June 2nd - Fast Food

Sweet Pea Home Catering (locally made frozen meals)

Artist Links:
Sybris
White Hinterland
Away Ri'o!
Yael Wand
The Gertrudes
KoRn
Maurice Jarre
Peter Nevland

Some more thoughts on growing your own food...and fast!
It takes a lot of work. Its very true that most people don't even have the time to cook for themselves nevermind tend their own garden . I have taken that into account in listing my alternatives. The great thing about the Farmers markets is that about half of it is full of pre-made dishes. For example, I regularly buy these monster cookies full of oats, flax and other healthy grains for breakfast. For lunch, I can pre-buy for the week, all the quesadillas, spring rolls, thai noodles, mini meat pies, and soups that I feel like eating for lunch throughout the week. Depending on what I get, the meals work out to $1.50-3.00 each. Not everyone can afford to even spend that per meal, so on nights that I take the time to make a good dinner I make at least twice what what we're going to eat that night and pre-pack the lunches for later that week. Its not a perfect system. Sometimes you forget to bring food, sleep in and miss the market, or what you want to buy from the market is sold out that week. What does that have to do with sustainable living? Thats the way life goes no matter what you're buying. Long story short; don't have time for good food? Pay someone at the market to do it for you!
The advantage of having the odd house plant that grows your own ingredients, is how little effort goes into them. Of course, you need the initial afternoon mucking around with pots and soil, but after that, its simply a matter of watering, and maybe adding the occasional fertilizer every now and then. Once certain plants are established (like the chili pepper) they just keep on putting out edible goodness as long as you don't take too much. Note the emphasis on not taking too much. The wee little basil plant in a house of bruscetta fanatics could be a good metaphor for resources and luxury-ridden developed nations. We all want bruscetta tonight, and our basil is down to the last 3 leaves. It will take at least four to sate our hunger. uh oh.

So here we are figuring who is going to get bruschetta and who isn't. Suddenly the cost of basil sky rockets and no one in the household can figure out why. So lets all learn how to only take our share using this simple little exercise of growing our favourite herbs in our window sill and seeing if we can keep it alive while still eating it at the same time.