Food Miles

Jerseygirl · Food Miles

I am just having a salad for my lunch: Pick and come again lettuce leaves from my patio,and yellow cherry tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, spring onions all from the hedge veg opposite. The only thing that travelled more than 50 metres is the ham!!

Nannyp

I have no idea how far some of mine has travelled but do know that the Smoked Trout was left for us by visitors

Cucumber from my garden. Pitta breads don't know, lettuce don't know, tomatoes from the garden, onions from the garden.

Jerseygirl

We are doing our bit for the planet!!

dingsy

Nannyp

You're not bad, I don't check where mine comes from. I will check more now it has been highlighted though.

caprice62

what does not come from our garden comes from our neighbours !!!

I dont know if its the same where you lot are but when people have an excess they just stick a board out the front

and then our local farm shop grows all his own stuff but for the unusual if I fancy it I am afraid I will buy it, life would not be the same with cajun roasted sweet pots

MissMuppet

I hate to think what my neighbours would stick outside their front doors... their grubby children probably!!

I must look at moving!

Nannyp

I understand France is a nice place to live

SephieG

I don't have a garden, but I do grow what I can in borders and pots.

I'm reading Leo Hickman's book "A Life Stripped Bare" at the mo, and it's got me looking at the food labels in more detail.

It is often quite difficult to buy local or even British. I can't always get to the pannier market and we do have a lot of organic box-delivery firms around, but they are very expensive. I am avoiding stuff from miles away, particularly opressive regimes, and try to stick with produce that's in season. We do go to a pick-your-own place but not often in the winter - it's too cold tramping through muddy fields!

The Co-op are probably one of the more ethical supermarkets, so I may shop there more often.

caprice62

aldis are really cheap at the mo I noticed yesterday and they try to use local produce don't they

SephieG

Yes they do, but as I work full time, by the time I get there after a day's work, the shelves are bare - but that's fine, as the people who have stripped the shelves during working hours are more likely to be pensioners and the unemployed who are more in need than I.

What did annoy me recently though were the young (foreign) men who pushed though everybody and completely cleared the "Reduced" shelf, almost running over the older folk in their wake.