plain old salad or international dish

Good on you for highlighting this problem~ we should all be looking at where we are buying our food from and buy local wherever we can, we need to help our local growers before they go out of business and we have no choice but to import our food!~better labelling would help! ~this EU nonsense can mean anything!~plus you can buy chicken from the far east and repackage in the UK and lo and behold it can turn out to be from the UK!~ the only thing you can do is be as careful as possible~ as for butter and cheese try a farmers market etc!

will be doing in future arlene i agree with you about buying locally its got to be better and fresher and as you rightly say ~eu~ can be anywhere

i do try to buy local but sometimes ive not been able to, we have a farmers market on a saturday morning but i work and cant get there, always buy free range eggs to never caged birds

its hard if your working and dont have time,i get eggs & milk from local farm the milk is delicious and eggs really yellow

looks yummy

Actually that looks really tasty. I understand what your'e saying ,but you can't beat local grown.I go to our local farm shop on saturdays and stock up for the week on their meat veg and eggs. you can taste the difference.

thanks michaella it was
yes tulsa you can tell when somethings been chopped and shaped and reformed!!!! to look like something it isnt, nothing like home grown

And if, like me, you're about a hundred miles from any farm shop, I recommend Burford Brown eggs - very nice, British eggs, you know exactly where they're from, dark yellow yolks, but uneven sizes. Waitrose seems to be the only place which stocks them

im lucky farm about 10 mins away but at east you know where there from bamboo.

~ this company do cheese by post but there ae lots of them about~www.postacheese.com/ - ~ really liked the apricot!

Good blog joanella...what a variety of produce you ate!
Milk, & it's by-products, is one of our biggest embarrassments I think...cheddar cheese from Latvia...imported milk from Roumania for cheese-making over here...& yet our dairy farms are virtually all gone.

There was a thing on the TV about a man logging lorries passing one another on our motorways carrying the same product from one end of the country to the other when they could just distribute them where they started from!!

Madness.

One fellow garden off another site,she is in Canada her carrots were from China, so I will alert be careful what you buy from China as a gentleman fellow gardener said when he takes his wife for lunch and eats carrots her mouth brakes out in ulcers, a lot of their food has dangerous stuff added. When she eat carrots grown from their allotment she is ok. 85% of Europe refuse to accept floride in the water also refuse to have any products which contain floride made in the products. I will not buy German nor Dutch bacon or meet either, as they add sayline which contains other animal fats injected it to their meats especially frozen meat. I always buy meat from uk, as some products say uk but are only packed in uk, I watched a documentary on this and you have to read even with pies the small print on the back not the frount. Even free range eggs or poltry free range just means they are not in a cage and some times the space which they have in free range can be just as bad, if you ever seen what they feed these chickens you would not buy them as you are eating what they have eaten. The way they feed the chickens and also other animals the specialist s have stated that our children will suffer mental disease as they are not getting the important oil from them to feed the brain.

Sounds like an advert from M&S but I do know what your getting at, basically buy British but that is hard to do these days unless you really really look long and hard and that is the sad part.

The best way with meat is to find a farmer who slaughters his own meat and may have a butchershop . I buy my tobacco from Tesco, also a local shop where does it come from Germany, my son zaped it with the bar code it came up Germany.

thank you for all your comments,it goes to show how concerned we all are ,it seems so simple to resolve and yet so hard to put into practice.