Have Your Eating Habits Changed?

[Scarlet]

Each year I seem to become addicted to one particular thing. A couple of tears back it was Munchem Bier radish, then golden beetroot, then fennel so Goose knows what it will be this year?

Tomatoes every year for me. I can eat them every day warm from the green house

[Noosner]

Does anyone else find it really hard to buy veg from the shops once your homegrown supply has run out? I have to put it off for weeks, especially if there's been a glut.

On the cooking front, I always key a couple of ingredients into the search bit of sites like BBC Good Food. They will cleverly come up with recipes that use strange combos of veg.

Our eating habits have definitely changed - but my cooking habits have changed more because of having to find ways to use things up.

After a massive turnip glut one year, I can't eat them at all now. And I went off cabbages for 2 years. Can face them again now, though!

[Scarlet]

My secret Noosner is that I haven't touched a courgette for two years....but the kids & the OH have eaten plenty!!!

[WPG]

Since taking on the allotment, I think the biggest change to our eating habits has been less reliance on pasta and rice, substituted by potatoes. About a quarter of our plot is used for spuds, which feeds us for around 8-9 months of the year (probably eating some form of potato in about 80% of evening meals). I take great delight in walking past the potato section in the supermarket...but like Noosner says, it grieves me when our supplies run out and we have to buy them.

Then there's also the seasonal gluts which change our habits - at the moment we've got about 10 full sprout plants still to cope with....so sprouts are a side-dish with just about every evening meal. Getting a bit sick of them, but determined to use the lot.

[Lumpy]

It seems to be a pretty common thing for growers to put up with gluts of everything and find different ways of eating/cooking them just so they don't go to waste.
I absolutely agree that buying veggies is horrendous as their colours don't seem right, their taste is not right etc etc.
I have become very, very fussy about bought stuff.

[muddled]

I too struggle to buy veg.
Even more so eggs in winter. Especially since I saw an expose of so called 'happy eggs'....I won't detail what was on the video on the open forum but suffice to say, I won't EVER BUY THOSE eggs again.

A friend once described a shop bought strawberry as having "the texture and personality of a raw spud" and it's always stuck in my mind as true; trouble is, the more I grow the more I apply that description to other produce as well.

[sparrow100]

Does anyone else find it really hard to buy veg from the shops once your homegrown supply has run out? I have to put it off for weeks, especially if there's been a glut.

Totally agree! I really resent buying veg that I know will be tastier if it's homegrown, if only because it's fresher. Though my ageing spuds are still very tasty!

I find it much harder to get 5 a day in winter. In summer it's no problem, but my diet is Not Good in the hungry gap months. I get ill a fair amount in winter and my energy levels are rock bottom. Living with a vegetarian you would think would help, but we don't like many of the same things.

Having said that, I am crooning over my PSB, which is about to break forth. Cannot. Wait.

[Noosner]

Having said that, I am crooning over my PSB, which is about to break forth. Cannot. Wait.

Yum! On the subject of PSB and what you buy in the shops, mine was for some strange reason ready just before Xmas, and I have never tasted anything like it. It's so peppery! I've never grown it before and it seems to bear no relation to shop bought PSB. I'm just hoping it survives the current winds... I have four plants and they are all staked up with Heath-Robinson constructions of canes and string to prevent them blowing over. But nothing can stop the wind snapping the leaves off! Poor things.

[Noosner]

My secret Noosner is that I haven't touched a courgette for two years....but the kids & the OH have eaten plenty!!!

Good thinking, Scarlet!

[lottie dolly]

We certainly eat different when home grown,especially squashes,so expensive in the shops compared to home grown,courgettes are nice saute with a flavour like herbs/seasonings ext,atop a slice of toast,in summer you just full of pride when you look at your plate and think,mmmm,all home grown