Do you ever buy vegetables now?

[Robert_Brenchley]

My lot are untrainable; they keep turniing their noses up at perfectly good fruit and veg. It's either 'I don't like it.' or 'how can I eat that?' looking at a perfectly good apple which just doesn't look as nice as Tesco's selected ones.

[Robert_Brenchley]

[aquilegia]

Self sufficiency is the long term plan really.

At the moment we get a veg box delivered every other week, have been all winter. that usually lasts us the whole fortnight. (It's just the two of us)

Last summer/autumn I managed to have something homegrown in almost every meal - although admittedly sometimes it was only garlic and/or herbs. We had one or two meals a week with all homegrown veg.

Throughout the winter, the only things I've harvested are chard and some herbs. We used up the last of the spuds a few weeks back (I will not buy anymore, though, we will just have to have pasta, rice, etc). And we also had sweetcorn, spinach and some other things in the freezer.

We've been self sufficient on lettuce for a month or so now. Must remember to do some for over wintering this year.

I'm hoping to reduce the veg box to once a month through the summer and get much more out of the garden and into the freezer for the winter months. (I don't have an allotment!)

As for getting used to seasonal things - I tend to find that I go off the more exotic veg (eg - toms, aubs, courg, peppers, etc) in the winter and since eating homegrown strawbs, I refuse to eat anything else (they all laugh at me for being so fussy - but out-of-season strawbs are utterly tasteless!)

[OliveOil]

My lot are untrainable; they keep turniing their noses up at perfectly good fruit and veg. It's either 'I don't like it.' or 'how can I eat that?' looking at a perfectly good apple which just doesn't look as nice as Tesco's selected ones.

My daughter wont even eat the eggs her chicken lays - so i wonder what she will think of our homegrown veg/fruit LOL