Seasonal Menu

A big part of following a Hundred Mile Diet and buying local means planning your menu so that you usually use in-season local ingredients, or ones that you have have preserved.

Seasonal variations in menu revolve mostly around produce because meat, grains, and dairy products have the same availability all year around.

It's very easy to do follow a seasonal diet if you get a weekly local organic grocery food box and recipes from a home delivery service -- they also publish seasonal menus and recipes as part of the service.

References

• Eating By The Seasons local recipe book http://www.ecologyaction.ca/food_action/seasons.html
• http://www.hgof.ns.ca/

[[ToDo]]:

• include more links to a Nova Scotia seasonal menu here - or add your own favourites.
• arrange "Examples" below by time of year.

Examples

If you make cider, make it in the late fall -- a few weeks after the apples are harvested.

Fresh local vegetables start in June.

Celebrate the first rhubarb strawberry pie of the year - right around the end of June.

Shift to more grains and root vegetables around Christmas.