Who has moved in order to fit the 80-10-10 lifestyle?

Hi guys,

I live in the UK, in a place called Plymouth in Devon. It is damp, grey cold and rainy. In fact we say 'it rains 9 months of the year and the other 3 are winter'

Most of the fruit is hard and expensive in the middle of summer so I am dreading the winter, I can't imagine how I will get stuff to eat.

I used to live in Spain, france and portugal and I LOVE the climate, so warm and so much cheap RIPE fruit!

I am wanting to move back asap and it made wonder if any of you fruity lot had actually moved somewhere warmer to make life on 80-10-10 a little easier??

answers on a postcard lol

xx star

Tags: abroad, food, fruit, moving, raw, spain

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Permalink Reply by oxabbsxo on August 13, 2011 at 3:46am

i live on the northeast coast of america, and i have the same problem ): nothing good grows in the winter, the land's dead and colorless... i mean hey, snow's pretty and all, and i love sledding, but something's missing.
my dream was to move to san diego before i came across the lfrv lifestyle, but it fits perfectly. (: the sunshine, the ocean, the loads of local fruit...
i wouldn't be able to live where you do, so i respect you for that. i get clinically depressed ALL WINTER

guess some of us are just born for sunshine and fruit, huh? (:

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 13, 2011 at 4:23am

I get depressed all winter too and the the last 2 summe3rs here have been awful so then I get depressed in summer too! I am part mediteranean so I am deffo not built for a british climate, brrrr

I just gotta wait for my man to finish college next summer *sigh*

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Permalink Reply by GuavaGirl on August 14, 2011 at 2:27am

guess some of us are just born for sunshine and fruit, huh? (:

Hehhaaa, well technically we all are!!

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 13, 2011 at 4:21am

I totally feel for you, I visited Denmark and froze to death nearly, it was only october! Lovely place but cold!!

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Permalink Reply by Tris Curtis on August 14, 2011 at 11:24pm

Hahaha!

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 13, 2011 at 9:30am

expensive! organic bananas £2 for half a kilo, mangoes £2 - £250 each (non-organic). Berries £3-£4 for a tiny 300-400g punnet (non-organic). This is summer prices in winter, you can't even get these items (apart from bananas).

My fruit bill is about £80-£100 a week

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Permalink Reply by Roberta on August 13, 2011 at 10:21am

Hi Star! I live in the UK too and agree with you, fruit is very expensive here. Have you tried riverford.co.uk? They deliver organic fruit and veg UK wide and are a bit cheaper than supermarkets...and the quality is so much better!

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 13, 2011 at 8:47pm

Yeah I already use them, but they dont do berries at all so I have to pay riduclous supermarket price for them and thats if they have any organic berries in. My current stash of organic raspberries was £2.50 for a mere 125g!!!

I don think Riverford are especially cheap though, some of their stuff is more expensive than supermarket organic, but much better quality. I used them for bulking buying salad greens, melons, oranges and bananas

the bonus is that they bring it to me and I dont have to carry it lol

xx star

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Permalink Reply by Jack on August 13, 2011 at 7:35pm

Really Star? Even in our little town, Waitrose has organic bananas at £1.30 / kg and fairtrade bananas that taste just as good for £0.68 / kg, non-organic but tasty mangoes for £1 each. Berries aren't worth the bother, they're crazy like £15 kg something when you do the maths.

But yeah, unless you live on non-organic bananas only, spending less than £100 a week is tricky. And you're still not getting quality produce.

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 13, 2011 at 9:05pm

Waitrose is good for fruit but we dont have one here :-(

I used to spend so little in spain to get my food, gotta leave!!

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Everett on August 14, 2011 at 11:57am

I've thought about moving to NC Dan. I heard it has a wonderful climate. Here in Idaho we have amazing summers. Spring and fall are not so bad either, but we do have winter. Thankfully we get a lot of sun. About 340 days a year of sunshine. That is one good thing :)