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I made venison meatloaf, boiled spuds and lettuce salad from my garden. It's all local, including the breadcrumbs, salsa and eggs in the meatloaf. Just the salad dressing and butter wasn't made by me.
12 spuds is 1320 cal.
2 lbs. Meatloaf is 1600 cal.
Salad with dressing is 600 cal.
3520 total, 7 plates

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Yesterday I made homeade enchiladas from scratch! The chicken was raised by me, the wheat tortillas were rolled out by me from local flour, even the sauce, which I've never made before, was made from tomatoes from my garden which I had freeze dried.
It was a lot of work, but I've been playing with the idea of just how many wonderful meals can be made at home.
Plus a salad from my homegrown lettuce, which is in full swing in the greenhouse. The pepper and cheese on one of the pans wasn't localally produced.
3800 cal estimated. 7 plates.

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I made German pancakes and served them with cherry syrup. I used .my duck eggs and flour from the local organic farm. 1500 cal = 3 plates.

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I made biscuits and gravy for breakfast again yesterday. 1 pound of deer sausage, 544 cal
8 cups of gravy, 1100 cal
12 biscuits from local flour. 1800 cal
The lard and milk I used wasn't local.
3,440 caltotal. 6 plates.

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I'm very proud of my Easter Sunday spread. We colored duck eggs for the holiday, then made 2 dozen of them into deviled eggs. I was given steelhead fish and smoked it for dinner. Flat bread also was served along with honeycomb from my bees last year. Finally, broccoli shoots from the greenhouse garden rounded out a balanced meal 😋
Eggs 2980
Fish 2200 (220 cal per 100g serving)
Bread 2400 (300 cal each)
Honeycomb (1660 in one pound)
Veg. 260 cal

9500 cal. Is 19 plates. The only not local side item served was butter!

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Current total: 291 plates.

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Peaches and pudding for dinner. Includes my home-canned peaches, 11 peaches, 90 calories each= 990cal, and homeade vanilla pudding, 250 per recipe, which I quadrupled. 1000 cal. I used my duck eggs, the butter my kids made for a bb earlier this week, homeade vanilla and homeade plant milk, and the honey my bees produced. Only thing not locally produced was corn starch!
1990 cal, but I don't know how to total the syrup inside this jar, since my lids downed it before i could meaure. Im assuming it was at least 10 more calories, making at least 4 plates.

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I baked up two of my chickens. I'll only count one here, since I'll use the other for chicken meals in the week. I boiled potatoes and steamed broccoli. The broccoli and butter served for the spuds wasn't local. 4,000 cal

I made enchiladas again, but only half as much as last time, since my big kids and hubby are away for a big track meet. The salad served had wild lettuce, dandelion, mallow, lambs quarters and lettuce, all of which I grew! Just the salad dressings weren't local.
1400 cal.

5400 calories is 10 plates.

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Bean burgers on my homeade bread with salad greens, sprouts, and pickled beets that I produced! ☺️ The avocado's weren't local
1 loaf of bread = 2296 cal
Salad = 600 cal
Avocadoes = 500cal
Total 3396cal or 6 plates.

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German pancakes and berry syrup! It used 12 of my duck eggs for the pancakes and 2 cups of local flour. The almond milk I used for the batter was not local. I made the cherry syrup last year from my home-grown cherries, but the fresh blackberries I added in were not super local.
Two pans of pancakes: 2,832 calories
One quart of cherry, strawberry syrup: 2,260 cal
Total: 5,092 cal or 10 plates

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Roast duck, boiled potatoes, giant salad.
I raised the duck. Opalyn helped me butcher it! The spuds are locally gleaned and the salad greens came from my greenhouse. I made a salad dressing for my salad out of homeade applesauce, maple syrup and tahini. But my family uses store bought dressings, pictured here.
Roast duck: 1800 calories (smallish duck)
8 big spuds: 1440 calories
Salad and dressing: 1,100 cal
4,340 total is 8 plates

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Waffles and homeade cherry syrup. My duck eggs plus local, organic wheat flour. I made the syrup from cherries from my cherry tree. 2,000 calories is 4 plates.

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My kids and I wanted to try making ravioli! The noodle pasta is made with local flour and my duck eggs. We used cashew cream cheese that I made earlier with onions, basil, Chives and mushrooms from my garden.
I served it with broccoli and homeade applesauce. The broccoli and olive oil were the only not local ingredients! 😁
1088 calories in the pasta, 600 in the stuffing, about 400 calories in a quart of applesauce. About 200 calories in 6 cups of broccoli. 2288 calories is 4 plates.

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Pancakes and jelly. 2000 cal, 4 plates
Roasted chicken and potatoes and veg. 1500+1500+500= 3500, or 7 plates
Waffles and applesauce. 2,000 cal 4 plates
Breakfast hash. 4 eggs, 520 cal 6 spuds, 900 cal 1 lb deer sausage. 719cal. 3 TBSP Deer tallow 300 cal. Total 2,439 5 plates.

