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Help! My Healthier Lifestyle Is Giving Me A Budgetache!

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  • thriftlady_2
    thriftlady_2 Posts: 9,128 Forumite
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    This is a good one too.

    Sweet potatoes don't grow in the UK, so they will always be imported. Mediterranean veg like peppers and aubergines can be grown here in the summer but you don't see them much. At least Dutch ones haven't come too far and not on a plane.

    Obviously citrus fruits, pineapples, bananas, passion fruit don't come from here.

    I sometimes toy with the idea of a local only diet, but give up when I remember lemons, coffeee, tea, spices, chocolate and wine.
  • Kadeeae
    Kadeeae Posts: 652 Forumite
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    Been away, but back again, lol.

    Thanks Thriftlady and Ceridwen heading to those links now and hope to get a good listing to printoff.

    Thriftlady - I wouldn't want to go completely local either, but know we could if we had to. My main concern is not buying something that's been imported if I know it is in season here or would be soon and I could wait a few weeks.
  • metherer
    metherer Posts: 560 Forumite
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    I'd just add that it is possible to grow your own sweet potatoes so long as you live in the south and have a poly tunnel. I don't think its done on a commercial scale though, so as thriftlady said, if you buy them they will probably have been shipped/flown in.

    Metherer
    Not heavily in debt, but still trying to sort things out.
    Baby due July 2018.
  • competitionscafe
    competitionscafe Posts: 4,050 Forumite
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    article from todays Scotsman:

    Can we still afford to eat organic?



    Alice Wyllie offers tips on how to eat healthily and ethically while keeping an eye on the budget:

    http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Can-we-still--afford.4467015.jp




    "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the
    best of everything; they just make the best
    of everything that comes along their way."
    -- Author Unknown --
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