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Post by auntieannie on Aug 14, 2022 9:24:43 GMT 2
I took a quiz on the national television channel's website about eating local food:
Unsurprisingly, it said lots of bread and potatoes and vegetables, sparse meat, very little fish and rice, and less choice in terms of choice of fruit. Where I'm not sure I agree is they said much less eggs. I know quite a few people who keep chickens and sell the eggs and the train line I take every day runs by an egg farm thing for the supermarket.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 14, 2022 10:59:03 GMT 2
At present we are eating quite a lot of our own produce: potatoes, courgettes, the first beans (yesterday). the first beets (tonight), tomatoes, chillies, herbs, lettuce, aubergines, peppers, raspberries, blackberries, black currants, red currants. The eggs we buy are local. The occasional trout is caught by a neighbour. In previous years (it is not the season yet) we have been given pheasants that hace been locally shot.
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Post by Baz Faz on Aug 27, 2022 17:32:06 GMT 2
The second batch of our tomatoes is cooking down for purée. You can't eat more local that that.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 3, 2022 6:53:22 GMT 2
i buy seasonal produce & fish from my fmrs mkit so berries peaches in summer farewell to tuna when the water gets cold
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 3, 2022 8:34:37 GMT 2
A tomato plant came out of the ground of its own accord. A bit late in the season but it was cherry tomatoes so I got to eat one yesterday.
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 3, 2022 11:41:02 GMT 2
A broad bean has popped up in our allotment and is now flowering. It may be too late in the year for any beans to be edible. I'll use some of the leaves in a stirfry.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 12, 2022 2:51:48 GMT 2
bought local tomatoes peaches potatoes arugula scallions
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Post by tzarine on Jan 6, 2023 1:29:11 GMT 2
i buy local fish from long island from my fish mongers during covid i grew scallions & basil
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 6, 2023 5:37:00 GMT 2
Eating local - let’s see now. Using Menulog….. Monday - McDonald’s Tuesday - Red Rooster Wednesday - KFC Thursday - Pizza Friday - Fish’n’chips Saturday - Chinese Sunday - Hungry Jack’s
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Post by tzarine on Feb 7, 2023 20:53:03 GMT 2
last purchase @ fmrs mkit apples danish local potatoes
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 8, 2023 4:37:25 GMT 2
At Mut Mee Garden Guesthouse on the bank of the Mekong (can't get more local): tomato and onion omelette and coffee for breakfast.
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 8, 2023 6:21:00 GMT 2
some politicians are attacking dried fruits saying the local fresh ones are much healthier...
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 8, 2023 10:35:44 GMT 2
Depends where the dried fruit comes from. if you can have fresh local all year long... have at it! and it also depends on what they mean by dried fruit.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2023 1:03:35 GMT 2
true annie most of our figs are turkish cranberries massachusetts raisins cali
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 9, 2023 10:46:03 GMT 2
Most of our figs are unwanted, unfortunately our remaining fig is a tree much loved by the family that sold us the garden. Also we have a "lemon" tree that knows no purpose. It produces fruit the size and shape of an orange but its surface is lumpy and yellow when ripe and it has a distinctive and rather unpleasant taste as if it has selected all the worse aspects of an orange, a lemon, and a grapefruit in combination. Perhaps shrjeff might know of such things.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 21, 2023 11:01:25 GMT 2
Within a five minute drive from home, we have two McDonald’s, four Fish’n’chips shops, Red Rooster, Hungry Jacks, KFC, pizza shops maybe six? Could be more, not to mention the myriad of others too numerous to mention. They are all “local”. But somehow, I don’t think these are what you had in mind!
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 21, 2023 17:15:17 GMT 2
lol! yes, indeed, you're naming the equivalent to global. So, true, not what I had in mind. hahaha!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 21, 2023 22:23:48 GMT 2
annie i believe thats local global
actually i love the mcdonalds local items like wine in a plastic cup @ paris this burger w onions in rio the japanese sauces available
very local yesterday tuna, scallops, tomato soup, apples, baguette all from fmrs mkit
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 22, 2023 20:28:06 GMT 2
hmmm.. I've heard that McDo (as they call it here) has a popular "McRaclette" in Switzerland. haven't tried it, but my niece says it hits the spot from time to time.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 23, 2023 12:15:33 GMT 2
We'll be eating at our guesthouse tonight. Tomorrow night we'll be eating dinner on the train to Bangkok. I admit that is not a local train.
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