How I did

Day 1. (Wednesday 10th) Began the pledge with what was to become my regular breakfast - a bowl of porridge (oats from Pimhill) with rape seed oil from Cambridgeshire, ground linseed and Exmoor honey. For lunch I began an assault on my potato stash (expecting to eat a lot of them), with beetroot, a salad of lettuce, spring onions and broad beans, and that beautiful stickleton cheese.

After lunch I attempted to make some sourdough bread. I had a practice run with some rye flour before this week - it turned out wonderfully but sadly I haven’t been able to find rye flour grown in this country, so instead I turned to biodynamically grown wheat flour from Windmill Farm. Not so hot as it turns out - though it could have won a prize for the hardest ever loaf. Still I ate it, and made more - what choice did I have?

Compensated with a yummy supper of garlic and mushroom soup from a local farm, supplemented with split peas, cauliflower, fennel and spring onions. And for dessert I raided the freezer - for some rhubarb boiled with honey which I’d prepared weeks earlier in anticipation. So far so good.