Buy Local Food : Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"
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Buy Local Food : Strawberries, blueberries and many other kinds of fruit often are available from farms that allow you to do the harvesting (or not, if you prefer to pay for the cost of picking). Many fruits are easy to freeze, and apples will keep all winter in a cool corner of the garage.
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Buy Local Food : It’s easy to take locally abundant foods for granted when they’re in season, but you can enjoy many locally produced foods out of season by stocking up. Storing big baskets of hazelnuts (in the Northwest) or pecans (in the Southeast) will come naturally if you start thinking like a squirrel. Look for foods that keep well, such as nuts, honey, winter squash and sweet potatoes and stock up.
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Beef advice
Even today, you are best off visiting a butcher rather than a self-service store. A proper butcher is far more likely to serve a better range of beef cuts than the self-service store, he will be more proud of the quality of his beef, is likely to have stored it properly, and he will usually be proud to advise you on how best too cook it.
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Beef is a lot more popular in the Usa than anyplace else in the world. If one were to sum up the steaks, burgers and chilis consumed in the world, you would find that the 'u.s.' eats just about a quarter of the beef.
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