Well, this is what I think:
I want to help keep the countryside safe and retain traditional farming methods by supporting small producers and avoiding supermarkets and brands sold in supermarkets.
To do this I will need to pay more for my produce so to counteract that I will make as much food as I can from raw materials.
Where this is not practical I will buy the product so, for example, I will buy creamed coconut and coconut milk, evaporated milk, tinned tomatoes and breakfast cereals and, if I can’t persuade Whizz to give it up, Coca Cola, but I will make bread, drinks, cakes, biscuits and all cooked meals.
I will buy my meat from a local butcher who knows the farms that raised his meats and I will buy my cold cuts, pates and dips raw and cook them myself but I won’t make sausages!
As for vegetables, I have decided to have them delivered by a local organic distributor, Abel & Cole www.abel-cole.co.uk . They offer a better range of vegetables than my local whole food shops and the arrangement will save on petrol. (more…)