A note on ingredients and a request for advice.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

I just wanted to air my frustrations and ask for your opinions.

let's call her Jane Doe...

Whenever I eat dinner at Jane Doe's house, she works so hard to make everything good.

But Jane Doe shops at the local supermarket, where one can buy stale, tasteless national brands and food with preservatives in it.

When I eat Jane Doe's cooking, all I can taste are the shitty ingredients that taste like cardboard and corn syrup and MSG.

I try to be polite and it's not that Jane is a bad cook, but I really want to introduce Jane to the idea of ingredient quality mattering as much as, or more than, technique.

How can I introduce Jane to local, organic foods from small-scale farmers without criticizing Jane? Jane believes that local, organic food is a hippy fad and something to fear as "unAmerican".

Thanks in advance for the advice. I'd like to be tactful but also effective in making my point.

TheSmokingMonkey Reviewed by TheSmokingMonkey on 11-08-2007. A note on ingredients and a request for advice. I just wanted to air my frustrations and ask for your opinions. let's call her Jane Doe... Whenever I eat dinner at Jane Doe's house, she works so hard to make everything good. But Jane Doe shops at the local supermarket, where one can buy stale, tasteless national brands and food with preservatives in it. When I eat Jane Doe's cooking, all I can taste are the shitty ingredients that taste like cardboard and corn syrup and MSG. Rating: 5

[Coelho]

Jane believes that local, organic food is a hippy fad and something to fear as "unAmerican".

Well... sorry if im being rude, but if she is so patriot to only eat things allowed by the "American way of life", then she deserves to die from health problems caused by excess of mcdonalds and coke.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

LOL

that may be true. but come on here. I'm trying to make a difference in this person's quality of life and shit like that. part of the solution rather than the problem. yadda yadda.

[Flameon]

Hi SmokingMonkey

My own experience has been similar.
I've not been the biggest fan of our local supermarkets either, but until lately that's been more because I find the 'trolley rampages' and queuing a pain in the $%ss!

So when I saw that a local farmers market had set up an online shop, I thought I'd give them a try, and wow! They only sell organic food, and although the produce won't last as long (no preservative chemicals), the taste!. . the difference in taste is phenomenal.

Once a fortnight they deliver us a mixed box of fruit and vegetables (we never know what we're going to get), so, it makes us look up new recipes, which makes dinner more of an event, especially as the ingredients are all so good.

Perhaps you should get her a selection of organic veg to try. A kind of 'Pepsi challenge'. It worked for me.

Cheers! :thumbsup:

[TheSmokingMonkey]

Pepsi challenge! That is very smart. I think I might do that.