Once there were a variety of shops in the high street. Now they are gone. Now out of town we have some supermarkets. Has this change benefited society? Are we more healthy and content because of this change? Can we put the clock back? Should we put the clock back? Can we use what is in our memories to benefit the young and their future?
mmmm! les us see.
Good Morning, Doc ~
The question is, can we really do anything about it? The corner stores seemed to have shrivled up and died. They were quite nice to be a short distance that a young'n could even walk up to. Most everything now a days you have to drive to get there. It's all in the money. If you build it, they will come :P
Warm regards,
Frustrated
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you have only to look round we followed the USA , and who are the two fattest nations.
france italy spain dont have our health associated weight problems and they still mostly shop daily at markets and shops . my bro lives in the south of france
and shops at the moment sell what they sell and do not intrude on others terroties they do have hyper markets but there out of town .and are not allowed to sell certain goods
they dont have a drink problem with there youngest there taught to drink sensiably
and they have 3 types of police force . and funny enough if your causing the problem your the one thats removed . if a manager of a shop calls the police because theres aproblem there in that shop as a quick as a flash and your out
same as on the railaways any problems on the train and the police have you of no nicey nicey and everyone else has to suffer because some arse hole in being a pain you dont leave you are removed .
unfortunatly though the youngesters want more of the american kind of life not the french traditonal way so i suppose we will see more fat french people as well befor long
ask your self . before say 1980 how many fat children and adults did you know how many fat kids did you go to school with , in my class of 36 girls there was one girl you could call fat and one a bit chubby , that was 71/76 , now take a class of 36 and see how it adds up . junk school dinner, junk food at home,
we had great school dinners it was still canteen style but they were traditional food like stew with mash or boiled ,steak pie, sausage pie ,veg salad, puddings like jam sponge and custard , or choclate sponge and custard , rice pud , fruit .yogurt
yes you might be going god how unhealthy , but we were stuffed had no room for filling up with sweets and crisps from shop we brought mags ,and it kept us concentrating for the rest of the day, chips was once aweek and roast potaoes the same .
so my conclusion is when maggie said my food tec people say you can get as much goodness from a burger , and satrted with junk food dinners was a slippery slope , maggie was minster for education before priminster , she changed school dinners and reduced milk to infants only ,
now we have reaped what we have sowen ,and we cant go back .
I didn't want to be pessimistic and suggest that it's too late, so I'll be optimistic.
There have been government initiatives to encourage people to plant fruit trees vegetables, berry bushes in our gardens, herbs in window boxes for those with no gardens etc.
And programmes encouraging people to cook from scratch. More and more people are aware of the health benefits of organic foods. I think a lot of people see it our way and that's something!
In the town near my village there's a butcher who owns a farm and his animals are grass fed and not pumped full of antibiotics etc; the only reason he doesn't call himself an organic butcher is because he'd have to pay a lot of money to get certified organic.
His meat is the best I've ever tasted, and him, his wife and another man who works there love to chat with you and ask how you are over the counter! You don't get that in supermarkets. It makes my day shopping there! I haven't for ages but soon I'll go back.
great georgia wish i had one near by love to get holdof some beef soup bones , we have only 2 butchers left here now we did have 4 but since tescos came we have lost 2 , the meat is local but cant be sure its fed on grass ..
and when we need to put labels on fresh chickens by law ,to state that you need to cook before eating ,i dont hold out much hope for the future of home cooking. i am a very basic cook no great shakes , but i do like my meat meat and 2 veg ,
i prefer baking find that its rewarding even thou i rarely eat cake or biscuits .i keep meaning to have another look in my war time cook book but havent had the energy to be bothered .find it fascinating
There's also a local market on Fridays and Saturdays and the cheese man used to sell the most gorgeous goats cheese that I'd buy every week. But one day he didn't have any and he said Tesco were sending scouts round to spy on what's popular, then they starting sourcing it and selling it cheaper so he couldn't compete!
That butcher's is called TooGoods, and it really is good; hope they can stay for a long time.
Sometimes I can cook and sometimes I can't through lack of energy, and when I do it's basic, simple healthy food like you cook.
i miss spicey food but it kills me now ,i used to love the yellow and orabge peppers, and mushrooms in a sausage sandwich . yum yum sort of 50% bad and %50 good for you .kills me now . i love good thick porridge that you can stand a spoon up in ,but then i just have to have some good quality cream and a spoon of golden syrup on it . yum
cant stand goats cheese i have tried it the inational taste is fine but for some reason i started to feel nausea after a while same with goats milk
strange person i told you i was .
I miss chilli, especially chilli one of my friends used to make with fresh ingredients from scratch! He'd get a bunch of us sitting roung the table to eat and It was always a happy occassion.
We're all strange so you're in good company! 
yes my diet is so bland i cant even eat the onion family with out problems .
so i tend to go to long between food and get bad anyway.
have you tried any of the following.
serrapeptase supplement .
nutritional yeast its a deactivated yeast with a flovour like cheese and is low in sodium and fat, and full of b vits .
and collegean supplements supposed to aid flexability in tendons and joints and puff up skin .
iv tried the first one but not sure if it did me anygood or not .because its a pain when your taking several supplement at once because you dont no whats helping
hope your having a good day.
Good afternoon Frustrated,
If I take a huge wild guess I would interpret that as saying we are locked into a curse, at least in the short term.
Hi Tiswas,
So Maggie was like the farmer and too many of us sowed her way and ended up malnurished and overweight. Somehow, where we did our sowing and reaping was at the supermarkets who supplied what we thought we needed. We were wrong? We needed the grocer, greengrocer, fishmonger and the rest. We should have spent more time shopping, more time cooking, more time eating together as family. We would then be healthier, better fed and better shape.
Seems we need a supermarket culture like a hole in the head.
Though I can't do spices now I'm like an Indian woman throwing her spices in her food in handfuls, but with more cooling herbs like Chives, Parsley, Corriander, Sage, Basil etc, I chuck large amounts in. How are you with those kinds of cooking herbs?
My food isn't bland, it can't be because it's an effort to eat every day. I need motivation to want to cook and eat it.
I haven't tried what you mentioned but oils in my diet have given me younger looking skin and I'm quite agile when I move.
i agree .100% we should never have followed the states should have kept our way of life .and all the shops we had
but to be honest corn syrup which causes so much of the weight problem was actuly invented by the japeness .
I think it may have been invented by corn? 
That is a small beginning. To follow your optimistic lead the more revenue we can deny the supermarkets the more their Group profits are reduced. If enough people made quality shopping their priority the tide could be turned. The spermarket big sheds could be turned into multiple outlet markets. Hurray for the small trader.
. Seems you do not favour supermarkets.
That shows that it really is up to shoppers. Small traders canno compete against agressive cost cutting. Only a mass of determined shoppers comitted to buy from small traders and only compare prices beteen small traders and totally disregard the supermarket will the tide turn.
And now GM added to the problem even if (nominally) banned from the EU. That genie is certainly out of the bottle!
O man what are you doing to mankind!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!! 
The revolution is here, I'd better get my Wolfie Smith berry on.
and dont forget the great smelly afgan coats phew when they got wet they smelt like an old goat.
No wonder; we were wearing dog!
I loved Petuli oil on my leather jacket. It softens the leather. I still buy it and it has some amazing health properties. I can't say the same for Afgan coats though. 