The Trolley Challenge: Only Buying Real Food.

[MantaRay]

I buy very little in the way of processed foods also. I am really pedantic about salt content for the boys which basically rules out 3/4 of the supermarket! Also the boys react to sugar and most preservatives which rules out most of the rest!

There is no real food in the supermarket!

Well ok, fruit and veg and flour etc. Thats it....

TBH, most of the fruit and veg in supermarkets is barely real either - most of it is genetically designed to withstand rough picking and transport, and it's frozen for so long before it hits the shelves that "fresh" is an entirely inappropriate way to describe it.

I have been getting f&v from the farmers markets like punks (maybe we'll run into each other one day!!) and you can totally taste the difference. Real fresh fruit and vegies have far more taste - which means they are far more nutritious.

[Bengal]

I really struggle with the guilt of not buying at the farmers markets etc ... in fact, what is a farmers market ? Vic Market ?

[Astrid]

Been trying to do this for awhile. We have our own veggie patch going (even though it is a bit sad this time of year) and have just gotten some chooks, so that helps a lot. We are a lot like Christy, tend to buy what we cannot make or would be to hard or too expensive to make. I do buy puff pastry, have made it once and won't be doing it again!

My nanna's diet consisted of cups of tea and becks DH's lived on scotch and valium!

[Pandora]

This sounds really interesting. DH would kill me if i did it!

Sorry I havent read through the full thread, but in reference to the peanut butter that Bath's DH wanted.

The health food store I worked at at uni had a machine that made nut butters. Customer could bring in their own nuts (macadamia, peanuts, hazelnuts etc) and they would put them through the machine and make it in to nut butter - much better than that stuff at the supermarket.
Maybe there is somewhere near you that does the same thing.