bitful

I am trying to see how hard it is to eat only food that was produced in the UK for a week. You may Read all my Eat Brit posts on one page.
Yesterday sourcing breakfast was easier (I just quickly went for the same stuff as day 1 ).

Lunch was leftover beef from the previous day's dinner, with some of the bread I baked on Monday night.

I had apples and yogurts and fairtrade coffee and tea throughout the day as on Monday.

My usual snack of supermarket own brand cheap sliced ham to eat on the way home from work and keep hunger pangs at bay had to be replaced by some leading brand roast chicken that I fortunately found at half price.

Dinner was lovely: hot smoked Scottish salmon slices (70% off normal price), roasted parsnips, boiled Brussels sprouts (produced not in Belgium but in the UK) and horseradish sauce.

Yesterday I found it boring to stick to just one type of apple. Boring, but not too hard. Oh, how I long to be able to alternate the pleasure of biting into a tangy Granny Smith and a juicy Pink Lady.

But it was surprisingly refreshing to upgrade from my usual tinned tuna to the lovely salmon.

Not doing too bad after all. However, my efforts could prove to be absolutely useless, as some people claim that it is more carbon efficient to import tomatoes from sunny Spain than grow them in heated greenhouses in Britain. I'd argue that yes, that would be cheaper because tomatoes are not in season in England now.

Although I am not entirely sure there is ever a season in this country for home-grown tomatoes.

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