Breakfast
Sunday, May 24, began with a very non-local breakfast - cold cereal. My dad and step-mom were in town visiting, and I knew that I needed to get the lawn mowed before they arrived for breakfast. With all of the rain we've been getting, you can't pass up any opportunity to beat the grass back into submission! That's one thing about convenience foods - they're convenient! Plus, frankly, I was getting tired of scrambled eggs!
Lunch
When my dad and step-mom arrived, we had lunch on the front porch - cheese sandwiches, salad, and strawberries. The strawberries were local, as was the salad. The bread was made in our bread machine, using bread mix from Hodgson Mill, a company located in Effingham, IL (85 miles southeast of Springfield). Is the wheat they use local? Probably not, but it's as local as we can get at the moment. The cheese was from Wisconsin. The salad dressings were not local.
Dinner
For dinner, we invoked the social exemption and had dinner with them at Baker's Square. I had a BLT and fries. Well, at least all of the ingredients could have been local, even though they almost certainly weren't.
The next day they were heading back to Texas, so that was it for the social exemption for awhile!
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