...if we had a sudden food import ban and could only rely on home grown produce?
I guess most people would say Tea but I was just sitting here sipping a soothing mug of hot water with lemon slices and honey for a heavy cold and realised I would badly miss lemons for all kinds of reasons. I don,t think I'm ever without a couple of them in my fridge veg tray. My husband thinks I'm crazy because i,m the only person he knows who eats the lemon slice after having a gin and tonic! And how would we ever get our marmalade to set?
Makes you realise how difficult catering must have been during the last war.
What imported food would you really miss..
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Peppercorns, all eastern spices and citrus fruits.
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I go to a history society and one of the speakers was food historian Ivan Day, he was very good. I've asked the committee if they could ask him back to talk about food before 1492 - I think we'd be missing an awful lot.
Back on topic, I agree with tea (and coffee), spices and citrus but there are also bananas and pineapples.
Back on topic, I agree with tea (and coffee), spices and citrus but there are also bananas and pineapples.
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Definitely citrus fruits. I have grown limes and lemons but manage to kill the plants after two or three years. I have a grapefruit that has never produced a flower and a coffee plant that looks nice but hasn't done anything either. I had a banana Musa "Cavendish" that is the best one for producing fruit in a conservatory but hadn't the room to keep it in a large enough container to keep it happy and it was filling the conservatory at 5ft tall and spread. Then there are the mangoes and avocados and chocolate. Blimey we would be feeling deprived wouldn't we!
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Poppy seed.... 
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Pretty much all of them 
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It's got to be tea first for me closely followed by rice. We could, at a pinch, make our own pasta I suppose. Didn't the Countyfile farmer grow some Duram wheat last year?
Jam could be set with plum stones in a muslin bag or chopped up unripe apples, not as easy as lemon though.
Has anyone tried living for a while not using any imported foods?
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Jam could be set with plum stones in a muslin bag or chopped up unripe apples, not as easy as lemon though.
Has anyone tried living for a while not using any imported foods?
MW