In her column this week, Sue muses over the big veggie debate. She considers the pros and cons of shopping at the local greengrocer and even confesses about finding her happy place in 'staring at fruit and veg', particularly the covered-in soil type!
In these straightened times of rising costs and no Strictly on the telly, you have to find your happy place where you can and mine is staring at fruit and veg.
I know. But a girl’s got to have a hobby. I don’t mean the super shiny apples stacked in green trays in the supermarket or those plastic-wrapped bags of green beans – although they’ll do at a pinch.READ MOREAll lovingly arranged like a work of art and available to be carried away in brown paper bags. Where I live we don’t have a greengrocer’s but we do have a Farmer’s Market every month and it’s all there, the produce of the land and seasonal too.
The bloke who runs it - big, bearded with a beanie hat - would look at me as if I had gone mad if I asked for strawberries in December or cherries in January. Winter is for turnips and swedes ; spring is for fresh green, high summer and autumn for juicy soft fruit. Some people enjoy knitting or running or collecting stamps. Me? I like to appreciate fruit and veg, pick it up, marvel at Mother Nature’s ingenuity and imagine what I’ll make with it all.And it’s become more so. While I may grit my teeth and fork out for leeks still covered in soil I appreciate that not everyone has the cash to buy from Tesco, let alone a high street shop or a market.
Just recently The Grocer magazine reported that consumption of veggies in the UK has fallen by more than seven per cent thanks to the
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