I buy all may fruit and veg from the local market in Camden... It actually works out cheaper than the Supermarkets, and most of the stuff they sell is actually grown in this country.. None of this 'packaging' nonsense either, you pick up your fruit and veg loose and it gets put into a brown paper bag, v. bio degradable... If people did actually look instead of just being lazy, they would actually find that a local Fruit and Veg market or Greengrocer (and indeed, Butcher as well..) was a lot closer than they think.... Support you local suppliers as much as possible and stick two fingers up at the likes of Morrisons and Tesco.... But if you must go to a Supermarket, go to Waitrose, they are by far the most ethical of the big chains, and the employees actually benefit from profits and bonuses (albeit in a somewhat small way)...

I buy all may fruit and veg from the local market in Camden... It actually works out cheaper than the Supermarkets, and most of the stuff they sell is actually grown in this country.. None of this 'packaging' nonsense either, you pick up your fruit and veg loose and it gets put into a brown paper bag, v. bio degradable... If people did actually look instead of just being lazy, they would actually find that a local Fruit and Veg market or Greengrocer (and indeed, Butcher as well..) was a lot closer than they think.... Support you local suppliers as much as possible and stick two fingers up at the likes of Morrisons and Tesco.... But if you must go to a Supermarket, go to Waitrose, they are by far the most ethical of the big chains, and the employees actually benefit from profits and bonuses (albeit in a somewhat small way)...

 

Not everyone can afford to shop in Waitrose...

We've been doing this in school ^_^

 

Take an easter egg for example,

You could get an egg, wrapped in tin foil, then put in a plastic case thing, then thats put into a box.

 

But then you judge the size of the egg to the size of the box, and then the egg isn't nowhere near half the size of the box

Yeah but the packaging with eggs has to be thick and big otherwise the eggs will just break, in warehouses and so on they are thrown about all over the place so need thick packaging to withstand that

i buy loose bananas and don't put them in a bag - get strange looks but never put any veg / fruit in extra bag if not needed - oh and have earned LOTS of green tesco points as I reuse carrier bags all the time

 

I recycle and ahve energy saving bulbs

 

.... God I am angelic :o

i buy loose bananas and don't put them in a bag - get strange looks but never put any veg / fruit in extra bag if not needed - oh and have earned LOTS of green tesco points as I reuse carrier bags all the time

 

I recycle and ahve energy saving bulbs

 

.... God I am angelic :o

 

Is it not unhygenic (maybe not for bananas) for fruit/veg not to be put in a bag?

Is it not unhygenic (maybe not for bananas) for fruit/veg not to be put in a bag?

 

bananas you peel - broccolli you boil - ....... everything either gets peeled - cooked - or washed!

 

..so what do I need a bag for ???

 

and the weight of all those bags adds but - you pay for weight ;)

 

My Maw buys whatever.

 

And damn straight Lucy! Waitrose is literally like £5 per apple where I live =l.

 

I wouldn't mind buying a brownish banana because at least it's covered. But I always buy multipack-esque fruits/vegs. Period. Rahhhs I wouldn't buy no fruit/veg some nasty peoples' hands have been manhandling.

Not everyone can afford to shop in Waitrose...

 

on one of ringo stars blogs he said he does online tescos home delivary shopping!

 

 

Depends if we want to eat them straight away or next day.If not we get greenish ones.Buy the cheapest.Like big bananas though,not the small ones.Need 2 or 3 of those!

Edited January 28, 200718 yr by coolchris

But I always buy multipack-esque fruits/vegs. Period. Rahhhs I wouldn't buy no fruit/veg some nasty peoples' hands have been manhandling.

 

 

they didn't put themselves in bags sweetie ;)

 

 

but its not about bananas, its about ethics in food production. bananas was used as an illustration...

 

yeah the bananas were only used to see what people would do. are they ethical and are they bothered about all the excess waste

sorry but the best bananas in the world are the ones of the canary islands :kink:

i see the sun have jumped on the waste packaging item today

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/LIDL_Logo.gif

 

Lidl came top for using least amount of packaging. M&S did v badly