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Lynn Shwadchuck
Sharbot Lake, ON, Canada
I downsized and moved to the bush in 2005. I eat cheap and green and just want to share how to do it.
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Lynn commented on the article |This article may show the future in North America. Things are worse down under, so thye're coming up with solutions.
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http://www.10in10diet.com/
(My way of helping poor young people eat healthy, and cheap while not making climate change any worse than we have to.) -
Lynn commented on the article |I started eating cheap, healthy and vegetarian two years before quitting my job and downsizing to the bush, just to find out how little I could really live on. It also happens to make a small carbon footprint. So, I've been eating this way for 5 or 6 years. I narrowed my supper choices to a short list of tasty peasant food from around the world and pretty much fixed lunch and breakfast to one or two choices. I spend $140 a month on groceries (includes some sundries). I serve guests the dinners I eat, nothing special for them, and they're always pleased. I've built a web site that supplies a printable cookbook and a menu plan. It's mostly plant-based, not depending much on dairy or eggs for protein. I'm hoping that climate change will motivate people, but the real incentive is eating cheap and tasty. Convenience is covered – most of the dinners are made in big batches so your freezer is full of single servings, ready to eat.
I'm also on a committee to promote local food producers. I garden and preserve and try to buy local. But my program is meant for underemployed and/or conscious young urbanites.
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Lynn commented on the article |I live in a sparsely populated rural area where farmers' markets have tried and failed. What our small committee has done is to put out a four-page insert in the local paper promoting local producers and featuring warm, friendly articles about them. The more people turn up at farm gates looking for produce, the more producers will bother to grow things we want. We had a bit of government money to print these – it only needs to smack of local economic development to garner grants. The more our little network grows, the more we can connect with the unconverted. Maybe even get people to eat less meat and think about avoiding packaged and shipped-from-afar foods altogether.
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I have a program for helping people simplify their eating habits.
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Lynn commented on the article |I agree that obsessing about organic is counterproductive. We have a spoiled generation of young people (my own two twenty-somethings tell me this) who live on fast food and frozen packaged meals. They don't know where to start when it comes to cooking with whole foods and eating mostly vegetarian. We need to change our habits sooner that later and too much idealistic hair-splitting makes it easy for fence-sitters to give up and go back to McDonald's. Please pass around my site, it's a whole program for eating simply, but tasty and especially cheap, which is great for the underemployed and students.
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Lynn commented on the article |
Thanks for posting on the responses to that article, which I was happy to see. I'm hoping to make it simple for young people especially to switch to a mostly plant-based diet. The incentive (which works best for most humans) is that it's really cheap.
I've got a whole program for eating cheap, green, healthy, convenient and vegetarian. It lets you select from homemade frozen single servings, so you only spend time cooking when you feel like it, and eat what you like best as fast as you can nuke it. I spend $140 a month on groceries. Have a look at my site. It has the menus, the recipes. It's easy and tasty. I just wanted to share what I've lived myself for several years now.
Happy eating,
Lynn Shwadchuck
www.10in10diet.com/
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