Not so Mini rant

Ok so I go into the local supermarket to do some shopping and I am pleased by the amount of organic veg that is starting to appear in there, that is until I see that:

New/Salad potatoes- Place of origin...Israel!! Not happy about that AT all!
Regular potatoes- Place of origin...Israel Grrrrrr
Broccoli- Place of origin...Spain
Cauliflower- Place of origin...Spain
Carrots- Place of origin...Italy
Spring Onions- Place of origin...Eygpt
Tomatoes- Place of origin...Spain
Cucumber-Place of origin...Spain

So that's it so far, yes it is fantastic that they are increasing their amount of organic veg but seriously, we should be growing this stuff in this country and not shipping it in from all over the world! It's not like it's unusual veg or anything is it??
 So we can either buy food without chemicals that has been shipped a looooong way, or we eat stuff with chemicals that are grown in our own country and has less of a carbon footprint. Crazy huh?? What drives me even more insane is that we grow a bunch of veg here on the island where I live but then we ship it off and ship those same foodstuffs in from other places in the UK or from around the world. It is INSANE!!
 It kinda reminds me of the times when I have gone down to the ferry in Cowes and you are being passed by all these people who are working in Newport and you are in a line of people who are heading in the opposite direction to work in Cowes. It is nuts lol.

That's not the only thing that annoys the hell out of me when I'm shopping. I hate it when companies change their ingredients. For example the Bisto Best vegetarian gravy (and some of the other flavours) used to be gluten free but now for some weird reason they have now added wheat to the ingredients...why?? Why would you do that? It makes no sense! It was perfectly good the way it was before but now they are restricting even more people from buying and enjoying their product.

Also instore bakery bread. Most supermarkets who have an instore bakery are selling bread not suitable to people who are vegan, who have milk or egg allergies. There are only one or two that may be passable and a tiny fraction that are vegan but other than that the baking process includes milk and egg powder. Some bakers in these places when I have asked them didn't actually know what the ingredients were initially which I find disturbing, how can you be a baker and not know what you are using?? Why does bread have to have milk and egg in it anyway? I sure as hell never used to use either when I baked bread.
 Tescos and Sainsburys were very upfront about the fact that they weren't suitable for vegans and were very apologetic, Morrisons not so much and they had the baker who haad no clue. Lidl actually has a folder and you can ask to look at it and it will tell you whether it is suitable for vegetarians/vegans and whether it contains any of the main allergens. This I think is brilliant and they should be commended and there are actually a few things in the Lidl bakery that we can have as vegans so that's cool.
My daughter is the one that is Coeliac and I look at the labelled 'Gluten Free' products and I am disgusted. They are not very good for you and most of the breads aren't vegan either as they have egg in them. But along with that gf foods are high in sugar, fats and salt...and did I mention horrible??? You can eat a healthy gf diet but not really by using labelled gf foods.

Ok I have ranted enough for now. So if you think you know the foods you can eat, please check because they often change the recipes whenever they see fit. Keep vigilant, read the labels and write letters to complain, so these people know they are being idiots by messing with our foods!