Comments on: My Food-onomics http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/ From the cellar, wild, garden, local farm Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: NicoleB http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-39686 NicoleB Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:38:55 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-39686 $400. You are a superhero. AND, you’ve inspired me. I’m all fired up to chop up a pig….I’m doing this. Thank you Kevin.

]]> By: TaraZ http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-23900 TaraZ Fri, 11 May 2012 02:36:59 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-23900 If you want fresh greens in the summer, just grow them in your house. I had local (grown in my kitchen) tomatoes in February. All you need is some nice south-facing windows and a bit of space.

]]> By: Hilda http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-22144 Hilda Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:49 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-22144 The whole time argument always bugs me. I have 3 preschool aged kids, I run a very time consuming business/hobby from home, my husband works full time, and yet I make all our own breads, yogurt, jams, meals, butter, grow our own veg, sew some of kids’ clothes, and have PLENTY of free time to play with my kids, spend time reading, and camping many weekends of the summer. Honestly, my biggest thing with time is how do you NOT have the time? Prioritize people. (or get rid of your cable) Also I’m extremely envious of that $400/month. We’re nowhere near that yet but granted this is the first year we’re doing serious gardening.

]]> By: Chantelle http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-22075 Chantelle Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:59:31 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-22075 Oooohhh I hear you! I am both busy and lazy and I still find both the time and energy to process at least a portion of my own food. I’m an avid “preserver” in every way…pickling, jamming, canning, freezing and drying, yes this all takes time but I can still find a few hours to do a batch of preserves even once a week until the harvest glut is over. That’s a few hours from raw and unwashed to jarred, sterilized and kitchen cleaned without assistance. If my lazy butt can do it and still run my own business, anyone can! Oh, and here we’re already well into April and am still enjoying canned plums (free from a friend with too many to use), frozen grapes (free from my garden), dried apple rings (small cost from local orchard), organic rye (traded a local grower for some grape jam which was made from my garden)……can’t wait to see how far my food and time budget can stretch this season. I really enjoy your blog, thanks for sharing.

]]> By: judy http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21924 judy Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:25:47 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21924 i love you. This was so well said. I find that eating well in the sense you describe is not so much a matter of time, rather it is planning. always thinking ahead and being prepared.

somehow with food supply becoming a more and more commercial endeavor, society seems to have lost touch with how much time we really SHOULD allot to sourcing and preparing the food we need to nourish our bodies.

i had to laugh when Kraft came out with “easy mac” like preparing the original 7 minute KD was a huge time sucking process. they shaved 4 minutes off! sigh, what to do with all that new found free time?

]]> By: A Canadian Foodie http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21896 A Canadian Foodie Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:17:51 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21896 Great timing for follow up reading after Eat Alberta – and exactly what I asked you to do a class on at Eat Alberta – too! So, thank you for the information – it is inspirational and detailed! And you do sacrifice – I didn’t really read about that – but, people these days don’t seem to understand that. What a huge amount of discipline this kind of healthy and inexpensive eating requires… no more “I fell like”… and going to get it. This is just as good for the spirit as for the body! Returning back to this kind of food discipline in our own home the past couple of year with much more extensive preserving, freezing and bulk animal purchasing has dramatically changed the way we eat. We always ate great quality – but it is now so much cheaper. What made me write this was the day you came over to do a class and had the first greens of the new season and you were salivating as you hadn’t had any fresh greens for months. You ate other food that provided the same nutrients that you had – as fresh greens were not in season. And we have done a lot of that as well, the last two years with so many things (not greens as I still get them from the Morinville Greenhouses. etc) but with tomatoes and so much more that just doesn’t taste good unless I grow it myself or it is in season. Huge change in lifestyle, planning and thinking – which is the greatest irony, really.
Great piece, Kevin.
V

]]> By: Kevin http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21820 Kevin Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:59:20 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21820 Kristin – you can pick it up at their facility in Camrose. It’s an hour drive, but I have friends that pool orders, go pick up a half-dozen + bags at a time, share amongst friends.

]]> By: Fiona in Edmonton http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21759 Fiona in Edmonton Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:03:58 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21759 @Maryan Oh I sometimes wish we had a car as I’d love to have a garden plot at your location.

]]> By: Kristen http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21729 Kristen Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:42:43 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21729 I’m curious where you bought 20 kg of Sunnyboy flour? I was hoping to do the same but am not sure how to do so. Thanks!

]]> By: Marcus http://www.kevinkossowan.com/my-food-onomics/#comment-21693 Marcus Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:50:33 +0000 http://www.kevinkossowan.com/?p=6386#comment-21693 This is well put Kevin. I think above all, you must enjoy this kind of thing for it to be a long term, life altering journey. Because the truth is, it is a lot of “work.” For me, I enjoy hunting, raising my own food, foraging mushrooms, butchering, wine making, and most of the other things that goes along with this local food thing. It started off as an interest, which turned into a hobby that is starting to become a lifestyle that I treasure. If I saw it as more work and a time sucker, I probably wouldn’t stay with it. Sure, the TV time has taken a hit, but I can live with that.

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