Turnip heads

[Ben@Forest]

Who'd be a grower, sheep noshing on a large field of cabbages left unpicked yesterday in W.Lancs.

Brassicas are grown as a forage crop for livestock to eat, including kale, grazing turnips, stubble turnips and rape/kale hybrids are suitable for feeding to most cattle and sheep, it fills that gap in winter, early spring when the grass isn't growing and farmers don't want to buy in feed.

That photo is a little unusual, but there are other reasons why a crop is better eaten by livestock rather then harvested for the plate. The price being paid for the crop, or an infestation, or hard frosts (that we can't see here) that made it unsaleable being three. And if it was planted as feed any choice is informed by the price of the plant at the time of the planting.

[colin54]

Thanks Ben, that's most informative.

[al_yrpal]

Thanks Ben, that's most informative.

+1 Sheep grazing on root veg crop tops is a common sight in S Oxon for as long as I can remember.

Al

[francovendee]

I understand less is being shipped to the UK as growers can get a better price selling within the EU. The delays at the ports for returning trucks also deters some growers from shipping to the UK.
No shortages of any vegetables in my supermarkets but our prices are a lot higher than the UK.

[pete75]

Tates now up to 8 quid a sack. Even so works out at just 32p per kg. If the poor were to live on tates there'd be no need for food banks and it would prove 30p Lee Anderson was right. What Tory supporters would call a win-win.

[[XAP]Bob]

So less than 1kg of potato as your entire nutrition for the day...
That's about 870 calories, so doesn't even satisfy the basic energy requirements for a person, let alone any nutritional balance.
Oh, and you can't cook it either, because you used your entire budget to get some potato.

[mumbojumbo]

Root vegetables are excellent value, and when locally sourced, will mean transport costs, and emissions are minimised .Sadly many are unable to peel ,prepare and process these fine products-not so in Hungry , Poleand and Lathuania.

[Cugel]

Root vegetables are excellent value, and when locally sourced, will mean transport costs, and emissions are minimised .Sadly many are unable to peel ,prepare and process these fine products-not so in Hungry , Poleand and Lathuania.

I have spent hours and hours peeling, since early yoof, scrubbing, cleaning, chopping, slicing and otherwise preparing veg of every ilk and tittle. Are there really folk who can't even peel a tatty?

Of course, one may save time and effort by eating the skins of many veg - although the cooking times can increase. These days the cook needs an energy/time calculator-come-balancer to work out the most cost efficient way of dealing with a spud or neep. There's probably an app for that.

Cugel

[simonineaston]

Since I bought a potato ricer one time I was in Paimpol, I've given up on peeling tatties. For mash, I just cook them whole and Booof! into the ricer they go, with the soft fluffy inside leaving the skin behind. Likewise, for any other type of potato presentation - boulangere, dauphinoise / other gratins, penny chips, saute, you name it, peeling's a thing of the past - except just maybe, if I want to impress with fluffy golden roast pot.s. Can't recommend a potato ricer too highly. Makes short work of any other veg, too once they're cooked, eg swedes, parsnips, celeriac, carrots, squashes of all stripe, yadda yadda. Horrah for potato ricers, say I !!

[al_yrpal]

You were doing it wrong. All the best stuff is in the skins...


Al

[pete75]

So less than 1kg of potato as your entire nutrition for the day...
That's about 870 calories, so doesn't even satisfy the basic energy requirements for a person, let alone any nutritional balance.
Oh, and you can't cook it either, because you used your entire budget to get some potato.

I think he was talking about 30p a meal not a whole days food.

[[XAP]Bob]

Not entirely clear:

We show them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget – we can make a meal for about 30p a day – and this is cooking from scratch

Quoted in https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 78989.html


He might mean that people only need one meal a day - after all when are you going to eat the other when you're working 26 hours a day, and have to walk 7 miles uphill both ways to get t' pit.

[[XAP]Bob]

You were doing it wrong. All the best stuff is in the skins...

Too much fibre - would tear my insides apart (but yes, medical conditions aside...)

[pete75]

Not entirely clear:

We show them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget – we can make a meal for about 30p a day – and this is cooking from scratch

Quoted in https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 78989.html


He might mean that people only need one meal a day - after all when are you going to eat the other when you're working 26 hours a day, and have to walk 7 miles uphill both ways to get t' pit.

That's Yorkshire. He's in scab country - Nottinghamshire.

[Cugel]

Not entirely clear:

We show them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget – we can make a meal for about 30p a day – and this is cooking from scratch

Quoted in https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 78989.html


He might mean that people only need one meal a day - after all when are you going to eat the other when you're working 26 hours a day, and have to walk 7 miles uphill both ways to get t' pit.

Aye! And divn't ferget the time needed ti beat the wife and kids fer talkin' back and readin' them books!

Cugel Capp