Event asks Columbia residents to eat local

Friday, September 21, 2007 | 3:00 p.m. CDT; updated 1:43 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008

Can you go a week without Coca-Cola? Trade your Lay’s potato chips for Backers? Pass over the imported grapes in the grocery store? If so, consider signing up for the Columbia Localvore Challenge. This week, Columbians hungry for a change of pace will challenge themselves to buy, prepare and eat only Missouri-grown foods.

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