On the lack of cold storage and convenience

On Friday, we had pizza. Not the homemade variety, the "call someplace and it's delivered 20 minutes later" variety. Almost assuredly not local (especially not the pineapples and olives)... However, when one has 4 month old twins, a 2 year old, and those twins have been going through a growth spurt and what might be the beginning of teething, and one's wife suggests pizza for supper... I believe that the course of wisdom is NOT to remind her that it isn't local, but rather to say "why, that's a marvelous idea", order a Vegetarian and a Hawaiian and enjoy it.

7th - Sausage, Potatoes, Carrots, Asparagus
8th - Pizza
9th - Pork chops, potatoes, carrots, green beans.

However, on Thursday and Saturday, we definitely at local. The Sausage and Pork Chops came from the same farm as our beef, the green beans were either from the garden or 'de nos champs' (from our fields) at the local vegetable market, as was the asperagus, with the same prices as already mentioned. The carrots and potatoes are both "product of Quebec", and a little research reveals that they are likely from around Trois Rivieres, which isn't too bad on the local scale. We can actually buy them from local farms here in the fall, but this brings me to my other point for this post - the lack of a cold cellar in most modern houses[1]. Our house was built in the 70's, and while we have a goodly amount of room for our freezers and canned goods, we don't really have anywhere that we can store a 50lb bag of potatoes or carrots, and thus we are faced with the choice of buying our potatoes from the "right down the road" local and then having 1/2 of them rot or otherwise become inedible and still not last us until we can get new potatoes and baby carrots in early summer, or go down to the local grocer, and make sure that we buy the "Product of Quebec" carrots and potatoes (instead of the "California" and Idaho varieties).