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.

I won't mention breakfast or mid-morning and afternoon snacks, because they tend to be the same all the time (see choice of yogurts and apples from Monday).

Let's get straight to lunch. A very well deserved lunch, after a run with a colleague along the canal that still had some of the snow that fell early this morning along its banks. The run was very pleasant and the home-baked granary bun I had afterwards was very good too. I had filled it with some ham that was made from "assured pork from farms in the UK, Wiltshire cured and matured on the bone for succulence, hand decorated with wholegrain mustard", which I suppose sounds more appealing than my usual supermarket's own brand "reconstituted ham made in Denmark from pork of EU and Brazil provenance" (or something like this). Yes, "hand decorated with wholegrain mustard" - I guess they had to justify the 2 pound 68 price tag.

Dinner was mouth-watering scrumptous: sauteed thinly sliced UK potatoes, pan-fried UK turkey strips, grated UK carrots. I was going to cook the turkey with mushrooms, but I had to change plans when I looked up the "WM1 IRL" next to "Produce of" on the packaging and found out it was not a UK postcode.

Yesterday I found it hard not to pop down to the canteen for a can of Coke Zero (haven't entirely figured out where it's made yet).

But man, that Wiltshire ham was worth every penny.

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