As prices soar, give food some thought

MrG · Post by **MrG** » 14 Sep 2010, 12:49

My dad was saying the other day that during the war it used to be a crime to throw away food. You got fined 10 pounds which would of been a lot of money in those days. Even for throwing away potato peelings (you should at least give them to your chickens) Not sure if that's true he said there was some thing on the telly.

Maybe we should just return to that?

I don't peel my potatoes anyway, all the goodness is in the skins but if I did I don't think I'd let the chickens have them I'd make some kind of dodgy prison hooch out of them

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Sep 2010, 00:26

If we were in a similar situation viz wheat harvest, I would want HMG to ban exports.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 15 Sep 2010, 02:27

RenewableCandy wrote:If we were in a similar situation viz wheat harvest, I would want HMG to ban exports.

I don't think we can produce enough bread making wheat in this country so we export our excess feed wheat and malting barley to help pay for the higher quality wheat that we import.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 15 Sep 2010, 13:56

I don't think we can produce enough bread making wheat in this country so we export our excess feed wheat and malting barley to help pay for the higher quality wheat that we import.

Yeah UK wheat is too low in gluten i think to get modern style loaf of bread higher gluten flour is imported from Canada/Australia or where ever they grow it...

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Sep 2010, 15:08

I'm being tested for Gluten allergy(?) so, for all I know, by next week as far as I'm concerned the presence or absence of wheat in the UK might be academic

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 15 Sep 2010, 15:12

RenewableCandy wrote:I'm being tested for Gluten allergy(?) so, for all I know, by next week as far as I'm concerned the presence or absence of wheat in the UK might be academic

You'll have to start growing rice to make rice cakes instead.

Or perhaps oats might be a better idea.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 15 Sep 2010, 15:24

There does seems too have being an epidemic or fad of gluten allergies recently amongst the chattering classes?

Hope you don't really have it as sounds a hassle to live with

http://layscience.net/node/1092

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Sep 2010, 16:06

Yeah I thought of all those upper-middle hypochondriacs, but this is a proper non-commercial test on the NHS and referred by my GP, all official like. Mind you it can't be that bad (is it possible to be "mildly" celeriac(sp)?) because I'm healthy most of the time.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 15 Sep 2010, 16:12

RenewableCandy wrote:(is it possible to be "mildly" celeriac(sp)?)

Not nessa-celery.

Coeliac, RC!

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 15 Sep 2010, 16:16

Gah! No need to sprout about it!

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 15 Sep 2010, 16:24

Sorry. I'm a gluten for pun-ishment.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 15 Sep 2010, 18:16

emordnilap wrote:Sorry. I'm a gluten for pun-ishment.

We don't need any more more of your puny attempts at pun-ishment

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JonB · Post by **JonB** » 15 Sep 2010, 21:29

RenewableCandy wrote:Yeah I thought of all those upper-middle hypochondriacs, but this is a proper non-commercial test on the NHS and referred by my GP, all official like. Mind you it can't be that bad (is it possible to be "mildly" celeriac(sp)?) because I'm healthy most of the time.

My father had it. No. The only solution is an exclusion diet,
And the non-gluten breads etc are awful.

Are they biopsy-ing you? That's the definitive test. Though a blood test can rule it out.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 15 Sep 2010, 21:49

lurker wrote:
I don't think we can produce enough bread making wheat in this country so we export our excess feed wheat and malting barley to help pay for the higher quality wheat that we import.
Yeah UK wheat is too low in gluten i think to get modern style loaf of bread higher gluten flour is imported from Canada/Australia or where ever they grow it...

Huh. Who wants the 'modern style loaf'? Britain is perfectly able to produce excellent wheat for real bread-making. I have a loaf in front of me made from wheat grown in Lincolnshire and stone ground with windpower.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 16 Sep 2010, 11:51

biffvernon wrote:
lurker wrote:
I don't think we can produce enough bread making wheat in this country so we export our excess feed wheat and malting barley to help pay for the higher quality wheat that we import.
Yeah UK wheat is too low in gluten i think to get modern style loaf of bread higher gluten flour is imported from Canada/Australia or where ever they grow it...
Huh. Who wants the 'modern style loaf'? Britain is perfectly able to produce excellent wheat for real bread-making. I have a loaf in front of me made from wheat grown in Lincolnshire and stone ground with windpower.

+1

I make perfectly good (meaning a few levels above supermarket) bread using flour grown an hour's drive from here.