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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grow 10% of our food - eggs, fruit, vegetables
Make 25% of our food - bread, yogurt, crackers, chips, applesauce, fruit leather
Cook 85% of our meals

Shop at Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Costco and part of a CSA[/quote]

You aren't very good at math are you? [/quote]

Seems fairly obvious that some of these are ingredients in meals, doesn't it?

I'd actually be surprised that a household that produces their own eggs, fruit, and vegetables (probably not in the DMV unless you eat apples all year?) still buys 15% of meals outside the home. [/quote]

I should have clarified that's the rough breakdown over a year. And we do live in the DMV area so we tend to have less homegrown produce in the winter (still have an indoor garden for avocados, citrus and lettuces/herbs year round) and so we eat out more in the winter[/quote]
How are you growing avocados indoors??? Tell me more![/quote]

We just took store bought organic avocados, and my kids sprouted their seeds with the toothpicks in water. We transfered them into larger and larger pots.  Now they are in large, rolling pots. We roll them outside for the summer, where the fruit gets started. When it gets cooler, we finish them off inside. We have a temperature controlled orangerie / sunroom that's basically all glass.

It took like a decade before any of them bore fruit. They're not big avocados, like the size of duck eggs, but they're tasty and it's kind of weird we grew them so we like that. [/quote]

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