All posts tagged: Supermarket

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Don’t bin it, cook it!

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We’ve all done it. Left half a bunch of fresh herbs to wilt, seen mould encroaching on some fruit and let it go beyond the point of rescue. Food waste it a huge problem and in light of Tesco’s food waste figures, its time for us to take it upon ourselves to do our bit to make sure we are all zero food waste homes. Tesco revealed it generated an enormous 30,000 tonnes of food waste in the first half of 2013 alone. I’ve found having a better appreciation of where my food comes from and what its taken to produce it has meant I never want to throw anything away. Knowing just what my chickens go through to make one single egg, watching the time it took for my tomato plants to germinate, grow, flower and to finally start producing tomatoes, how could I bin something that has taken so much time and energy to make? Becoming vegan has also helped me think about food differently. Instead of getting food envy when some non-vegan snacks …

Convenience shopping

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The ease of buying everything once a week, all in one place, has become an unquestioned habit for the majority of us. (Yes we’re talking supermarkets again!) We want easy access to a huge array of food that is cheap and convenient for us. Yet I only have to look back two generations, to my Grandma, to see how much of a modern phenomenon this is. But why, I hear you ask, would you want to think about how your Grandma shopped? Haven’t we got it all now, easy access to a huge range of cheap food all year round. Well yes, this may be true, but as with many of the benefits of modern life, these come at a cost, just not one that we see in our trolleys or on our receipts. To provide us with the large variety of fruit and veg we have all year round, it’s needs transporting half way around the world from warmer climates to reach the shelves of our supermarkets. This comes with a huge carbon footprint …