Thinking of trying to go veggie

It helps when you grow your own. I couldn't face being veggie and having to eat dodo supermarket veg. The tomatoes......lordy, they're awful. :x

Definately, and what about home-grown sweet corn, I wondered last year why everyone grew so much, now I know!  I hope after this year never to have to buy it again  You can get nice organic stuff if you don't mind paying a fortune for it (although in reality mass produced food is too cheap, we've just good used to the low prices and don't realise), at farmers markets etc., but I don't rate the supermarket organics much, and I find the box deliveries that are supposed to feed a family last about 2 days in our house

Supermarket organics suffer the fate of all supermarket veg, they're simply not fresh enough. Add to that the fact that some of it's not picked at biological ripeness and there's little wonder it tastes so bland.

I remember the first year I brought my produce home (oh, the pride!), we found that quite often the bairns would eat all their veg and leave the meat. Speaks volumes, that does.

Quote from: "Rob the rake"

It helps when you grow your own. I couldn't face being veggie and having to eat dodo supermarket veg. The tomatoes......lordy, they're awful. :x

Definitely, and what about home-grown sweet corn.....    

If I could grow nothing else but sweetcorn and tomatoes I'd still be happy.

Food fit for kings, I'll say.

     ...she was so shocked when she saw us dig spuds, tried to eat one raw

It's shocking how little kids know about where their food comes from. :shock:

Great to get them involved though. It gives them a much better, more grounded worldview, I think.

I find the supermarket organic stuff is naff too.
The problem is that organic stuff is grown for taste, not for shelf life, so its never going to survive in a supermarket environment  

Organic, hah, I had a box scheme donkey's years back, frankly, there was nothing to it. It got cancelled fast.

Freshness is important. Spinach cooked straightaway soon after picking is lovely, let it be in my fridge for any little while, small person would frown at it for certain as can be.

Fresh meat is good for you, Fact, it is essential for growing kids, has amino acids that no veg can supply,
If people didnt eat meat then farmers would not breed cattle, lambs, chickens, pigs, and nobody would pay to see them in a zoo so they would become extinct.
I love eating pheasant, partridge, rabbit, muntjac, duck, and much more but would never buy c**p from a supermarket, so dont give up meat, just C**p meat

        Mal

Sorry, but that's just not true.  I know plenty of kids that have been brought up vegetarian and are a picture of health, obviously their mum (the ones I know anyway) feed them enough of everything they need to be really healthy, I'm sure if they didn't their doctors/midwives etc would have advised them not to be vegetarian (by the way most of the nonsense about meat being good for you and dairy for that matter is propaganda by the meat/milk marketing board or whatever they're called now).  In Australia they even had a campaign that said if you didn't eat lamb you were un-Australian, idiots.

By your reckoning re the animals becoming extinct, that's like saying if the Chinese didn't eat dogs they'd become extinct!  I'm sure a battery farmed animal would rather have no life than the miserable (thankfully short) life it currently has. Not everyone has access to the sort of meats you enjoy, not that I look in the meat department of Txsxo that often but I haven't seen  pheasant, partridge, rabbit or muntjac in the aisles, not round here anyway, and not everyone in cities can afford it (or go hunting for that matter).

Once my plot is in full swing and there are veg a plenty I find our family rarely eats meat and no-one misses it.  there are so many fantastic veg dishes to be made to use up all our lovely produce. Me and my family are meat eaters usually but we all love curries and chillies, fresh pizzas, pakora, lovely salads with great sweetcorn cobs.  I even grew the red kidney beans for the chilli so just making the most of the veg and eating less meat when you grow your own is well possible.  I begrudge forking out for meat when we have so many fresh veggies.