capstone spring 2024

This week for my ecochallenge I chose to cook & eat 1 organic meal a day! For this challenge I chose a dish that I'm already familiar with, Japanese curry. I picked out organic carrots, potatoes and I chose tofu instead of chicken for the protein. Thanks to making a big batch, I was able to eat this curry throughout the week which helped me...

This week I focused on consuming organic and local foods, I was able to go to the farmers market with my Grandma and get fruits and veggies for this week, a lot of what I got ended up being more snacks than meals but I was still able to have a majority of what I ate throughout the week be organic and/or from the local area.

As a part of this week's eco-challenge, I headed to the Saturday farmer's market at PSU instead of doing my usual grocery shopping elsewhere. I’ve walked through this market a couple of times before but this was my first time actually buying anything there. I picked up bread, eggs, a lot of vegetables, and some meat, and even grabbed myself a...

Since this week's topic is food, I decided for this week's eco challenge is to pack lunch for work. I usually feel lazy to pack my own lunch, and I always end up buying food out. My excuse is I work once a week so it is not that bad. For this week, I made a sandwich and I also packed carrots and hummus dip. For some reason, it was more...

For this week's EcoChallenge prompt I chose to make something I typically buy. My partner and I decided to make a loaf of bread because we have talked about doing so for some time but have never set aside the time, energy, and resources to make it happen. Fortunately for me my partner is already a skilled dessert baker so this was only a mild...

For my activity this week, my goal was to get all my meals, for one day, from the PSU farmers' market. I did this in order to support local food chains and think about where I get my food. I was successfully able to eat my breakfast at the market, but I was unable to find everything I needed to make a stir-fry for dinner. I got some baby bok...

My food challenge for this week is meal planning. I have done this in the past when I worked in an office, but can utilize this for meals at home since I am home for a lot of my meals. I am just setting this up today and will grocery shop with 2 meals in mind that I can alternate for breakfast and lunch to eat for at least 4 meals in this...

For my food eco challenge I focused on packing food rather than buying it. Since I live almost two hours from campus on transit I'm usually there all day and eat at least one meal on campus per day. Normally I will buy my lunch but this week I made the switch to packing my lunch. I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would, it wasn't...

For this week's eco-challenge, I went to the PSU farmer's market to pick up some locally sourced fruits, veggies, and other goods. I got two onions, carrots, tomatoes, some serrano chilies, cilantro, kale, apples, blackberry jam, a huge loaf of sourdough bread, and vegan cheese from my favorite stand at the farmers market, they are called...

For this week's food eco challenge, I tried to keep my focus on eating more sustainable food sources. First, I made tofu for the first time this week, which I ended up loving and will probably incorporate into my weekly meals going forward. Cattle grazing and commercial animal farming is something I have been hyper aware about tin the past few...