Changing your diet

One of the first things that you will notice about your home grown food is the taste. Everything will taste much better. This could be psychological, as you are finally tasting the fruits of your labour, or it could be because it is fresh, probably a bit of both, who knows?

Since I have had fresh food available from my garden I have experimented with various recipes so that I can experience all the flavour and this also inadvertently led to a healthier diet. I now eat Peasant soup on a regular basis plus other homemade soups, I also eat more rice, generally with my broad beans, peas, peppers and tomatoes mixed in, and have been complimented on the taste many times by friends and family, often with tear filled eyes as the peppers can be a touch fiery at times! Salad is eaten daily in our house and as a weekly treat we have Beetroot and chocolate muffins with fresh cream and garden mint. A wonderful way to get the kids to eat beetroot but beware the sugar content, hence only once a week!

With a little know how and lots of imagination you can change the way you see food and the way you eat it too. None of my recipes are original, in fact most are based on traditional recipes that I have found on the internet and in my opinion the traditional dishes are the best as there is not much point growing fresh food then deep frying it in animal fat to get that deep fried taste we all love so much!

All through last summer my breakfast every day was tomatoes on toast, it may sound a bit mundane, especially as I ate it for three months! but actually as the tomatoes developed so did the taste and as the toast was often made from home baked bread it added to the taste, although despite baking numerous loaves I have yet to make any two the same!