Any 'Alternative' Diets Here?

[CedarMist]

I'm wondering if there are any vegans, freegans, locavores, or raw-foodists here? I'd love to hear whether people's diets--the very things that allow us to keep living--have been influenced by Druidry or your spiritual philosophies in general.

...also whether there are any locavore vegetarians have winter recipes to share ; )

I'm a vegetarian. I'm trying more and more to eat organic and local (therefore seasonal) foods from the farmer's market, but it's tough in February (called the 'dead of winter' for a reason, I suppose). It's such a wonderful experience to know the face of the person who grew your food, what farm it came from...so cool!

Anyways, please share!!

[DJ Droood]

...also whether there are any locavore vegetarians have winter recipes to share ; )!

I'm trying to be more locavore...I don't consider it "alternative" though...I think of it as the baseline, normal diet....although I recognize most people have fallen for the recent (last few decades) marketing fad of eating tortured animals every night, trucked in from hundreds of miles away.

You should start a recipe thread!

[Kima]

Same as DJ Droood, really: I'm trying to be as local as I can (but not having a car makes it harder) and/or organic. When I lived in Canterbury a couple years ago I managed to go through the year relying almost entirely on the farmer's market there, but it's harder in Geneva. Plus in Switzerland, winter lasts even longer. I'm still waiting for the snowdrops mentioned in the Imbolc booklet but the ground is frozen - I even saw a thin ice sheet on a lake this morning

[DJ Droood]

I'm still waiting for the snowdrops mentioned in the Imbolc booklet but the ground is frozen - I even saw a thin ice sheet on a lake this morning

haha..yes...the magical OBOD snowdrops, harbinger of spring. Around here, it is announced in May when long forgotten dogdrops start thawing in the sun.

[Kima]

I'm still waiting for the snowdrops mentioned in the Imbolc booklet but the ground is frozen - I even saw a thin ice sheet on a lake this morning

haha..yes...the magical OBOD snowdrops, harbinger of spring. Around here, it is announced in May when long forgotten dogdrops start thawing in the sun.

Snowflakes will have to do then (though there hasn't been much snow here this winter) and in the meanwhile there's cabbage and potatoes to eat. At least I'm not a vegetarian.

[Kima]

Another problem I have:

There's an organic shop close to mine where I often go in the hope of feeding myself, but everything seems to contain palm oil and comes from either Asia or south America... hopeless.

With regional food I sometimes have the opposite problem: produce are local but might not be pesticide-free and may well have grown in energy-consuming green houses.... hopeless.

So I go and buy food from the supermarket! They have lots of organic stuff. It often isn't "regional" on a Swiss scale but I'm sure some Americans would laugh at me for fretting over the provenance of non-regional Swiss food Zurich?!! That's THREE HOURS away!

[DJ Droood]

So I go and buy food from the supermarket! They have lots of organic stuff. It often isn't "regional" on a Swiss scale but I'm sure some Americans would laugh at me for fretting over the provenance of non-regional Swiss food Zurich?!! That's THREE HOURS away!

The system doesn't make it easy, that is for sure...most of modern life seems to be about choosing the lesser of evils. Can you eat sugar beets? They seemed to be piled up in fields and rail cars all over the country

[Mountainheart]

Can you eat sugar beets? They seemed to be piled up in fields and rail cars all over the country

Yes apparently : you can make soup with them or stew. See http://www.buzzle.com/articles/sugar-beets.html for recipes.

Enjoy

David

[Kima]

Can you eat sugar beets? They seemed to be piled up in fields and rail cars all over the country

Yes apparently : you can make soup with them or stew. See http://www.buzzle.com/articles/sugar-beets.html for recipes.

Enjoy

David

There's white sugar, of course! I believe that many of them are for cattle. I've never stewed them but perhaps I should try?