12th November 2014

It is the day after Remembrance Day, the day after the end of the Second World War.  But not the end of War and conflict.

It was the early hours of this morning when I remembered that i was going to aim to only spending about £30.00 per week on shopping (food.) Over the last few months I do not believe that I have done well in reaching that goal, with the Big C on the way I know that I am likely to overspend.

Overspend and buy things that I do not need, in result wasting food.

http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/node/2472


This really dose worry me and is some thing that I personally would like to try and prevent myself from doing in the future.

When I lived on my own, I always budget.  My cupboards were always full of boxes dated for the month so that my meals were planed out and I could feed myself until pay day.  My fridge and freezer were also stocked up (mainly with ready meals for one.) so that I could eat when I got home at 1am after being at work for over 12 hours.

But a lot of the packaging worried me too, due to it always ending up in land fulls, this is due to so many things still not being made from materials that can be recycled.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling/2010-to-2015-government-policy-waste-and-recycling

In this day and age it makes me so mad that we still waste so much and that even local authority do not seem to really be doing and thing about it.  In my home town Nuneaton, recycling always seams to be a big issue but yet nothing is really achieved.

Despite the councils best efforts it is appears to be costing more when people try to recycle than if this never bothered at all.

 http://www.nuneaton-news.co.uk/Contaminated-recycling-bins-leaves-council/story-25812963-detail/story.html








.

How Recycling Works

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

A Visit to the Local Recycling Center...

WASTE - English

Food wastage footprint

Looking though the books I need to look to a Recipe with Rice and Vegetables, this is because I only really have them on board at the moment.

Also I have not have time to source any thing from the Towpath today.  I will be using all of the books to try and cook at lest one Item per day over the course of the next 12 months.


I will also try to stick to the following when sourcing the ingredients in making any thing that is in the books that I use.

For almost two years now I have tried to only.

Buy UK (British) or EU Products.
Recyclable or less packaging as possible.
No MSG
No artificial sugar.
No Palm Oil.

I will also insure that everything is safe to eat, washed and cook correctly.  I may at times have to use a substitute or add ingredients.

Back ground.

I know that it is a Clechia and medioca but I have decided to cook.

Yes cook.  Now those that know me know that cooking is not a great art of mine.  Most of the time I only ever cook things that are precooked and come out of a tin.

I even find this exstreamly problematic due to not being able to tell the time to well and organisation myself.  But I will give it ago and see what happens.

All I can say is thank God I live on a boat.  So I have plenty of water to put out those flames.  No local neboubours to her my cursing and no microwave after burning out three in the past.

The books that I am going to use to help me with this task are listed below.

Dad's Bees The Beekeeper's Honey Recipe Book First Edition By Leonardo Canziani
(www.dadbees.co.uk)

Favorite Boating Recipes Traditional Cabin Fare.  ISBN 978-0-906198-99-5

As Presented By Gary Rhodes on BBS TV Ronald Dahl's Revolting Recipes Illustrated By Quentin Blake.  Recipes compiled by Josie Fison and Felicity Dahl ISBN 0-09-926307-6.

At present these are the only three books that I can find on the boat and I will use them to cook for my family over the next 12 months.

My aim with in the next 12 months will be to complete my own cook book and to set up my on line store selling Naturally Sourced cooking and homeopathy ingredient from the towpath.

Reference Books Used.

The books that I am going to use to help me with this task are listed below.

Dad's Bees The Beekeeper's Honey Recipe Book First Edition By Leonardo Canziani
(www.dadbees.co.uk)

Favorite Boating Recipes Traditional Cabin Fare.  ISBN 978-0-906198-99-5

As Presented By Gary Rhodes on BBS TV Ronald Dahl's Revolting Recipes Illustrated By Quentin Blake. Recipes compiled by Josie Fison and Felicity Dahl     ISBN 0-09-926307-6.


Collins Wild Guide Wild Flowers Get to know the Natural World ISBN 978-0-00-794639-6

Collins Wild Guide Trees Get to know the Natural World ISBN 978-0-00-794636-5

Collins Wild Guide Mushrooms and Toadstools Get to know the Natural World

ISBN 978-0-00-794637-2

Collins Wild Guide Insects Get to know the Natural World ISBN 978-0-00-794638-9

(NOT TO EAT)