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Organic Vegetables v Tesco Price Comparison

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 02:44PM
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Transition Exeter
A Low Carbon City

Price Comparison : 05 September 2009
Local Organic Vegetables & Tesco

Shillingford Organics

Large Veg Box

 Weight/

Count

 Tesco Metro Central Exeter

Price

(Weight Equiv.)

 Vegetable

 

Vegetable

 

 Potatoes

Onions

Carrots

Beetroot

Courgettes

Hispi Cabbage

Mini-Cucumbers

Little Peppers

Cherry Tomatoes

(with fresh basil)

Runner Beans

Parsley

Lettuce (Lollo Verde)

1.75kg

0.60kg

0.70kg

0.85kg

0.55kg

one

two

two

0.425kg

 

0.45kg

0.245kg

one

Potatoes*

Onions

Carrots

Beetroot *

Courgettes * n/o

Cabbage n/o

Whole cue'*

Single pepper *

Cherry Tomatoes

Runners * n/o

Parsley * n/o

Lettuce (Romaine) *

£1.46

£0.75

£1.11

£3.40

£1.00

£0.78

£1.00

£0.79

£1.81

£2.00

£4.77

£1.28

TOTAL

£13.00

TOTAL

£20.15

All vegetables grown in the UK

n/o = non organic (organic unavailable)

* = pre-packed

Little Gem Cooking Tips

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 02:04PM
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Baking Gem Squash

Baking gem squash is one of the simplest ways of serving them. Being small, gem squash work particularly well and they bake evenly. 

Ingredients

Serves 4 as a side dish - ½ squash each

  • 2 medium to large gem squash
  • Some aluminium foil

Method

  1. Chop the gem squash in half.  You'll need to use a sharp, heavy knife. Sometimes the skins are quite tough, so it is essential to be careful.
  2. Remove the stalk and use a dessert spoon to scoop out all the seeds. If you leave them in, the squash can taste bitter.
  3. Put the two halves of the squash back together and wrap loosely in foil. Make sure you are allowing any steam to escape, but not letting the juices leak.
  4. Bake at 180 degrees C for about 1/2 hour, or until the orange squash flesh is soft.

For a spicier version, you could drizzle with chilli oil before baking. (Not got any gem squash? This recipe also works well with butternut squash)

You could stuff with garlic mushrooms, part way through cooking. Or you could serve stuffed with a salsa of fresh tomato, olive oil and basil, which you could spoon in at the end of cooking.

Little Gem boiled in Water

Prick the skin in a few places and simmer in water for 20 minutes. Cut it in half and serve with butter and ground black pepper.

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