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It may have something to do with processing. My frozen tomatoes are not as acid and don't taste like metal. It may be solarnin, (probably spelt wrong) the poison in the leaves if the flower end is not totally removed.
Lamb needs to be cooked at 250 or less for a long time to be real good. Unlike mutton the fat doesn't all have to be removed. New Zealand Lamb is not lamb in the true sense. It is too old. To make Lamb burger simmer all the odd bits and remove most of the fat before grinding. The only thing that will give Lamb a bad taste is if the person skinning it gets lanolin from the hide on the meat. The farmer I get mine from is real careful.
Chickens are treated for a number of diseases so it doesn't matter if you get them local or out of the store. Feed is usually treated too for the first few bags. The only way to get real good chicken is to raise your own in a clean uncrowded building and treat them only for maraks disease. This is just a vaccine. You will lose a couple but the meat will be chemical free. It won't be any more tender but it does taste better. Cooked chicken like pork and lamb can have no pink.
There are advantages to living in the country that compensate for the inconvenience and expense. We have freight added onto everything. If I got all my food out of the store it would be higher than yours.
I have more than one deep freeze but that costs me power. But the taste of home grown food is worth it.
So here I sit looking out the window at a fairly silent world, only the birds singing and the sun is shining through smog free air. It is going to be a nice day. I've had breakfast and coffee, it is time to water seedlings and then figure out what to do for the rest of the day. Need to shop for those things I don't grow. I hate shopping on a nice day.
So I have to ask this. How did someone living in paradise get an anxiety disorder? I think it can happen anywhere and is probably an attitude thing.
I'm going to plant beets this year. I love pickled beets.
Davit.