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German pancakes and homeade syrup. 10 plates
Salad 1 goosefoot, applesauce and taihini and peas, all from garden except taihini 600 cal, 1 plate
Salad 2 lettuce, green onion and salsify from my garden. Chicken. I raised. Dressing not local. 700 cal. 1 plate.

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German pancakes again. 10 plates.

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Deer sausage, 1400 cal,
and hashbrowns from 4 bid spuds 600 cal.
4 plates

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Venison finger steaks, served with potato salad and sauerkraut. 2 lb. Of venison steaks, cut and breaded with my duck eggs and local wheat flour. 1850cal
10 big spuds in a tater salad made of homeade mayo and spices from my herb garden. 2800 cal.
Sauerkraut, about half a cup per person. 108 calories,
4758 cal, 9 plates.

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Zucchini from my garden. Duck eggs I raised, applesauce I made, flax I grew and flour that's organic and local. 115cal x 8 is 920cal

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I've been on a healthy kick, with a fruit and veggie at every meal. Aiming to grow or forage all of them! 😁
First is a serviceberry bowl. It's got berries I foraged, sprouts I grew, some black beans and oats that are organic.

Second is deer sausage and flax muffin I made, cucumber I grew and cantaloupe from the farmers market.

Finally, cherry tomatoes and raspberries from my garden, waffle and sausage I made from local ingredients.

3 meals

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Gotta look up calorie count for this recipe

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In this post, I had originally shown elk burgers on homeade buns with homeade fries... cooked on a silicone baking mat. Oops! The 9 meals have been redacted from the final total, and from here on out, I tried switching to brown parchment paper. I would use it a few times until it got too dark or too beat up.

Using any type of mat/paper is in an effort to use less fat calories, since I didnt have many sources of local fat. Trying to save the precious tallow.

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Calories for rhe muffins is 84 cal per muffin, 20 muffins makes 1680 or 3 plates.

Calories for crepes is 560 for crepes, 1400 for syrup, making over 2,000 cal. For 4 plates.

406 total plates that count for this bb so far! More than halfway done with this BB! And I'm comming into the harvest season, which makes fresh local food easier.

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So I was able to pick up abother 2 big bags of local flour. Should help me with the 2nd half of this bb!

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Breakfast: 1400 calories for 2 pounds of elk sausage,
1500 for pancakes, 300 for carrots, 600 for cherry syrup. 3800 is 7 plates

2 pounds of venison, 1100 seasoned taco deer meat,
About 500 calories of salad. 1600 cal is 3 "plates"

French toast is about 150 calories per slice, 10 slices here, with cherry syrup being 600 calories, 300 cal. Pears and carrots each. 2700 is 5 plates.

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2 lbs elk meat, 1400 cal.
30 tortillas, made with deer tallow at 75 calories each 2,250
Pico 600 calories.
I even served homade green taco sauce. Negligible calories.
4,200cal. Is 8 plates.

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These lentil Flour pancakes are about 200 calories per chunky serving. Plus sprouts, leeks and mushrooms from my garden. Only the avocado isn't local. 500 calories

Chicken noodle soup. 1800 calories as previously stated. 3 plates.

Each applesauce muffins is 150 calories each. 20 muffins is 3,000 plus a handful of apricots is 100 calories per person. 8 people. 3800 calories or 7 plates.

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440 qualifying meals this far.

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One of my favorites breakfasts:
Whole wheat berry cereal, served with local honey, dried fruit and non-local peanut butter.

2 c. Wheat- 1300 cal
1c. Dried fruit 420 cal
1/2 c. Peanut butter 720cal
1/2 c. Honey 515cal

About 3000 cal or 6 plates.

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Sausage and hashbrowns with tortillas
500cal elk sausage,
Local potatoes, 1,000cal

3 plates

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Waffles and cherry jelly
1500cal waffles, 400 jelly, about 4 plates

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Toad in a hole breakfast

7eggs, 500cal
7 toasts 700cal

2 plates

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1 gallon Chicken noodle soup, 200cal a cup.
3200 cal or 6 plates

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For 2 people

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Waffles for breakfast again. 1500cal, 3 plates

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Peaches, toast, 3 of my brothers chicken eggs and purslane, my fav. Wild edible. 1 plate

Crabapple pie 2,000cal, 4 plates

Elk tenderloin-1500cal
mashed potatoes- 800cal
Fresh beefsteaks, 200cal
and homegrown corn on the cob! 720cal
3220cal dinner total. 6 plates

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Chicken salad sandwiches made with my home-raised chicken, duck egg mayo, home made bread with localally produced flour, squash/onions, and peaches I grew 🤎

Bread 2000cal
Chicken filling 1600cal
Squash 150cal
Peaches 400cal

4000cal or 8 plates

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