Eating Out, Eating In

Saturday I realized that I have spent a lot of years not giving much thought to what I eat. I decided, at the last minute, to go with Jon to Niagara Falls to visit the Outlet Mall. Jon was doing a wedding and what better thing for me to do than shop? So right before we left I remembered there would be no snacks for me at the mall and I had better eat something like breakfast. So I had a piece of the bread Jon made the day before.


While walking through the mall I was very thirsty. In the past I would have purchased something to drink, and probably a snack along with it. But soft drinks do not fit our local criteria. One of my friends did remind me that we have a bottling plant here, so it must be local. But, soda does not meet our criteria. I picked up the things I was looking for at the mall -- a new salad spnner since our cats broke the old one, a metal scraper for the bread board -- things we need for all of our home made food. And then I went back to pick up Jon.


We wondered if there was a farmers' market in Niagara Falls and drove around looking for one, but found nothing. I mentioned to Jon how even on the third day there were lots of changes. He said, "Yeah, before we would have stopped somewhere for lunch by now." And that is the challenge for us. We have been eating out a lot. We always talk about eating at home more, but still have found ourselves eating out, frequently. So now we eat at home.


We are still eating things we already had -- so lunch was hotdogs, at home. They were good. Then we had dinner with vegetables from Porter Farms, and homemade pesto on homemade bread. Local food, made at home -- really is the best thing ever.