One Local Summer::Week 2

I was completely uninspired and too busy with the kids and getting ready for our second boating adventure (overnight!) that I may have copped out a little this week.
For breakfast Saturday morning I had a Monteray Jill Cheese Omlette, with a slice of homemade rye bread. As mentioned in my first week’s post, the eggs are from a local farm, and the cheese from Qualicum Cheeseworks.

The rye bread is from this fabulous book, and I adore making the bread recipes and feeling all clever and home-baked in no time. However, none of the ingredients are local. It did inspire me to look for local flour, and I could buy locally made bread in Cowichan Bay at the True Grain Bakery or at least, locally milled flour to make my own bread. I am going to attempt to get to Cowichan Bay before the end of the challenge and get both the flour and the bread.
The apple is a B.C. Tree Fruit (or so my local supermarket claims) so I’m guessing it’s from the Okanagon. Not within the 100 miles, but the picture needed some color and I love me some fruit. I have a feeling this was picked in the fall and stored because apples are certainly not in season right now. Strawberries are, but I haven’t seen any local sellers.
The coffee doesn’t even come close to meeting ANY requirements of the challenge, just the requirements of a Mama of a 2 mth old and a 20 mth old. It did motivate me to look for some more local options and I found Creekmore Coffee which is very close to my house and offers organic, fair trade coffee. We may never get local coffee, but I guess this is the next best thing! Will certainly be changing my coffee-buying habits from here on out.
If this challenge is doing anything for me, its forcing me to do the research I’ve been putting off for years.