Supermarket recommendations?

[Agnieshka]

Is the food you buy in Brussels organic too?

The Belgians have just started getting into the whole "bio" products so there is not much available in the supermarkets but believe me a regular non-bio carrot from Tesco and a carrot from Belgian store does NOT taste the same. All the fresh produce in BeNeLux tastes "real" that's why after I moved to the UK I can really tell the difference.

 

[tangerinedream]

The organics are usualy about 30-50% more expensive than the usual veg.

And therein lies the truth of the organic question for me. Organic cows, fine all good if you want to eat meat, buy it, organic carrots - if yer that bothered, get an allotment and do it yerself and don't flounce on at others for not forking out for it.

Organic veg really pisses me off. I can understand exactly why it is 'a good thing' but it just makes me grumpy.

meh

 

[tangerinedream]

All the supermarkets seem to be competing with each other to advertise locally produced

Not in my one they ain't.

 

[cyberfairy]

Not in my one they ain't.

You have got a 'Locally Produced' section in your Asda-it had Lancashire tea in and some foul looking sweets, remember?b

 

[Agnieshka]

And therein lies the truth of the organic question for me. Organic cows, fine all good if you want to eat meat, buy it, organic carrots - if yer that bothered, get an allotment and do it yerself and don't flounce on at others for not forking out for it.

Organic veg really pisses me off. I can understand exactly why it is 'a good thing' but it just makes me grumpy.

meh

Hey, it looks like a great future topic- should we post it??
"WHY ORGANIC FOOD MAKES YOU GRUMPY"??????
see what other fol have to say

 

[tangerinedream]

You have got a 'Locally Produced' section in your Asda-it had Lancashire tea in and some foul looking sweets, remember?b

You can laugh, but it certainly isn't supporting locally caught fish - which is an issue for me personally. - That tea was made in india and put in boxes in Burnley. The sweets, which are very nice were made in Wigan.

 

[cyberfairy]

Thank you, that's very nice of you. The organics are usualy about 30-50% more expensive than the usual veg. I really think that they taste much better. I have done a nutrition course recently and got interested in all this health food stuff - some people say it's healthier to eat organic but some say it's just the same... All I am saying is that the food that contains a lot of chemicals and tastes like nothing can not really be good for you. Anyway don't buy from small Organic or health store shops cause they DO charge a fortune. Sainsbury or Waitrose is just fine. And whatever you do don't eat cheap chicken! I have heard horror stories about how you grow a 2£ chicken!!!!!!

I am veggie but even if not would never buy a battery chicken or its eggs. Thankfully a lot of people are starting to catch on to this and not buying them but sadly not enough-if ate meat, would rather eat organic meat than organic veg due to the amount of chemicals and cruelty involved. I am pretty sure that eating food with chemicals in every day must help contribute towards diseases like cancer but just cannot at the moment afford to eat organic and also think that walking back from the shops, probably swallowing just as many chemicals from the carpark.

 

[tangerinedream]

Hey, it looks like a great future topic- should we post it??
"WHY ORGANIC FOOD MAKES YOU GRUMPY"??????
see what other fol have to say

 

[cyberfairy]

Hey, it looks like a great future topic- should we post it??
"WHY ORGANIC FOOD MAKES YOU GRUMPY"??????
see what other fol have to say

Don't worry-everything makes him grumpy-he's a typical Northerer

 

[tangerinedream]

Don't worry-everything makes him grumpy-he's a typical Northerer

Least I can spell Northerner.

No, it does make me grumpy, the way there are three types of carrot, in different price ranges at the supermarket. Just fuck off with your 'choice' I want to say, and kick the veg display over to show them... er, what I honestly don't know, but it does make me cross.

But I don't.

 

[Agnieshka]

Don't worry-everything makes him grumpy-he's a typical Northerer

It seems like a very nice forum here, people know eachother, they even know their character traits! nice... so where were we? Oh, the damn organics!

 

[Agnieshka]

Least I can spell Northerner.

No, it does make me grumpy, the way there are three types of carrot, in different price ranges at the supermarket. Just fuck off with your 'choice' I want to say, and kick the veg display over to show them... er, what I honestly don't know, but it does make me cross.

But I don't.

Why not! Go for it! I would kick the living daylights out of these bastard organic carrots if I was you! And maybe if you werent so far North I would join you in your local Waitrose to do some smashing.

 

[soulman]

You can laugh, but it certainly isn't supporting locally caught fish - which is an issue for me personally. - That tea was made in india and put in boxes in Burnley. The sweets, which are very nice were made in Wigan.

You have had a word rather than walking round there looking grumpy? Lancashire has a lot of farmland too.

<edit: for some reason I thought you were in Lancashire, you used to be?>

 

[tangerinedream]

You have had a word rather than walking round there looking grumpy? Lancashire has a lot of farmland too.

<edit: for some reason I thought you were in Lancashire, you used to be?>

I am! - though spending more time away from the homeland nowadays. I suppose you are absolutely right, will do one of them comment cards things next time I am in.

 

[soulman]

I am! - though spending more time away from the homeland nowadays. I suppose you are absolutely right, will do one of them comment cards things next time I am in.

Kick up a fuss, demand to see the store manager and ask why there's no locally grown produce. If you don't ask you don't get

 

[Jambooboo]

'Organic' stuffs are shite in my opinion - just another way for shops/supermarkets/restaurants to get more money out of middle class folks (who blind tested wouldn't be able to tell the difference).

Organic washing-up liquid bollocks.

 

[soulman]

'Organic' stuffs are shite in my opinion - just another way for shops/supermarkets/restaurants to get more money out of middle lass folks (who blind tested wouldn't be able to tell the difference).

Organic washing-up liquid bollocks.

Have you ever tasted a real carrot?

