Yes, I am that sad stigmatised consumer – I shop at supermarkets. My local shop is Budgen’s, thankfully taken over by the Coop so I feel reasonably ethical none the less. The range is limited and has changed recently to reflect the new class structure in the area. There is now a section of Polish [...]
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When the children were young and my budget was tight, I started to think of the cost of meals rather than the cost of individual foods or rather to think of the value of the food cost, the role of the food in our diets. In the supermarket I would calculate how many meals a [...]
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I first embraced processed foods in the 1990s when I decided to combine bringing up children with a career. Back in the 1980s, however, we even crushed our nuts by hand! Well, not me personally but I knew people who used stone rollers instead of electric appliances. On the other hand, one of my friends [...]
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