The Hard Lunch

Wow today was a hard hard lunch for me. It seems that on the second day of BLOM the school has a barbecue. That means while I was eating my (nonetheless good) lunch of my leftovers of dinner, organic local lettuce, organic local yogurt, and organic local beetroot I was watching people chow on burgers, hot dogs, potato chips, watermelon, and ice cream. The burgers and the ice cream wasn't so appealing but the rest was very. To add to that we celebrated someone's birthday in class and I had to eat my organic local yogurt while I watched people eat cupcakes and cookies. It's not as hard as I make it out to be at school, but when I got home, it was a temptation to snack, even on some celery. Again this is what I was talking about snacking. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I forgot to mention my breakfast. It was organic (not so local) oats with some local (not so organic) honey. It was bland but it was okay.
When I got home hungry, my mom said that once this week ends I shouldn't eat completely unhealthily, and I agree with her, because that would defeat the purpose. It's not to go a week for a record, it's to try to eat more eco-friendly.

For dinner it was local chicken with organic local sweet potatoes and organic local herbs. Now with this chicken my mom said sheepishly that it was actually not organic but that it was all natural, the chickens were free ranging, and they were grass fed. Now from reading the Omnivore's Dilemma, I knew that some farms were not labeled Organic because they didn't manage to get certified but that didn't mean they were not using organic methods. A farm is allowed to put anything they want on their package like all natural and grass fed but they were not allowed to say organic. Now from Omnivore's Dilemma I also learned not to always trust free range, but since this was all natural, free range, and grass fed, plus it was local, I ate it. Here is a picture of another organic local chicken the rest of my family ate (my chicken would have to sustain me for the rest of my week (sort of)). Their's had potatoes which I couldn't eat, so I took a picture showing how two meals can be different but look the same. It would have helped the purpose more if my family had cooked a non organic chicken but it's good they were eating organic too. Mine is on the right, their's is on the left.

Well that's the BLOMer signing out.