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woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 08 8:07 pm Post subject:
Sounds like fun, can I join in too? I'll think about this weeks meal tomorrow.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 08 8:23 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Ditto things like wine and jams - the sugar won't be local.

Can easily be local here, what with the vast fields of East Anglian sugar beet.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 08 8:39 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Jamanda wrote:

Ditto things like wine and jams - the sugar won't be local.

Can easily be local here, what with the vast fields of East Anglian sugar beet.

True. but not here, with our little fields full of cows.

Anyway - we had a go and I started a new thread
here.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 08 8:46 pm Post subject:
I discovered that breakfast here was accidentally local, so have posted that (but only by coincidence, as I usually have coffe and toast and jam, which wouldn't count!) Silver spoon sugar is made in Peterborough from UK grown sugar beet - the packet says they heat greenhouses with the waste heat for tomaotes, too. That's 76 miles from here.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 08 6:40 am Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

ggnngnghghggh

It's the spirit of it isn't it. And it raises these interesting questions.

so where does one stand on things like locally made cakes and other products. If I buy a pork pie for the kids lunch made by the local butcher is that against the rules?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 08 8:00 am Post subject:

Mrs Fiddlesticks wrote:

so where does one stand on things like locally made cakes and other products. If I buy a pork pie for the kids lunch made by the local butcher is that against the rules?

Depends if the pork came from holland or not.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 08 8:28 am Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

So I can use my beloved Calon Wen milk and butter after all

Isn't Calon Wen from Carmarthen?

But, shopping in Welshpool on Saturday, I did find butter from Whitchurch (cheese stall on the market) and milk from Wrexham (Tomlinson's Dairy - Derwas farm shop on the way home).

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 08 8:32 am Post subject:

woodsprite wrote:

Sounds like fun, can I join in too?
I'll think about this weeks meal tomorrow.

Definitely - just jump in.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 08 6:24 pm Post subject:
Picking up some layers pellets today made me think about this challenge. If people are trying to source things for themselves like cereal locally, e.g. flour, then any meat and dairy animals should also be fed on local feeds. Not much luck sourcing local starchy things but I'll have a go at the challenge and try and track something suitable down.

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
Posts: 8443
Location: Llyn Peninsular North Wales

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 08 6:36 pm Post subject:

mochyn wrote:

Wel, wedi fflabergastio.

I've drawn a 50m radius on a map.

It reaches from Liverpool to Brecon and from well west of Aberystwyth to Cannock! !

I think you might have made a mistake.

Justme

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 7:39 pm Post subject:
Can we add wine to the allowed list? N, Ireland isn't exactly a haven of vinery excellence. Although there are a few very good micro breweries.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 7:41 pm Post subject:
Not if you keep giving me shellfish envy... 'Tis on your own conscience.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 7:43 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Not if you keep giving me shellfish envy...

'Tis on your own conscience.

Are you coveting Jonnyboy's whelks?

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 7:47 pm Post subject:
Most definitely.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Jun 21, 08 7:48 pm Post subject:

Cathryn wrote:

Most definitely.

They had some lovely looking crabs in the fishmongers today. Would you like me to get some when you come?

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