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"Kay" wrote in message
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You can revive shrivelled carrots by putting them in water. That is,
if
they've shrivelled. Supermarket ones nowadays seem to go black and
slimy
instead.

I saw some french beans curling up and turning black at the ends
yesterday
on a shelf in tesco. I checked the label, and they had been grown in
Zimbabwe. By this morning they were probably in the bin. So no waste
there
then.

I'm trying to eat only those vegetables that are in season. There's no
guarantee that they haven't been flown half way around the world, but
there's at least a better chance of it. Just wish I liked the cabbage
family a little more than I do ;-)

I make a point of checking a few labels now when I'm following SWMBO round
a
supermarket, the thing that really made me angry last year was to see
runner
and french beans which had been flown in from Africa on the same day that
we
were picking them off the allotment. I can understand it when stuff is out
of season here, but that is ridiculous.

So you don't want Africans to earn a living?

Kiwi,Apricots,tangerines etc etc are never in season in the UK