Eating local challenge

Making Hudut without buying any of the main ingredients

(Hudut is mashed plantain served in a gravy made from coconut milk)

Let's look back at how communities used to live, and survived! 

I encourage you to take this on as a challenge. 

Below is a real scenario in Belize (April 2020) 

We are not asking for the impossible. We simply want you to reflect

- how are you living? 
- Is your lifestyle costing you more than you expect? 
- What lifestyle have you picked up that can be replaced by closer connections with family and friends?

We hope you will be willing to change your practice if you are finding yourself spending on things you can grow yourself or exchange with your neighbor, friend and family.

I give to you, you give to me...all of us save money, all of us benefit.

Materials needed

Green plantains (and ripe - optional). 

Dried coconuts

A source of protein (usually fish)

Mortar and pestle

Seasoning and condiment (of your choice)

I used whole hot peppers, local basil, garlic, salt. I also added okra.

 

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I got blogo plantain from my eldest sister. She grows this in her yard. I also got coconuts from her. I used these for the gravy.

                                               

My other sister makes coconut oil. I got the one I used for frying the fish from her.

                                                 

My eldest brother gave me fish. He is a fisherman and networks with other fishermen.

My other brother provided more plantains. He has a farm. He also practices backyard gardening. He gave me okra. I share with my neighbors. I also package and freeze some now and again.

I too practice urban gardening. I plant culinary herbs (including basil and garlic chives), peppers, ginger and a few vegetables and small fruit trees (including golden plum). I process crops (mostly by drying and pickling) to increase their shelf life. 

No chemical preservatives are added to any of our agro-processed goods. We simply follow traditional practices that make use of heat, salt, sugar, and acid (vinegar or lime).

 

Golden plum juice

Materials used

Ginger

Golden plum

Lime

Sugar

 

My niece has a lime tree in her yard. I get lime from her.

Additional challenge

*you can make your own sea salt - simply collect clean seawater and make it boil until the water evaporates.

*you can make your own sweetener using sugar cane (these are easy to grow) - collect the liquid and add to drinks.

 *For a colorful drink, you can blend in slices of beets to sweeten it (you can grow this in raised beds and containers if you have issue with space). 

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*you can also add stevia plant to your garden (this is easy to grow and propagate). This is a natural sweetener that is zero-calorie.

 

Always seek to limit your intake of processed sugar. 

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

2 Peter 1:3

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