The fun of eating a diet of mainly locally grown foods is quite and adventure. There are up's and down's. The down's are the ones that challenge you to turn them into an up.
The up's are;
- As food has not had to travel very far, or be stored for very long it required very little packaging. In fact when buying fruit and veg from the farm or farm shop there us pretty much no packaging. This saves a massive amount of space in the bin - be it landfill or recycling. Often the thin paper bags are used and they can go straight in the compost.
-As food is in season it tastes good and is very reasonable priced. This generally means you can stick to the principles of local, organic, and good for the grower and yet still afford to eat.
The down's are;
-The variety is limited at any one time. It is not a case of saying I want to make this particular dish so therefore I will need this that and the other. It is far more a case of seeing what is available and then having to create something from that. To turn this into an up you have to be prepared to play 'Ready Steady Cook' on most days. Sometimes it gets repetitive, and goodness it would have been prior to the internet. But now you can type in the ingredients and find a wealth of possibilities using what you had previously thought was a strange combination of foods.
-You work with what you have and not necessarily what you want.
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