Our Year of Dining Locally

Our family has decided to make a year long pact to avoid all national chain restaurants...and welcome to our blog! We promise to do our very very best to eat only at locally owned restaurants in an effort to support our local businesses, and post our experiences and favorites here.

There's many reasons why I think this is a good idea, but I also think it will undoubtedly be a challenge. Living where we do this experiment definitely puts us outside the norm. I would guess that 80% of restaurants in Johnson County are chain restaurants.

At the start of our project I would say we have benefits and challenges to look forward to.

PROS of Dining Locally:
~Supporting our local business owners
~Trying new things at new restaurants
~Not relying on the sameness found in chains
~Hopefully experience better food!
~Not eating fast food
~Having to 'work' for our takeout (no drive thrus, have to call in orders)

CONS of Dining Locally:
~Having to 'work' for our takeout..haha..when weather is bad or I'm 9 months pregnant and carting around a toddler
~Planning ahead for travelling and 'road food'
~Pregnancy cravings for certain chain foods
~Finding variety in our chain happy town

Wish us luck! Lastly I would like to say please feel free to suggest restaurants to us around the Indianapolis area!!