 

[Jambooboo]

Have you ever tasted a real carrot?

Sure yeah.

 

[Ms T]

Thank you, that's very nice of you. The organics are usualy about 30-50% more expensive than the usual veg. I really think that they taste much better. I have done a nutrition course recently and got interested in all this health food stuff - some people say it's healthier to eat organic but some say it's just the same... All I am saying is that the food that contains a lot of chemicals and tastes like nothing can not really be good for you. Anyway don't buy from small Organic or health store shops cause they DO charge a fortune. Sainsbury or Waitrose is just fine. And whatever you do don't eat cheap chicken! I have heard horror stories about how you grow a 2£ chicken!!!!!!

Why don't you try getting an organic vegetable box delivered? Try Riverford or Abel and Cole. Also, if you live in London, there are loads of farmer's markets where you can buy great fruit, veg, cheese, organic chicken etc etc.

 

[Maggot]

'Organic' stuffs are shite in my opinion - just another way for shops/supermarkets/restaurants to get more money out of middle class folks (who blind tested wouldn't be able to tell the difference).

It's not just about taste though, it's about not destroying the environment with petsicides fertilizers and other chemicals.

 

[Roadkill]

Supermarket recommendations?

Yup - read this and then go somewhere else!

 

[hiccup]

I work with a very nice lady from Poland. She insists that all the fruit and veg in Poland is grown organically, and always has been, and that they don't believe in fertilizers and pesticides in Poland.

Which winds me right up.

I even once found a load of figures for pesticide use across Europe, but decided that that was really quite petty.

But still...grrrr.

 

[fractionMan]

ffs at this thread

This is how you do it:

My best supermarket buy at the mo is marks and sparks lasagne. It's sooo much beter than other readymades and it's 2 boxes for 3 quid at the mo. In fact, i'd say that it's almost as good as I can do on my own. So there you go you bunch of yoghurt weaving belgian food importing freaks.

 

[boozybirdie]

Have you ever tasted a real carrot?

I only eat plastic ones

 

[May Kasahara]

Sainsbury or Waitrose is just fine.

If this is true, why are you still driving to Belgium and back for all your food, otherwise you just couldn't live here? Like Ms T says, there's plenty of decent tasty food around, certainly much more easily accessible than it used to be - veg boxes, farmers' markets, local producers of all sorts. I used to live in Reading, and despite it being the utter arsehole of civilisation it still had the best farmer's market I've ever come across. The fruit and veg (and beer, and cake, and meat according to Mr K) was out of this world, and all from farms within a small radius, being sold by the people that had made/raised/harvested it.

*gets all nostalgic for the apple stall*

Even where I live now, in a pretty blah Midlands town, there is an organic butcher across the road from us whose produce, I am reliably informed by my meat-eating other half, puts everyone's else's to shame...and it's much cheaper than scrappy supermarket meat too.

Anyway. Now that I have purged my PMT for the day, let me extol the virtues of Co-op brand Czech -style lager. Tastes nice and gets you pissed, for under a quid.

 

[cyberfairy]

ffs at this thread

This is how you do it:

My best supermarket buy at the mo is marks and sparks lasagne. It's sooo much beter than other readymades and it's 2 boxes for 3 quid at the mo. In fact, i'd say that it's almost as good as I can do on my own. So there you go you bunch of yoghurt weaving belgian food importing freaks.

Don't forget smug
Countdown before someone tells you to make your own from organic veggies which is what EVERYONE else does-you would expect Tesco to a virtual desert really, wouldn't you?

 

[fractionMan]

It's not just the food you know.

I have used the same knife and fork for 14 years, I carved it from a naturally fallen sheep bone. No metalic wastefulness for me!

I make my own cardboard plates out of left over insect carcasses I collect humanely from window sills and press together with nothing but spit, sweat, bile and tears.

I then slop my microwaved pizza onto it, cover it in generic brown sauce and gobble it down with a couple of pints of wife beater.

So there

 

[cyberfairy]

It's not just the food you know.

I have used the same knife and fork for 14 years, I carved it from a naturally fallen sheep bone. No metalic wastefulness for me!

I make my own cardboard plates out of left over insect carcasses I collect humanely from window sills and press together with nothing but spit, sweat, bile and tears.

I then slop my microwaved pizza onto it, cover it in generic brown sauce and gobble it down with a couple of pints of wife beater.

So there

Poor insect carcasses People Who Care use leaves the tree has dropped naturally in stress free conditions.
Pm me your phone number again fractionman-i killed my phone (because it kills the earth)

 

[Agnieshka]

I work with a very nice lady from Poland. She insists that all the fruit and veg in Poland is grown organically, and always has been, and that they don't believe in fertilizers and pesticides in Poland.

Which winds me right up.

I even once found a load of figures for pesticide use across Europe, but decided that that was really quite petty.

But still...grrrr.

Well there you go I have wasted so much writing space here trying to convince the English people that their food is so f*** plastic , maybe I just should have said at the beginning that I'm Polish, raised in Poland and then lived most of my life in Belgium that's why I am so bloody spoilt and think that living and most of alll eatin in the UK is the bigggest punishment of my life, For what sins?! I keep asking myself?!!!!!

 

[hiccup]

Well there you go I have wasted so much writing space here trying to convince the English people that their food is so f*** plastic , maybe I just should have said at the beginning that I'm Polish, raised in Poland and then lived most of my life in Belgium that's why I am so bloody spoilt and think that living and most of alll eatin in the UK is the bigggest punishment of my life, For what sins?! I keep asking myself?!!!!!

Yeah but that's my point - agriculture in Poland is just as industrialised and fertilizer and pesticide reliant as anywhere else in Europe. Do you just use your rose tinted spectacles for food, or do you wear them all the time?