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Prepare 3200 Plates of Food - food.iron.plates PEP BB

BB Food Prep and Preservation - iron badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the iron badge in Food Prep and Preservation

For this badge bit, you will prepare 3200 plates of food!


(source: Pinterest.com)

Requirements for all Food Prep and Preservation Iron BB's:
99% of the calories for this badge are “organic or better”
90% of the calories come from homesteading, preferably from your own homestead
  - Nearby homestead or wild harvest (forage/hunting/fishing) is ok
      - Their food values need to be “organic or better”
      - Acquired with muscle power (bike/horse/foot)
      - Trade, purchase or gifted is fine

Minimum requirements for this BB:
- Prepare 3200 plates of food
  - “Plate” means a meal averaging at least 500 calories
  - At least 400 plates need to be 100% from your homestead
      - Salt from off-site is allowed
  - Food prep log (your thread at Permies) showing each meal with description of where the food came from
      - Start a new log for Iron
      - Each post covers at least 3 meals
      - Summarizes source of the ingredients (store or homestead)
      - Maintains total count of plates produced
      - Maintains total count of plates produced from 100% homestead food

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 mins):
   - link to food prep log (meeting the above stated requirements)
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Is there a set time in which the 3200 meals have to be prepared?
 
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Nope, it's a "before you die" thing.  I'm taking a picture of my breakfast every day.  I should have this one in about 8 years.....
 
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Well Mike, if you can meet this in that time frame with just pictures of your breakfast, it gives me hope, because my normal breakfasts are about 2000 Kcal... (I can prove my caloric intake, as I've had some doctors question it, and have me track & record it for a few weeks, but I also eat between 4000-6000 calories each day...)

My breakfast this morning wouldn't count because it wasn't locally sourced, but I now have a better target 😉

This last week has been at Wheaton Labs / Allerton Abbey, and we brought nearly all our food from Illinois with us... The eggs were gifted from a friend's farmhouse chickens, but the rest of it was purchased retail, mostly from Costco.

In all seriousness, is this about the calorie count, or the number of plates filled?
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Breakfast this morning 😊
Breakfast this morning 😊
 
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Per a discussion with Paul, the requirements were adjusted a bit.
 
Heroic work plunger man. Please allow me to introduce you to this tiny ad:
The Perfect Homestead by Bret James
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