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Quality of food
Well, it's a new year, and things are looking up!
I've finally managed to get a job with no travelling, so I will able to cook at home every night. Plus the job sounds fantastic, my employers have a gym in the basement.. lots of lifestyle pluses!
Although I would dearly love to turn my city back garden into a little haven of organic veggie growing, the soil is about 90 per cent clay, and I have typical Scots weather.. I think that project is on hold until I can afford all new topsoil and a glasshouse!
My question for today concerns food quality. I am lucky to have some super organic shops not too far away, and can arrange home deliveries as well for most of my non-perishable. But when it comes to fruit and veg, there are very few items I can buy which have been grown locally. (At this time of year, it's carrots and more carrots! I will go orange soon at this rate, although I can now make more than 12 varieties of carrot soup.)
So, rather than buy the non-organic goods (most of which are still grown in mainland Europe - Italy, France) I've been getting organic goods imported from the USA. Where possible I'm sticking to things that *could* be grown in the UK climate, but some of them are a bit out of season.
For example, I wouldn't usually eat apples at this time of year, but from the range of temperate climate fruits, that and pears is about all I can get - both from the US. (I still need to feed my sweet tooth a little to keep me off candy!)
Similarly, I love all kinds of root vegetables. I can get unorganic local turnips, or imported organic swedes. So I'm going for import and organic. I guess sometimes you have to go with the practical over the ideal.
I still feel ridiculously healthy!
Just wondered if anyone else had views or opinions on this topic.
Wishing you all the best for a happy and healthy 2003.
Fiona
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