Day 3

Well I am very excited to find out today that Four Leaf Milling Co. grow and mill Biodynamic grains of all sorts including brown rice within 100 miles of Aldinga! YAY! We all thought we would need to give up rice this year, but we will be well provided for via Four Leaf and the Singing Cricket Food Co-op.
Yesterday we had our first hiccough with the diet. We went into town to pick up my nephew and the boys were all hungry. We saw a Lillydale Chicken shop (I did not know they existed - I was impressed) Yum - Free Range chicken for tea. They even had recycled cardboard takeaway containers. However - we all learned something - their chickens come from VICTORIA! So we left the shop and missed an opportunity to share with the staff why we were leaving. I decided in the car to use those opportunities to share our project in future.
We went next door to the supermarket "spread out and look for the local foods." I say to the troops. I had no idea that potato chips are all made in NSW. or VIC. We struggled to find anything that was made in SA. Eventually we found the old faithfuls - Farmer's Union iced coffee, Fleurieu iced coffee, and Balfours cakes. We chatted for a while about the lack of local food available, and then realised that coffee has to be imported, and we had no idea where Balfours source their flour. Oh Dear.
Then comes the question, do we only concern ourselves with the main ingredients? If Balfours and Farmer's Union use local flour and milk, is that then OK for our project or are we going to be strict about the other ingredients too?
Will we end up eating only meat from Phaedra's farm, local fruit and veg in season, local grains, and having to cook all of our own food?

I am starting to wonder who thought this was a good idea.
One added bonus is we are having great conversations about food!