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.

Hurray for pears, and for my local supermarket that stocks two (two!) varieties, both from England. Gawd bless our plentiful land.

I wonder if you can tell that I am getting a bit bored with the lack of variety in the selection of affordable fruit.

I spent the morning on a training course for work, and when the mid-morning break beverages arrived, I sighed with relief when I saw that there were no fancy pastries (likely to be shipped frozen from France) but just a big thermos of coffee, some hot water and teabags.

And then a helpful participant popped out to get us all Jaffa Cakes and Chocolate Digestives. I had to have a couple, it would have been rude not to, and even more impolite to check where they were made, or if they contained as I thought with imported oranges and cocoa - and then say no.

Lunch was my usual home-made roll (of which I shall have to bake more on Saturday, as they have proved to be quite popular in the household this week) with roast chicken. Not something I've never had before, but I think it was the first time in a very long time that I was eating sliced chicken that had not been put together from several carcasses. This unheard-of luxury comes at a price, though.

I made an effort to half-heartedly cook a boring evening meal even if I was very tired (did this week feel unnaturally long to you too?), if you can call that the act of slapping a couple of steaks (UK beef) in a pan and grating a few carrots. On a more positive note, that was the last of the carrots I'd bought at the beginning of the week, and I'm glad to see the back of them.

I miss my salads. I cannot wait for Monday night, when I'll allow myself some leafy lettuce, crunchy cucumber and tender tomatoes, which I am now learning almost always come from sunny Spain - the lucky buggers.

But finding out for the first time that sandwich chicken can taste nicer than the packaging it comes in made me understand why some people spend more than I normally do on their lunches.

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