How much of your diet is from NATIVE foods?
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...to where you live?
Locally grown does NOT necessarily mean native, so keep that in mind.
Personally, very little of mine. Even most of the fish I clean and eat are imported strains of native fish.
A few pecans and dewberries for me otherwise. Even most of the local pecans are varieties imported from the SE here.
Locally grown does NOT necessarily mean native, so keep that in mind.
Personally, very little of mine. Even most of the fish I clean and eat are imported strains of native fish.
A few pecans and dewberries for me otherwise. Even most of the local pecans are varieties imported from the SE here.
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I live in Central Florida. "Native" is alligator, bluegill, maybe some bass, snakes, mosquitos, love bugs, dove, the occasional road kill armadillo...
I'd say 10%0 -
I live in a freakin desert. The only native food we got here is sand and oil...0
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We eat all the wild berries we can pick! My DH hunts so there is a little meat. I hunt for mushrooms and fiddle heads in the spring on hikes. FISH!!!!!! OMG the fish. Trout and Salmon. Crab and Shrimp. There are lots of native salad greens.
The PNW is a foragers playground.0 -
Even the blackberries here are invasive (read: from somewhere else and have no local predators/competition). I'm gonna say 0%
ETA: Plus I buy so much of my food from Trader Joe's I'm pretty sure more of my food is from Austraila and Italy than is from my local area. *embarrassed*0 -
i have a skittles tree in my front yard, so 20%.
skittles are best when freshly picked.0 -
I live in Central Florida. "Native" is alligator, bluegill, maybe some bass, snakes, mosquitos, love bugs, dove, the occasional road kill armadillo...
I'd say 10%
Me too, but I don't eat any of it. So 0%0 -
A little but not much I don't think. I'm in New England USA.
The ones I can think of off the top of my head are: Turkey, corn and cranberries.0 -
Almost none. I'm okay with that.0
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I live in Central Florida. "Native" is alligator, bluegill, maybe some bass, snakes, mosquitos, love bugs, dove, the occasional road kill armadillo...
I'd say 10%
Me too, but I don't eat any of it. So 0%
I eat some love bugs during the season when out running. It's pretty much unavoidable. When the zombie apocalypse comes, I'm pretty sure I'll be living off swamp cabbage and lost tourists.0 -
Hardly anything. I live in Hawaii and the most popular things here are usually from Asia or South America. The North American food I love so much (corn, blueberries, squash) all kind of suck. I don't really like Taro and I don't eat too much fish (or meat in general) and the native pigs aren't really to my taste.0
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I'm English so most everything comes from one of our colonies.0
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I'm from Arizona -- the middle of the Sonoran desert. I drink tequila once in a while, but that's about all I can think of that could possibly be native.0
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i have a skittles tree in my front yard, so 20%.
skittles are best when freshly picked.
Fancy that! I was given a JuicyFruit tree once....it was really an azalea bush in a pot with packs of JuicyFruit gum tied all over it.:laugh:0 -
I live in Alberta and occasionally eat bison.
I wish I had a Skittle tree, but I think our harsh winters would kill it :frown:
ETA: I can't believe I forgot saskatoons. I love those.0 -
oranges, mango, avocado, cactus today (opuntia), berries... whatever grows in Florida.0
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oranges, mango, avocado, cactus today (opuntia), berries... whatever grows in Florida.
My grandpa called green peppers 'mangoes'...so does the pizza place down the street. That's all the exotic we're going to get in Ohio :laugh:0 -
Am I the only one that doesn't know what food is "native" to Texas?? lol BBQ? Tex-Mex? Idk... :laugh:0
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We eat kangaroo sometimes, it's very lean and tasty. I also sometimes use bush tucker seasonings like mountain pepper and lemon myrtle. And then there's macadamias mmmmm.0
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Kangaroo, occasionally. That's about it, I just looked at a list to be sure and there are bugger all native Australian foods I eat unless they are on a menu.0
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I heard you were only supposed to eat food more than 100 miles from your home. For allergies or something. So I aim for that.0
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