Food experience

Since we’ve been taking the time to grow our own, I can now understand the real cost of food production, and I know that when I go into the supermarket to get the things we can’t yet grow that a lot of the food is underpriced. How can real food be grown at those prices, shipped half way across the world, packaged, and refrigerated, for in some cases a couple of pounds. It’s not that I want food to cost anymore than it does, like most people we prefer to pay less than more. But after growing my own I can’t see how they can charge what they do and make any level of profit, someone somewhere is not doing well out of it, and my understanding is that it isn’t the supermarkets!

That food we have previously bought pales into insignificance beside that which we grow ourselves, and that is the point of loss for me in particular. I know now that the taste of food straight from the garden far surpasses anything I have ever bought, incredibly so, and I would not go back anymore. The supermarket food is tasteless in comparison, worthless to the taste buds, if you can’t taste it how can your senses actually enjoy the food, and how can your taste buds trigger those reactions that are needed to tell the stomach food is coming? Is it any wonder that we have obesity if we can’t really taste the food that we are eating, and it is a pale imitation of itself both in taste and nutrition, no wonder our bodies keep requesting more, we haven’t given it the nutrition it really needs.

Our needs in regards to food are changing, we are eating less, mostly due to the juices that we make each day, but our bodies are requesting less food, we have both commented on it. We are also very conscious of the amount of food we need, never picking or making more than we need, we don’t want to pick too much and have it thrown away anymore, as we both know the hard work that has gone into growing or making it. Waste in our flat is becoming far less, and that is a good thing.

One of the foods that we now make ourselves continually is bread, and the bread we make lasts longer, and tastes lovely, neither of us can ever wait for the loaf to come out of the oven, and we always end up eating a slice warm, you don’t get that level of experience with the supermarket food. And it has been the same with the vegetables we have grown, R keeps telling me off for eating them too soon, lettuces before they have truly grown, I can’t help myself I keep eating the leaves as they grow. But they taste so good, like no lettuce I have ever tasted previously, so why wouldn’t I want to experience real food on my palate which is as fresh as it comes. I will run the gauntlet and keep taking them, blaming it to slugs probably!

With the rising cost of food, which is tasteless anyway, it makes sense if you can to grow your own and take the time to do it, and experience the difference. We are both realising that the experience is what now matters, as it makes eating the food that much more enjoyable. Just knowing what has happened to it from being planted, picked, to being put on my plate makes such a difference to how we feel about it, our whole food experience has become one which we really do look forward to and enjoy.

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