Jimmy's Food Factory..

[chris]

Anyone watch this yesterday?

BBC iPlayer - Jimmy's Food Factory: Second Helpings

Quite eye opening seeing how supermarket ready food is produced. Processed cheese anyone? Cornflakes? Yum.

[OverWyreGrower]

It was really interesting actually.... not that I ate a lot of the stuff he was making, but processed cheese = vomit; and the square ham

If watching didn't put you off eating those, I don't know what would....

[Brengirl]

I find it very viewable better than most that the box has to offer. But then, I am a scientist at heart.

[rustylady]

I don't eat processed cheese anyway, and if I'm eating ham I prefer to buy it off the bone. OK it's more expensive but at least it's not full of c***. Having said that, Jimmy's Food Factory is an interesting if rather lightweight programme.

[coreopsis]

I just watched that-it's not so drastic as one of the programmes I watched a couple of years ago-the guy was investigating what's in the bangers with just 10% of meat-connective tissues,flour,fat,colouring,all the flavour enhancements and the other things.Watching him making the sausages was absolutely disgusting but the final result was brilliant-lovely looking sausages,people eating them claimed they tasted really nice.
I remember chickien Kiev's from this programme-there was everything in it but not chicken breast meat.Most of the meat is "mechanically recovered"-the bones with scraps of meat and ligaments go to the drum(something like big washing machine) where all the scraps are mechanically separated from the bones and processed further.
I believe in "you get what you pay for" rule,so I'm not interested in 4 quarter pounders for a quid-ther's hardly any meat in it.
Yes,I do eat some ham but not a lot and not a square ham.Mainly beacause:look above(what's in it) and I prefer cheese and onion or egg mayo sandwich.
Try buying some pork shoulder from the butcher(yes,if you ask you'll get it in one nice piece),marinate it with whatever herbs you've got(including garlic),put aside in the fridge overnight and roast in the oven on the next day.Beautiful.
The guy in the programmed forgot to say that all the cream from milk is extracted before it goes into bottles-it's not just homogenization(?).If you ever tried milk straight from the cow-it's completely different to shop bought one(texture).
I'm not trying to demonize food producers,but everybody should have some common sense as what to buy and eat to not to make you oversensitive one way or another(either "I don't care" or "I'll better go grazing as everything is harmful").
To me this programme just showed "some" food processing(not a bad one)but didn't manage to change my eating habits at all.
Now I'm off to make a sandwich with curd cheese and pinch some onions from the garden.

[chris]

Just watched the first one, and now I understand about the thread that our spuds are grown in sand (ejypt). Rediculous.. think i'll be ordering soem xmas tatties off tattieman to grow for xmas this year. quite literally in awe - I thought food miles were like.. maybe from scotland to wales for example. not 11,000 miles from start to finish!

[zazen999]

Just watched the first one, and now I understand about the thread that our spuds are grown in sand (ejypt). Rediculous.. think i'll be ordering soem xmas tatties off tattieman to grow for xmas this year. quite literally in awe - I thought food miles were like.. maybe from scotland to wales for example. not 11,000 miles from start to finish!

We get a 25kg bag from the local farm shop, grown in Lincs.

[jackie j]

I have been watching and the potato one amazed me. I dont eat processed food anyway so wont make any changes to my shopping habbits.

[chris]

whoa, my spelling is terrible

Okay, the majority (or a large part) of supermarket spuds should I say

We don't eat processed food in any way, shape or form (well, unless you class proper cheese as processed )... but the spud things was shocking for me really.

[Patchninja]

I thought you'd had a little tipple, Chris!

[Hilary B]

The advantage of buying greengrocery from the supermarket is there will ALWAYS be label telling you where it was grown!
I normally try to buy as 'local' as it will grow (UK for basics, Med countries for what grows well there, tropics only for tropical fruit, which we don't buy often anyway), but if something is 'ridiculously cheap for quick sale' I will buy it anyway (if it appeals).
I do find it annoying that the local farm shops are charging nearly twice the price of Waitrose (not the cheapest of supermarkets!) for approximately the same product, with no food-miles to add to the cost....

[Alison]

Just cos the supermarket veg says it's UK grown doesn't necessarily mean low air miles, they can still be shipped all over the place. Also, farm shops don't alway sell only stuff they've grown so that isn't necessarily local. I've bought pretty much no veg since I got the lottie in full swing this time last year, but what I do buy tends to come from a good farm shop near by which is very cheap but not all are the same - no idea re Waitrose, think I've only ever been in one once or twice and try to avoid going into supermarkets more than about once every 3 months if I can help it as I just find them so irritating