The FFA Contract

I just completed the Family Food Adventure Contract, something of my promoting which you'll be hearing about shortly, and I'm very excited. I'm also in a formal (ish) writing mood. It's quite fun, actually. Anyway, I'd like to give you a preview of the Contract (which hasn't yet been approved by the other two members of the Family), to show off my work of the last hour or so and let you share in the excitement of a draft completed in one sitting! (Don't worry, I really will make it a preview, a short one.)

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The Adventure

A year-long experience in which the Greenberg family (Dione, Saul, and Mollie) will prepare, eat, and learn about all different kinds of foods.

How It Works

Each month focuses on a different theme – this may pertain to the type of food itself, the manner in which it is prepared, the ethnic or historical origin, the time of year the food is eaten or produced, etc. Each member of the family shall have a delegated Role. Each member of the family shall take part in the documentation of this Adventure by participating in the writing of a blog.

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The Continuous Themes

The Continuous Themes are things that the Family will attempt to experiment with to the best of their ability throughout the duration of the experience, are: raw, local, homegrown, fermented, organic, vegan, gluten-free, low-fat, and seasonal food, smoothies, and healthy desserts.

More later on the origin of the FFA. (I'm quite proud of it, as it was pretty much my own invention.) For now, I've had a busy day (in which I've biked/run/walked for an hour and a half, met the Chinese exchange student that will be in our class next year, went to school - which was an odd experience - to pass the test letting us into Mandarin III alongside my best friend that both of us thought we were only asking our teacher questions about today, not actually taking, saw the progress that's been made on the greenhouse at our school so far, showed the Chinese girl the drinking fountain and discovered that she didn't know how to use it, discussed plans for a Hunger Games themed birthday party with Cora, gotten the best deals at Kroger with my dad, and eaten some really really good food made by my wonderful mom) and I'm ready to read and go to dreamland.