Obsessions
For some unknown reason, I don’t believe my eleven year old son has had a single mention in my ramblings to date. Sorry mate.
Reflecting on this, I think it’s because he generally keeps his head down and keeps his comments to himself, not like most of the other members of this family!
It’s not always been his way though and that set me thinking about his obsessions over the years…..his collection of horses at three years old was extensive and his love of Pokemon cards was enough to drive us all to distraction! He also went through a stage where all he would eat on bread was chocolate spread. A phase it may have been, but it lasted well over a year and meant our supply of chocolate spread could never be allowed to run out. Or else….
So it’s a shame fair trade chocolate spread was not available in those days. It is now, in abundance - even Asda have their own label version. All you could get in those days was honey (which one son loved and the other hated) and peanut butter (cashew butter was an alternative for the really sound!). We could never convince our kids to eat peanut butter, even with jam as some were in the habit of doing - maybe because they could sense that I hated it with a passion.
Now you can get fair trade jam and marmalade too. So all the family have something to spread.
Well, apart from our dairy fairies, that is, who await the arrival of fair trade cheese spread with anticipation!
Filed under: fair trade, shopping on May 30th, 2007
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