry items and then otherwise eat from the garden.
7 day challenge
Good chance to turn garden items into a diversity of foods
Could be done in any season with fresh or stored food.
10) Grow a small Vitamin Garden per person. Use the appropriate quota of food from it each day. For example usually every 16 square feet can provide 1 serving of vegetables per day. So a Salad Table or a 4x4 garden would provide 1 vegetable per day. A 4x25 foot garden would do about 6 servings per day. With good planning a 4x25 foot garden can be intensively gardened in 1-2 hours per week.
11) $1 or $2 or $10 or 12 packet garden experiement
Get that much in seeds. See how much food we can grow.
Which challenges would be the most appealing or enlightening for you? What other challenges would you like to try?
Let’s choose a couple of food experiments for 2013.
Some possibilities:
1) Living below the Line Challenge
$7.50 for food for 5 days
Good challenge for anytime of the year
Challenge is currently done internationally
2) $2 a day challenge for 7 days
Challenge is currently done internationally
Participants are encourage to collaborate
Oil/Garlic/Herb/Spice/Salt challenge kit is usually provided to groups of participants
3) What I Eat—Sadhu challenge
2 days on pilgrimage ingredients
3 days on home base ingredients
Good challenge for winter
4) What I Eat---One of the healthier whole foods menus
Which ones would most interest you?
5 days
Good late spring, summer or fall when our gardens would match up well with produce
My top choice would be the first one listed and it has the bonus of being frugal.
China-Lan Guihua—The Citrus Grower 1900 (Late June or July for most of those foods to be fresh from the garden)
Taiwan—Lin Hui-wen The Street Food Vendor 2700. Spring or Fall for garden vegetable match
Yemen—Saada Haidar—The Homemaker 2700. Summer(July or August) for vegetables and fruits to match
Latvia—Aivars Radzinx—The Beekeeper 3100. Any time as most foods are year round. Tomato and cucumber could be purchased if out of season.
Ecuador—Maria Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo—The Mountain Farmer 3800. Anytime but the foods would be most appealing in cold weather.
USA¬¬—Joel Salatin—The Sustainable Farmer—3900. This one is mostly a mix of summer and fall ingredients, so either season could work.
Italy—Riccardo Casagrande—The Friar—4000. Most of the vegetables are summer vegetables.
5) Food stamp allotment
$21-35 for a week, depending on level of the challenge
Usually done as an empty pantry challenge
Participants sometimes split pantry items
Any time
6) Food stamp allotment plus garden
$21-35 for a week, depending on level of the challenge
Minus the value of the seed for items eaten that week
Usually done as an empty pantry challenge
Participants sometimes split pantry items
Late spring, summer or fall when the garden is producing well
7) Hungry Planet Challenge
Sudanese Refugees in Chad p57
7 day challenge
Good winter challenge as items are mostly pantry items
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
See photo 3 http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373680,00.html
8) Hungry Planet Challenge
One of the more whole foods oriented diets where most of the foods can be easily grown/gotten by people on the forum
7 day challenge
The ones below are mostly whole foods and fairly frugal or could be grown in the garden.
China-Cui family in village p82 —Produce probably tastiest in July or August
Bhutan p 37 Summer Vegetables
Mali p207—Anytime a frugal menu
Chad-2nd family p68—Anytime as most items are dried
Ecuador-p 107—Probably best in winter.
Egypt p119—Summer Vegetables
India p167—Summer Vegetables
9) Choose a limited amount of basic pantry items and then otherwise eat from the garden.
7 day challenge
Good chance to turn garden items into a diversity of foods
Could be done in any season with fresh or stored food.
10) Grow a small Vitamin Garden per person. Use the appropriate quota of food from it each day. For example usually every 16 square feet can provide 1 serving of vegetables per day. So a Salad Table or a 4x4 garden would provide 1 vegetable per day. A 4x25 foot garden would do about 6 servings per day. With good planning a 4x25 foot garden can be intensively gardened in 1-2 hours per week.
11) $1 or $2 or $10 or 12 packet garden experiement
Get that much in seeds. See how much food we can grow.
Which challenges would be the most appealing or enlightening for you? What other challenges would you like to try?