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AdventureGirl

Joined: 01 Nov 2005
Posts: 55
Location: Cheltenham

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 8:52 pm Post subject: Cereals made with British wheat? Dolphin friendly tuna?

The only boxed cereals we usually have in our house are weetabix and shreddies (or supermarket equivalents).

I have started looking on the boxes to see which ones use wheat from the UK, but haven't found any that claim to do so.

Can anyone direct me to a suitable brand? I suspect that the Doves Farm wheat biscuits are probably alright but we tried those once and the kids hated them.

In a similar vein I picked up some John West tuna but had to put it back down again because it didn't claim to be dolphin friendly. Does anyone know what their policy is? I know that Princes and Waitrose own are alright.

Thanks for any info

countryman

Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Posts: 137
Location: Cornwall

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 9:23 pm Post subject:
I cant find a tin of Tuna freindly dolphin anywhere,double standards.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 9:56 pm Post subject:
I think Jordans cereals are from UK

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 10:04 pm Post subject:

countryman wrote:

I cant find a tin of Tuna freindly dolphin anywhere,double standards.

It does seem a little unfair doesn't it - the Tuna are such friendly chaps

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 10:22 pm Post subject:

This is old info, but dolphin friendly tuna is bad news. I can probably dig out the info when we move (in storage at the mo) but this is from memory:

regular tuna kills a few dolphins - 10 or 15 per ton, the odd sea turtle and 0.3 sharks

Dolphin friendly tuna kills one dolphin, 20 turtles, and 3000 sharks - and a lot of other stuff which i can't remember of the top of my head.

This was part of my conservation and biodiversity lectures at uni in 2000, so I'm conifdent of the source, although clearly it may be out of date by now.

sneeuwklokje

Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 277

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 10:35 pm Post subject:
Dove's Farm gluten/wheat cornflakes do not come from the UK, but from Italy.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 10:36 pm Post subject:
Have toast for breakfast!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 10:55 pm Post subject:
Or, better still: Porridge, bacon and eggs, kippers, sausages, mushrooms, devilled kidneys and bubble-and squeak. All of which can be UK produced.

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 07 11:12 pm Post subject:
Pertwood organics are produced in the UK.

gingerwelly

Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Posts: 419
Location: Wales ...in cardiff at the mo but from mid wales

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 12:01 am Post subject:
on the nfu page .. it states "The UK is the third largest cereal producer in the EU after France and Germany" lots of the cereal produced goes towards animal feeds, i cant find a cereal company that uses 100% british crops ......even the flour used for bread is about 70% import. most of the cereal used for malting is british though !

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 12:23 am Post subject:
Here's the link to Pertwood: https://www.pertwood.co.uk/index.php Their products are good.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 8:46 am Post subject:
As far as cereal goes I am not sure, could you source oats and dried fruit which are made in this country then you only need to add imported nuts and you have museli but as an interesting aside coca cola are now marking there cans if its make in the UK

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 9:19 am Post subject:
You're probably going to be limited to porridge for a cereal from the UK unless you're prepared to pay a lot more. That stuff in cans is not tuna - I'm not sure exactly what it is, but is sure as heck isn't anything that tastes like tuna.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 9:22 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

That stuff in cans is not tuna - I'm not sure exactly what it is, but is sure as heck isn't anything that tastes like tuna.

It doesn't taste like fresh tuna but it does taste good!

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 9:27 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

That stuff in cans is not tuna - I'm not sure exactly what it is, but is sure as heck isn't anything that tastes like tuna.

It doesn't taste like fresh tuna but it does taste good!

What!? Have you had a tastebud bypass? It's vile; people even resort to mushing it with mayonaise to disguise the flavour.

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