Shopping

Yesterday I spent £7:85. I bought a small cabbage, 1/2 doz eggs, a litre carton of orange juice and two litres of milk. The orange juice had come all the way from More Than One Country and cost £1:25. This means the rest averaged at £2:20.

I've long held that we pay too little for our food, and I'm not complaining about those prices although it doesn't feel nice of course. These local prices, and the 60 mile round trip to get to a supermarket, is making us value the food we buy - especially veg. This is a good thing. Food should be revered. This isn't just a throwback to school dinners when we all had to sit through Grace, tummies a-rumbling, it is as about sustainability as building an itulldoofernow compost bin.

If only more of the prices we're paying was going to the producer.