Day at the Movies

(Eat Local Challenge Day 19: what and why)

Spent the entire day at the movies since it was the last day of HIFF. The hardest part of this challenge is when I'm not home at mealtimes; snacks other than fruit are invariably not local, and it tends to be that only the high-end restaurants carry locally grown food here, if at all. Knowing I'd be at the theater all day, I stocked up on supplies: leftover roast chicken and breadfruit, Nalo greens and butter avocado, and a baked sweet potato. I was woefully underprepared. By the end of the second movie, I was gnawing on sweet potato skins. (Is it possible that watching movies makes one hungrier?) I fought off the urge for Raisinets and hot dogs, but that was pretty much the extent of my restraint. Someone brought plate lunches...I devoured fried chicken, furikake musubi, chow fun, beef stew. At the end of HIFF party, I gorged on kalbi and chow mein. Not a single local ingredient. In the end, it wasn't a Tex's Drive Inn malasada...i.e. tasty enough to be worth the guilt, but it was either that or starve. And that got me all riled up...a huge spread of food and nothing local on it. Why is it so hard? It shouldn't be....right?