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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Buy Local Food : ...but at the same time, figure out what makes sense. It is more energy efficient to raise lambs in New Zealand and ship them to the UK than to raise them in the UK, because New Zealand lamb farming is more energy efficient. It is also more energy efficient to buy produce raised in Spain, than produce that has to be grown in greenhouses in the UK. Baby steps require figuring out which things make sense and which don't.

Orange-Cranberry Bread (Abm)

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Ingredients And Procedures

1/2 c Dried cranberries

x Zest from 1 orange 2 c White bread flour

2 c Whole wheat flour

1 Packet/2 1/4 tsp yeast

1 tb Sugar or honey

1 ts Salt

2 3 tsp cinnamon

x Juice from the orange plus Water to make 1 1/2 cups Follow usual procedures (oat bread cycle helps). I think this one's a bit higher, something like 80 cal, 0.6 g fat/ounce.

Posted by "Bruce E. Wilson" to the Fatfree Digest [Volume 13 Issue 7] Dec. 7, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@Prodigy.com using MMCONV. 1.80?

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