Color Your Palate, Week 6

You're almost there! Only one more week and you will have completed the Color Your Palate program! But don't let that be the end of your efforts to incorporate a wide variety of fruits and vegetables into your daily diet. Make this a lifestyle change - part of your automatic daily behavior.

As we've learned throughout the Color Your Palate program, it is always best to eat local produce. We've been made aware of an additional challange that would be fun and benefiticial for anyone who chooses to participate!

The Eat Local Challenge

Wasatch Community Gardens is partnering with local community members and other organizations to bring awareness to our local food system. The Eat Local Challenge is a fun and exciting way to get you understanding where your food comes from. The Challenge is simple, eat as local as you can.

The standard Challenge is described as eating food that comes from within a 250 mile radius for one month, but if this isn't realistic for you try to come up with a challenge that will work for you. Choose a couple of food groups to get locally and stay true to them, eat as locally as possible for a week, be creative - but be sure it is challenging and educational for you and your family.

To help you and your family get ready for the Challenge that starts on September 10th, Wasatch Community Gardens will be co-hosting a number of events to help educate you on how to be successful at this year's Challenge. Among them are the following:

Eat Local Challenge Kick-off Day: Wasatch Community Gardens

Tomato Sandwich Party & Fall Plant Sale

Saturday, September 10th, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Grateful Tomato Garden, 800 S 600 E, SLC

Enjoy an afternoon at the Grateful Tomato Garden with friends and neighbors and sample our amazing heirloom tomato harvest. We will be serving unique varieties of heirloom tomatoes grown in our Youth Gardens, with pesto made from our homegrown basil, and fresh locally made bread. You’ll be hard pressed to find a better tomato sandwich party in the city! We will also have live music and fun kids’ activities, and we will be hosting our first ever Fall Plant Sale. We will also have representatives at the garden from the Eat Local Challenge, talking with folks about the challenge and how to eat more local food. So, bring the family and join us for a celebration of the harvest and our community!

Pasta Making Party and Sassy Sauce Swap with Slow Food Utah
Wednesday, September 14th, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Viking Cooking School, 2233 S 300 E, SLC

Freshly made pasta is an experience in texture and taste. Now, you can also include it on your local foods list! Come learn how to make your own pasta including spaghetti, linguini, and lasagna. You can make egg-based pasta or try your hand at vegan noodles. All ingredients will be provided and will hail from locations as close as possible. Chef Kyle from Nu Nooz Artisan Pasta will join us and offer tips as we try out our own pasta making skills.


What’s pasta without the sauce? Bring one quart of your favorite sauce made up of local ingredients to swap with another participant. Bring the recipe along so that others can recreate it in their own kitchens. Registration required. Register by September 9th. $10

One Week Celebration at the Downtown Farmers Market and Slow Food’s Eat Locally for $5 Challenge
Saturday, September 17th, 10:30 a.m. – noon
Downtown Farmers Market, Historic Pioneer Park, 300 S 300 W, SLC

Whether you have been challenging yourself for the past week to eat locally or you are wishing to learn more about local eating, join us for an informative and local brunch. Learn more about the market, the food stamp program, and more insider information while enjoying delicious, local fare. Share your techniques with others about how you keep eating locally affordable, and then share your stories through Slow Food Utah on Facebook. Registration required. Register by Sept. 15th. $5

One Month Celebration at the Head to Tail BBQ

Wednesday, October 19th, 6:00 p.m.

Utah State Fairgrounds

Details still to come
Tickets $20 (for food)

The challenge starts 9-10-11!

For more info, check out
http://www.localfoodbee.com/the-sl-eat-local-challenge/
http://wasatchgardens.org/node/526
 
***(The above challenge is not connected to the Healthy Lifestyles Program and will not earn you healthy lifestyle points, only personal healthy lifestyle benefits!)




Color Your Palate's Week 6 Challenge:

Now that we have learned so many great health benefits and ways to enjoy all the fruits and vegetables during summertime, challenge yourself to eat as many colors every day. Include at least 3 different colors to your plate ever day this week. Aim for more and eat a colorful assortment on your plate for every meal!

Post Title : Color Your Palate, Week 6

Color Your Palate, Week 6,

vegetables,

Color Your Palate, Week 6