Eat Local Maui Challenge 2023
The Maui Nui Food Alliance is having their —Happy Eat Local Maui Challenge week! We hope you are joining in on the #EatLocalMaui challenge to eat 100% locally sourced meals for seven days.
Information Provided from Event Coordinators below:
The Eat Local Maui Challenge is Project Locavore’s10-year running challenge to eat 100% locally sourced meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for seven days. The Eat Local Maui Challenge calls attention to the great local foods being produced across our islands, from the local produce, meat, fish, dairy, salt, seasonings, and fats needed to make a week’s worth of meals.
As Project Locavore shares on their website, “The State of Hawaiʻi currently imports 85-90% of its food. This heavy reliance on imported foods makes Hawaiʻi extremely vulnerable to many external factors, as any disruption to the state’s import chain would leave Hawaiʻi with a severely limited food supply. By joining the EAT LOCAL MAUI Challenge, we collectively achieve a better sense of what it truly means to be eating local and hopefully pick up some healthy habits along the way. Anytime we can substitute a local product for an imported one we are injecting money back into our local economy as well as helping us all move towards a more self-sufficient and food-secure future.”
Find the resource guides here on how to find all you will need to source 100% of your ingredients locally. We encourage you to join us for a day, or even a meal, if you are not able to try the challenge of eating 100% locally for the full week of November 12-18, 2023. For community, inspiration and ideas on where to source your ingredients locally, visit the Eat Local Maui Facebook page, and share what youʻre eating with #EatLocalMaui (make sure to tag @projectlocavore)!
The Eat Local Maui Challenge created Keiki Bingo Cards in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and in English, to involve your families in the fun of the Eat Local Challenge, highlighting the many ways our keiki can help support our local food systems! Find the ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi and English Bingo cards below.
About Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action
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The Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action (HAPA) is deeply committed to championing social, economic, and environmental justice throughout Hawaiʻi. Recognizing the interconnected nature of food systems, we underscore that the challenges plaguing these systems are not isolated from broader social, economic, and environmental concerns. We believe in an integrated approach that addresses these interdependencies to create a just, equitable, and sustainable future for Hawaiʻi.
Contact: info@hapahi.org | (808) 212-9616
