Welcome to Nitty Gritty, a small project of Low Mileage Food. The idea for Nitty Gritty has been bouncing around in my head for awhile. Often, when I mention that I cook most of our meals at home, I hear that cooking every day is too hard or too time consuming or too boring. Also, people who are working on eating more locally and more organically often hear charges that this way of eating is elitist, that it’s too expensive or too much work or just not possible on a day to day basis.

So, I propose to put it all out there for a year - what we eat, how much it costs us, how long it takes me to cook, how I cook and how I plan and how long the dishes take. In other words, the nitty gritty of eating more locally and more organically, and cooking at home most days of the year. I may be preaching to the choir, since most of our readers at LMF already do most of these things, but maybe I’ll change at least one person’s mind about all of this. If nothing else, it will be an interesting record for Jeff and I, and maybe we’ll think a bit more about where our grocery dollars go and how we’re eating. We decided to start a sub-blog for the project because we didn’t want these details to overrun the main blog. If you’re the kind of person who enjoys reading other people’s grocery lists (and I’ll confess, I’m one) then you’ll probably enjoy this, and I hope you’ll enjoy following us in this project this year.