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This Challenge is Not Unique

No matter how excited I am about this challenge MANY people have done this or something similar but different, my challenge is not entirely unique. To me that is okay, and I would like to take a post sharing some of my favorite inspirations:

1. https://www.100daysofrealfood.com

It is about a family that went 100 days only eating real food. I stumbled on this 7 years ago? It was one of the most radical ideas surrounding food I had heard of at the time.

2. Plenty by Alisa Smith and J.B Mackinnon

I actually think this book had a different name the first time I read it, but it is about a couple that only eats food within 100 miles for a year.

3. Farm City by Novella Carpenter

This woman has an urban farm in Oakland CA with pigs and poultry and bees. She doesn't follow rules and doesn't ask permission.

4. Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

A woman and her family eat locally/seasonally for a year

5. Rob Greenfield- he only ate things he grew, foraged, or caught for a year

6. I found this blog a couple months ago when I was looking at naming mine. A couple back in 2010 also did a year without using grocery stores

http://ayearwithoutgroceries.blogspot.com


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