no processed food?

[size=large]Would life be very boring if processed food did not exist? Certainly a lot less variety...[/size]

 

Good point Flower,

Yes it would.

Parmesan, queso vejo, vino,rhubarb crumble, yoghurt, pickled beetroot, smoked mackerell, need I go on.

 

What do you class as processed food, Miraflores.
I tend to cook everything from scratch from fresh ingredients - but maybe looking at Ziggy's list I do eat processed food.
What are we including in the list ?????

 

As mentioned above about what is classed as processed, I think the boundary lies where a natural food has been altered for a longer shelf life... So, for example, tinned sweetcorn is a processed food.

Not all processed foods are necessarily bad for you, and I think that they certainly enrich our lives. Without any processed foods, there isnt much variety as you said miraflores

On a personal level, I think I could live life quite happily on a simple fresh food diet.

Watching all the school kids at lunchtime around here... I doubt they would manage it for more than a morning though.

 

So Frozen food is "processed". It's definitely been altered.:WINK1: It's usually frozen within 4hrs of being picked. Unless you're lucky enough to have an allotment, you can't get much fresher than that. The "fresh food" you get from S'markets has been kicking around for days. So, yep, we do have a lot more variety and choice.

 

Frozen food good, like you say, frozen quickly, retains vitamins & minerals.

2 week old "fresh" food from supermarkets, irradiated ?

 

We've been making everything from scratch for about 10 years and now find 'ready meals' adversely affect our digestion.

 

Shiney, how do you think the "fresh foods" out of S'markets are grown? If we want to talk about organically grown stuff, that wouldn't be relevant to this thread.:WINK1: As I intimated before, most of us, unfortunately, don't have allotments where we can control the growing environment so we have to use the best nutritionally veg. we can get. If you've got a BIG garden or an allotment. I envy you, mate.

 

I eat what Mrs Chopper puts in front of me. I don't ask questions, just eat.

I went shopping with Mrs Chopper recently. She said I could go with her as long as she kept me on a chain and that I promised not to eat any children or bite Volvos in the car park.

Have to say it was a bit of an eye opener. The price of some food was just ridiculous. It appeared to me that most of the stuff that Mrs Chopper was buying was stuff that we could either grow ourselves or find an alternative, but they were also the most expensive. Very clever marketing ploy. Advertise stuff that you don't buy every day at "Reduced" prices, but charge through the nose for the stuff you buy all the time.

Canned stuff always tastes funny to me. Ready meals remind me of private hospital food, a cut above NHS pigswill. I don't like fancy food. Just good wholesome English food. I now have the land to grow a lot myself. Any extras I can pick and freeze immediately, such as beans and peas. So two goodreasons forgrowing your owninstead of processed food. It tastes better and should be cheaper.

Chopper.

 

Hi Shiney. No offence intended, mate.:WINK1:

Well, my MBH used to tell me I was getting older and should slow down. :WINK1: That was before the young, muscular, guys started working next door. Now I can't understand why she wants me to work overtime.

 

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