Hi Tish

I'm very interested in this. I also try to buy Australian to cut down on food miles. But my main concern is safe packaging. I am really concerned about BPA etc in tinned and jar foods. I tried to email Heinz to find out if there is BPA in their tinned baked beans (DS quite likes them), but they either didn't get the message or haven't bothered to respond.

I've pretty much cut out tinned tomatoes, and now just blend up roma tomatoes to use in sauces etc. But I am always forgetting to put beans on to soak, so I end up having to buy tins. I use a bit of jar pasta sauce too, to pad out my sauces and add flavour, so the toxic jar lid issue is a concern.

Is it just the plastic-lined tins that have the BPA? So you could tell by looking at the inside of the tin?

It would be great to have a thread listing safe and environmentally responsible foods.