Happy Easter 2019

Since January 2019 I have been looking at different ways of cooking and reducing my carbon foot print.  One of my pet hates in Single use plastics, yet everything seam to be coted in the stuff.

So I have been using my Healthy Start Vouchers to by fresh fruit and veg and not frozen.  Sadly you can not use Healthy Start Vouchers to buy tined fruit or veegeables.

So buy buying fresh I have been aiming for UK produces only to begin with and then European.  I have been looking at preserving fresh fruit and vegetables and trying different ways to give them to my children.

So far I have used the following ways, blending, drying, juicing, blanching, storing in glass jars, fridge and freezer.

I have found so of these only take a few minuets and other hours and even days.  When time is important to many of use it to more convenieant to just "shop and go" instead of home grow, and to prepare foods that are in season so that you have food for when the season change and the bad weather kicks in.

With covenant foods and shops on every corner people do not really have to think about what could happen if the corner shops where to close and food suppliers becomes rationed.

Yet I think that it is important to learn a few ways of storing and preparing food just incase the invertible happened and also so that the future generation now when food comes form the ways that is produced.

So I will continue to try and learn new cooking skills and use local produce when ever I can.