Your Essential Guide to Enjoy Local Foods! Eat Local is an essential
guide for enjoying local foods. While many have heard about local foods,
most don't know how to go about changing their food choices and
integrating local fare into their menus. This book is a concise,
easy-to-digest handbook for those interested in improving their diets
and menus with local, sustainable food choices. What you will learn: .
Eat Local Why and how to find, purchase, preserve and use local foods;
Benefits of local foods health, economic, environmental, and otherwise;
Seasonal local food eating strategies; Convenience: how purchasing local
foods can be far more convenient than you think; How to properly pick
local produce; Important questions to ask the farmer, grocer or other
food purveyor; Children's Health: How locally grown foods can be
integral in the fight against childhood obesity, while also better
promoting family traditions, & more. . Saving Money with Local Food
Practical shopping tips to save money with local foods; . Eat Well Local
food cooking & preparation tips, slow food, organic & sustainable
choices, plant-based diet options & more; . The Local Food Movement
Change and improve our "runaway food system" for future generations,
such as supporting school gardens or farm-to-school programs and hunger
projects, farmland protection, etc."
