Our local lunch was as easy to prepare as it was delicious. As with breakfast, it was convenient not to have to travel to a dining hall or eatery—instead we had a miniature picnic in my dorm room. For the lunch we made sandwiches with fresh bread from Market Shares (to our pleasant surprise the bread stayed fresh even after a few days) as well as a sundried tomato feta spread, fresh tatsoi and fresh mozzarella (from the farmers’ market). We also ate a few delicious carrots and washed it all down with a glass of local milk.
The whole process was simple, quick, and yummy. Perhaps our biggest challenge came from the fact that we, as college students, simply lack the kitchen supplies normally needed to make a meal. For instance, cutting a loaf of bread with a butter knife can take a while…nevertheless, the food was great and filling. Perhaps my favorite thing about this meal was that afterwards I felt full, but not in a heavy, I-can’t-move-or-I’ll-explode sort of way. The food is light and leaves you feeling refreshed rather than overly full.
I had expected our local meals would be significantly more labor intensive, but lunch was surprisingly easy to pull off. Because we only made sandwiches, there were almost no dishes and the preparation time was minimal. A more extensive meal would definitely have been more time-intensive, but at least for local sandwiches, the whole process took very little work!
The ambience around eating local foods is also remarkably different. Rather than sitting in a bustling and noisy dining hall, we were able to play our own music and eat where and when we wanted to. Of course the community and plain quantity of people found in a dining hall cannot quite be replicated when making a small, local meal, but if you get enough friends involved, you can create a (local) community of your own just the way you want it!
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