Stop buying that awful mass-produced food and grow your own!
Since most houses don't have enough land to keep animals on, and the UK mainland is on about the same latitude as Moscow, you'll have to eschew most foods more exotic than potatoes or turnips and end up with the diet of a mediaeval peasant.

On the plus side though, you can use your home-grown organic food as an excuse to smug it right up over the Joneses. Even when you eventually get scurvy and all your teeth drop out.

This scheme is obviously no good if you live in a flat or a terraced house and can't spare 10-20 years on the waiting list for an allotment. But then again if you live in a flat or terraced house you probably wouldn't appreciate home-grown organic food anyway, you pleb.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 18:36, 8 replies)

i live in a flat
but there's a communal garden. last year i grew potatoes, spring onions, radishes and salad. even when i was in a high rise, i managed to grow spring onions and radishes in 3-litre coke bottles on the window ledge
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 19:26, closed)

Chillies and (small) tomatoes, that I know of,will grow on a window sill.
If your room gets enough light herbs will grow indoors in pots
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 22:36, closed)

Most of the windows in my flat face east, so they'll get 6 hours of direct sunlight at most, in summer.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 1:03, closed)

Yeah, there is that problem.
You could aleays leave the lights on? They may still grow, especially if it's warm.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 11 Nov 2011, 2:59, closed)

This won't really help as they need more UV than EL or incandescent bulbs give out
which is why serious dope growers use those massive industrial lamps.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 11 Nov 2011, 13:37, closed)

I get my allotment
this Saturday. I've been waiting for it since August last year. £25 for a year. I'll save that much just growing my own food. I can't wait!
(Lupetherabbit Went straight into smirk mode on, Thu 10 Nov 2011, 23:13, closed)

saunters smugly outside
to water lush garden filled with lettuce, herbs, tomatoes, chillies, zucchinis, cucumbers,beans, english spinach, a selection of asian greens...and to feed my chickens.

the ambient levels of smugness just hit critical.

but I'm lying. I got tomatoes.
(Gritty, yet fluffy. kipperpillock is obsessed with me =), Fri 11 Nov 2011, 2:14, closed)

I grew courgettes in a grow-bag a couple of years back
after an enthusiastic allotmenteer gave me a couple of her excess plants.

I put the bag in a sunny spot and kept it watered and eagerly watched over a couple of months as the plants grew flowers, and the flowers turned into fruits, and the fruits grew into proper vegetables! Must have been, ooh, at least two meals' worth. If I'd bought them from the shop, they'd have cost me... about half what the grow-bag cost. Erm.
( Batsgirl, Sat 12 Nov 2011, 21:23, closed)