New Sponsorship
Jessie | Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 5:15PM We have a very exciting announcement...Sweet Temptations is the first sponsor of the Greensboro, NC Locavore Makeover Project. (Click here to read all about the project on their blog). I have worked with Anne-Marie on numerous projects and our philosophies and tastes are deliciously in tune. It will be a true pleasure for Sweet Temptations to be working with Anne-Marie and the Locavore Makeover Project. Here is to the start of LOTS of collaboration and local ingredient baking ahead.
Backgound on the Project:
The Locavore Makeover Project is documenting a year in which two fast food centered families will learn to adopt a seasonal, local, organic and unprocessed food lifestyle. They will be shopping local farmer's markets, visiting farms and meeting the farmers, cooking foods from scratch and gardening in the spring. The project is being sponsored by Sweet Temptations, a Greensboro baking and catering company and led by a Registered Dietitian and locavore herself, Anne-Marie Scott.
At the very beginning: (excepted from the Locavore Blog)
The idea: to take a family (or a couple) that are living a very fast food lifestyle and help them, over the course of a year, to become locavores. Locavore being a person who tries to eat more local foods, cook from scratch, buy more foods according to seasonal, local and organic precepts. I (Anne-Marie) want to document the challenges and the joys of discovering that the food we eat can make our lives different. If someone wants to learn to preserve foods we can learn to can or dehydrate them. If you want a garden, let's start it. And, if you want urban chickens then I am here to teach you.
The idea is not to make anyone lose 100 pounds or get off their diabetes medication, but to find joy in the local foods community that Guilford County offers. If my participants do get healthier then what a great bonus, but it won't be the main purpose of the project. I can promise that by continuing down the path of the fast food lifestyle you won't get healthier so I guess my way may almost guarantee a positive change.
My ultimate goal is that by changing the way we eat we can change the world - one bite at a time.
So, I need to find a family/couple who wants to embark on this journey. I don't want a big family so, no more than two kids please and it is best if they are school age because I want everyone to document how they feel about the journey. I want the whole family to be willing to blog about the process and have their pictures/videos taken (who knows, maybe this will end up in a doc film someday?) This will also cost some time commitments and a little extra cash (possibly, but maybe not much more than the current food budget.) So, a family who has each kid going off in 6 directions constantly is not the family I want to start with - it's the family I want to help after my own feet are wet.
So, who am I that I want to do this. I am a Registered Dietitian who doesn't care much about "classic nutrition" meaning I am not here to put anyone on a diet. I believe that real foods will cure most of what ails us and that it is the processed food that we eat that is causing a lot of our societal bad health and obesity. This is not a research project and it has no funding and no purpose other than my own dreams to help others learn where there food comes from and how to prepare it. What is that classic quote, "give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish and prepare salmon croquettes and he eats deliciously for a lifetime!"
I want to teach real people with real busy lives that eating real food is easy and fun and the healthiest option for a dozen reasons - not just good health. I cook, work and have a 5 year old little girl. I have not always had perfect health or a slim waistline. (Actually I still don't have either, but I am a heck of a lot closer since adopting this locavore lifestyle than I ever was the other way.) But, enough about me - you'll get more of that as we go along. I have the expertise and the willingness - are you with me?
Reader Comments (2)
"My ultimate goal is that by changing the way we eat we can change the world - one bite at a time." This statement is very inspiring. I hope that you will be able to achieve this. We will be looking forward for this.
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