A REAL food challenge

Wow - we feel so inadequate in the shadow of Novella Carpenter.

Fresh off yet another 7vs7 food challenge , and with our eyes set on another food challenge , we were reminded just how hardcore Novella Carpenter is.

You might remember Carpenter , the self-proclaimed renegade and urban squatter who visited Spokane in October as as part of National Co-op Month.  Well, this freelance journalist , blogger , urban farmer, gardener, horticulturist, student of “playing at self-sufficiency”, and published author is engaged in her own challenge - a 100-yard diet.

She attempted it once before in 2007 according to her blog, Ghost Town Farm, and now she’s making another go of it .  She’s chronicling the progress of her diet, which started on February 25th and ends March 11th.  Check it out.

Here’s the rules, taken from her blog:

1. Food from the garden only. No Chinese take-out. This includes: rabbit, vegetables, Bebe’s ever-loving milk, cheese, and sorbet (maybe this won’t work to melt pounds). I am going over to Hank’s for dinner, so that’s my one exception.

2. Wild-foraged food okay. Includes ’shrooms, branches, nettles, and sea salt.

3. Pantry food okay that I’ve grown or picked myself: applesauce, tomatoes, pickles, olives.