eating seasonal veg!

meritaten

meanmarie wrote: »

I feel that I should support local growers as much as possible so buy Irish whenever possible and British next....pleased to discover that both Aldi and Lidl sell local produce more than the other supermarkets and at a better price.

Some day will get round to growing and preserving enough to avoid buying from anyone....I hope

Marie

Yes, its one of the reason I love shopping at Aldi - they do seem to use British growers a lot - far more than the big four do! That red tractor is everywhere in Aldi's!

freyasmum

There is nothing to beat the flavour of homegrown produce - a tomato, freshly picked and a slice of butter (preferably plain!) bread, very slightly sprinled with salt. It's manna from heaven.

I'm in my twenties and, as far as I can remember, we've had the choice of eating what we want, when we want. And, as has been mentioned, it's good from the point of view that we can extend our repetoire - it definitely can get boring eating the same stuff day in, day out. But my own personal view is that you cannot beat the flavour of fresh food, when it's supposed to be eaten.

Sadly I'm not in the slightest bit green-fingered... my carrots and spring onions were toothpick sized In my defence though, it was a stinker of a year :A

meritaten

as you are in your twenties freya you wont remember what it was like before modern supermarkets.
I can remember my mum taking me to a small grocers to order the weeks grocerys and it arriving in ONE cardboard box (about the size you see apples sold in). Of course she then used the corner shop for veg and cheese and butter, cooked ham, bacon etc. as with no fridge it was bought as you needed it - in minute quantities compared to what you expect to buy today!
The way women shopped in the fifties was very different to today. it was more a matter of shopping every day and working the dinner around what was available! if the butchers had some nice sausages then odds were that most men would have sausage and mash for dinner! one day a week our butchers would do faggots - and it was my job to queue for them! half hour or an hour before they were due out of the oven! and the queue stretched round the corner and halfway down the street! if you werent there within half hour of those faggots coming out - you didnt get any!
you couldnt actually go into a butchers and spend ages choosing - he may have lamb OR pork OR beef - liver and kidneys were usually available but not always - mostly you took what he had!
any one else remember it like this in the fifties?

THIRZAH

My mother's weekly grocery order fitted into a cardboard box too. If she'd ordered soap powder the packet would be wrapped in newspaper to stop the rest of the order tasting of detergent!

We lived in a large village and most of the shop keepers delivered orders . The baker called three times a week and both butchers had delivery vans.

I seem to remember that the butcher only had sausages on certain days of the week-probably other things too.I went to stay with my parents in the early 1980s . I wanted some bananas for my daughter so went to the village shop only to be told that they didn't have bananas as it was a monday.My mother reaction when I told her was "You didn't ask for bananas on a monday"! She obviously thought that it was quite normal not to be able to buy them then.

craigywv

My mil buys day to day she wouldnt dream of going to the big sm she lives on a busy road and has lived there all her lifeshe uses the local very small coop which has been around forever , the butchers, grocers, chemists etc...She does get her clothes in town though. I have sat down and worked out with her how mush cheaper 1 shop a week to mr t would be or any sm . She says she can go out in morning (shes retired now) and can come in at 3 ish and will have spoken to 20 people while she could go mr t and speak to nobody thats her answer. So she doing it out of companionship also. She wont go near a computer so online shopping is a no no. I think shes right in her own way. Me personally i cant find what i want if i buy locally or its too dear compared to sm value range.

craigywv

Also my local greengrocer has completly changed his whole selling ways . Before i could have gotten 2 bananas, a quarter pound of mushrooms, 3 tomatos etc and it came wrapped in a paper bag and was weighed in front of you, now EVERYTHING is in a punnet and prepriced its soooooooo dear sml punnet mushrooms over a quid ...mr t about 89p for a big punnet, totally put me off ever going back to him.