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My family does steamed frozen veg a lot. It does not have the taste that unfrozen has. The veggies also taste steamed.
Mmm, packaged junk is so good though. Hard to resist.
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My family does steamed frozen veg a lot. It does not have the taste that unfrozen has. The veggies also taste steamed.
Mmm, packaged junk is so good though. Hard to resist.
It's the same where I live. V disappointing fresh food. The greengrocers are not much better, but at least there are 2 to choose from. The farmers' market is pretty good, but it's only once a week and such a long drive.I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the food I buy in the supermarkets, particularly when it comes to packaged fruit and veg. I don't want, or need, or can use up before it goes off, a family pack of something. I don't want the packaging and find it irritating that I can't properly check the contents. There used to be greengrocers. You know, shops that only sold fruit and veg.
Hard to find good peaches around here too.much to my surprise they were about the bast peaches I've eaten in the UK.
Of course, its not the right season! And peaches don’t grow in greenhouses.Hard to find good peaches around here too.
There's one I use in Swansea that has an amazing range of fruits and veggies that I don't recognize and have to look up to find out what they are and what they're good for. Obviously, they're not local but exotic, so they're being flown in to satisfy the tastes of people who come from those parts of the world, now live here, and miss fresh home seasonal foods. And unless I dig a lot deeper, I don't know how they're produced where they come from; I just know they're not part of our industrialized food system.My nearest International store, there are a few within a mile radius, sells fruit and veg
I once met someone at the farmers market who wanted to buy bananas. Trying to be helpful I pointed out she might have to go to a supermarket because bananas don't grow in our climate (and therefore can't be purchased at the farmers market). She was very surprised at making that connection between climate on the one hand and the availability of fruit and veg on the other.There's one I use in Swansea that has an amazing range of fruits and veggies that I don't recognize and have to look up to find out what they are and what they're good for. Obviously, they're not local but exotic, so they're being flown in to satisfy the tastes of people who come from those parts of the world, now live here, and miss fresh home seasonal foods. And unless I dig a lot deeper, I don't know how they're produced where they come from; I just know they're not part of our industrialized food system.
But I wonder if, despite being flown in, their carbon footprint is actually bigger than that of home grown industrial fruit or veg, and I suspect it isn't by the time you factor in all the seed manipulation, fertilization, spraying, storage, packaging and transport that goes into supposedly 'local' foodstuffs. A worrying large number of people don't even know which foods could, never mind are, actually grow here, and which couldn't and aren't.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7116398/