How do Jews in rural areas keep kosher? I want to convert in the near future, and I live within a reasonable enough driving distance of a small city to do that (about an hour each way), but I don't even live in an actual town; my closest neighbors are cornfields, the only town nearby is tiny and Christian, and the only grocery stores are Walmart and Aldi. If there's a Jewish presence in the rural area I live, then it's small, isolated, or very quiet and things like kosher grocery stores or butchers are nonexistent.
Do people who commute long distances to get to their synagogues also make their kosher meat purchases at the same time? Do you focus more on cutting out treyf foods from your diet than on only eating kosher certified meats? I know "just move to a more Jewish area" is something a lot of people suggest, but that isn't an option for me at this point in my life.
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