Myself and my husband and daughter are taking part in a challenge based in Framlingham, Suffolk, to only eat local food during September 2011. The group promoting the challenge Greener Fram www.greenerfram.co.uk are a local Transition Town group and are looking at ways to reduce our dependence on oil. The rules of the challenge are simple. You must only eat food grown within a 30 mile radius of your home for the 30 days of September. The exceptions to this are 3 items chosen before the challenge starts, one of mine being tea, essential!

Sunday 4 September 2011

Butter, shepherds pie and birthdays

Local Butter

Well I have now been told that I can get Marybelle milk butter www.marybelle.co.uk from Stuston farm shop and also that I can get it from Diss from a wholefood shop in Norfolk House Yard. Also there are local dairys www.dominidairy.co.uk who sell unpasteurised Jersey milk products including butter through the farm shop at Wyken vineyard. Also there is a dairy at Hollesley www.rawjerseymilk.co.uk
The problem here is that no shops in Framlingham sell it - it would be good to change that and get a shop stocking it before the end of September!


and now for the rest....... Had a delicious meal of shepherds pie with broccoli from the garden/runner beans from the side of the A12 last night and tonight. I have discovered that shepherds pie (I shouldn't be taking the credit here because my husband Dominic actually cooked it!) is even more delicious than usual made the local way. Instead of tinned tomatoes whizz up real ones and courgettes to make a delicious sauce to cook your mince, onions and peas in. Yum!

Then take whats left round to your mates house for their birthday and share it with them to avoid eating all the other tempting non-local food you might otherwise eat!
Unfortunately this is not always an option, as we were all invited out for a family birthday meal in pizza express on Friday we felt that not going would be a bit over the top - and taking our own meal not an option. So on this occasion the food I ate was most definitely NOT local!





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