Eat Local Simple Steps: Your Online Guide to Enjoy Local Food!
Your step-by-step guide for finding, purchasing, cooking, and saving money with local food.
Welcome to this companion website and blog to the new book, Eat Local: Simple Steps to Enjoy Real, Healthy & Affordable Food. We hope that this website and book will become your one-stop online resource for finding, purchasing and eating food produced close to you (wherever you live in the USA), and for improving diet and nutrition with sustainable food choices.
On Eat Local Simple Steps you will find
- Benefits of eating fresh, locally grown food: All the great things you’ll discover when you eat freshly produced and prepared meals: the exquisite taste of seasonal foods, health and ecological benefits, and more! (Includes tips to get started eating fresh foods.) See also: “Eat Local: First Steps.”
- Finding food grown or produced near you: How to find, purchase and preserve fresh produce, including farmers markets, “CSAs,” farm stands, online and newspapers, co-ops, buying clubs, restaurants, U-pick, foraging and even in your nearby grocery store!
- Saving money: Tips to save money by buying locally grown;
- Eat well – Slow food, cooking tips, organic food, sustainable food, making ethical food choices;
- Join the local food movement: How to get off the “runaway train” of our modern, unhealthy food system and help ensure a safe and sustainable food system for future generations: supporting area farmers; starting school gardens or farm to school programs, hunger projects, farmland protection, and more! See also: “Local Food Movement.”
With all the headlines about “local food” and “eat local“ in the headlines, consumers are rapidly becoming aware that regional food is good for our health, communities, regional farmers and farmland. It is convenient, economical and fun, and it tastes great! Small wonder that consumers, grocers and restaurateurs at all levels of our nation’s culinary food chain are heading to farmer’s markets, pick-your-own farms, and otherwise shopping for freshly-harvested food in droves.
Yet for many people, “eating local” remains on their to-do list, as they find that reading a 300 page tome on the subject, or scouring all over the internet for information, more than they want to know – all they want are the “simple steps” on how to get started enjoying local food – how to find it and how to use it. For these reasons and more, local-foods activist and registered dietitian Jasia Steinmetz, authored the newly released title “Eat Local: Simples Steps to Enjoy Real, Healthy & Affordable Food” – a simple, step-by-step roadmap for improving diet and nutrition with local, sustainable food choices.
It takes a village to eat local! Please feel free to share your knowledge and experience with local and sustainable foods by adding your comments and suggestions for this website… and enjoy the local food journey!
For more information about the book, go to Eat Local: Simple Steps to Enjoy Real, Health & Affordable Food.