Invented meals and picky hens

Yesterday we got home late after a trip to Staunton where we saw A Merchant of Venice at the Blackfriar's Playhouse--excellent theater as always. We also ate supper at the Baja Bean Co., all non-local most likely.

Breakfast yesterday: Cornmeal pancakes
100 foot: Egg
Local: Cornmeal, butter, milk, yogurt whey
Non: Syrup, corn masa, coffee, salt

Lunch: Salad, bread, yogurt, strawberries
100 foot: Chard, lettuce, borage, egg, strawberries, mint tea
Local: Bread, bacon, honey, yogurt
Non: Vinegar, olive oil

Snack: Pie and milk again. . . (one piece left now!)

This morning's breakfast was scrambled eggs and toast. Our hens are laying 2-3 eggs per day these days, so we eat eggs frequently to keep up. Pastured eggs (which ours are) have something like five times the omega-3 of factory farmed eggs, half the collesterol, more vitamin B, and so on. My project this evening was trying to convince the hens that they would like to eat the broccoli worms that are attacking our crucifers. One hen, Zia, would eat a few of the smaller ones. The other two were skeptical. I'll keep trying; I had to convince them to try japanese beetles at first. Now there are few things they like better.
100 foot: Eggs
Local: Bread, honey, strawberries in jam, bacon fat
Non: Coffee, sugar in jam

Lunch was one of our favorite curry recipes which Ben discovered and we have since modified to use whatever we have.
100 foot: Peas
Local: Onions, ghee
Non: Rice, red lentils, garlic, spices, chutney

Supper was an invention of mine: one of those inspired by wanting to use whatever's in the fridge with a minimum of time and effort. I ended up making creamed turnip greens on toast with Swiss cheese. It was pretty good, though Ben would have preferred a base other than toast.
100 foot: Turnip greens
Local: Flour, butter, milk, toast, garlic flower buds
Non: Swiss cheese, dry mustard

I'll add here a perpetual item that I should have been including at the end of each day:
Snack for Ben: Popcorn
Local: Popcorn
Non: Olive oil, salt