So tonight, after a fair binge on kebab and chips thursday evening and a macdonalds yesterday, we trued to get back on track with a salad.
Supermarket salad ingredients, salad potatoes etc etc. Gotta say, it was reasonably underwhelming, a bit meh. Most of it from Aldi, we usually shop at Asda, not top flight stuff, but better it seems than Aldi.
Fruit and veg is a bit of a lottery in stores I find and in the last year have had refunds from Sainsburys (a bag of salad leaves rotten and damp on opening) and Waitrose (bag of oranges that had a couple dried out)
This is (one of) the problems of fresh produce being sourced via these outlets very - very often it does taste a bit meh - sometimes downright horrible.
I have to eat it sometimes, I know what you mean..
So people are naturally less attracted to it, compared with the other 'tasty' and easier things on offer.
It becomes a downward spiral and the inclination is towards less 'fresh' veg more highly processed stuff.
Which is very often cheaper too.
- So those on lower incomes tend towards eating more c@rp, because it's easier cheaper, and more accessible.
With all associated problems, health etc, that come with that.
But, enable people to grow for a living, and others access really tasty fresh stuff, and the balance shifts in the other direction.
I have customers who claim - only half jokingly - that they can't move away from this area because they risk not getting decent food where they end up.
It's quite difficult making a living from growing and distributing good fresh, seasonal 'natural' food.
But it's not impossible, with the right conditions.
It's only really difficult because it has been 'allowed' to become so..
The actual growing of it, is undoubtedly a complex craft skill, which takes time and effort to learn, like fixing a bike, or building a house, or whatever, but we could do the whole thing much better if the system was adapted away from how it currently stands.