i'm with you! i'd love a thread as a reference point for those things. i do refer to the ethical shopping list but sometimes it doesn't answer all my questions.
it's a new thing for me - isn't it weird how having a child makes you more concerned about what's in food, when we should be just as concerned about consuming those things ourselves!
muppity - preserving actually does sound like fun. i can definitely see myself making batches of tomatoes or something. that might have to be a project for me!
If it makes you feel better, the food miles in canned foods is higher than you think. Raw material is mined in WA or South America. It's then shipped to Asia to be pressed into sheets, back to Australia to be made into cans, and then on to to wherever whatever is being produced is canned.
So the food miles on a can of Italian tomatoes can actually be less that the coutn for an Aussie product. But, yeah, I agree, tomatoes are pretty easy, although possums can be an issue in Melbs.
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