Having one of these helps in my part of the UK
I used to grow my own cherry tomatoes in a polytunnel. A great taste and I ate lots of them. Then I learn that anyone with kidney problems should only eat a minimal amount of tomatoes (if any). None growing this year and the polytunnel is gone. I don’t even buy tomatoes now.
sorry to here that,
It’s not just you, food really does taste different now.
My mother was a good cook, and we lived in a farming community. The war finished 7 years before I arrived, there seemed to be no shortages. Pheasants, rabbits and I don’t know what shot by my father, salmon poached from the river, homegrown fruit & veg. Good wholesome food. Today we don’t know what we are eating or where it from, a test-tube? Engineered to look good on the supermarket shelf before quickly turning strange colours. 
We buy organic sometimes but not always, not always convinced. We try to avoid processed, but our efforts are half-hearted. We had beans on toast the other day, first tin of Heinz Beans in years, they were pretty horrid, I didn’t recognise the taste, what are they doing to them now?
You can’t beat a tasty Peasant 
We never looked down on them. 
I think we are all Pheasant Pluckers, yes?
We lived on a farm in Scotland so we always had fresh meat including venison.
But is the so called procesed food we buy today anything to do with the increase in the mental health people are suffering? And the vast increase in Cancer?
You’re wright we really do not know what we are eating and to talk about cooking !
A lot of adults today can not cook, In the past the younger kids helped in the kitchen and mum & gran passed on the skills they learnt,
We all know we have fallen into the trap of both parents working to keep the house going,
But at what price ? Really at what price, ie the grant parents have not reached the age of retiring and putting their feet up, many are looking after the grand kids while mum & dad go to work and come home knackerd and that will be the long term future , All because we feel or are told we’re better off than the past; Are we & really,
daniel, not being “Working Class” anymore has come at a cost, that’s just a fact of this life.
Class is not for sale.
Folks used to be happy with a Picnic, now they want all inclusive.
And how would the other side of the coin, the vast increase in life expectancy fit in?
Many folks have been sold down the river, aspiring to it 
Don’t sell your soul to rock 'n roll. 
I am not convinced that there is a vast increase in cancer. People are living longer, cancer is not a single disease but it is largely a disease of old age, a century ago people didn’t live long enough to get cancer.
If cancer is increasing vastly why is life expectancy increasing also?
There’s a massive increase in diabetes type II in the UK, which has been directly linked to processed food & couch potato lifestyles. That combined with heart disease is more or less prevented by lifestyle changes in younger adults.
We have done well to make smoking unfashionable/banned. Fewer seem to be vaping too. I’ve noticed alcohol is a big factor too (since I stopped drinking).
I’m not sure how many in the UK die as a result of a combination of Diabetes and Heart disease, but at least 3 guys in my life in their 50s have died recently as a result. Ref cancer, I’m more worried about toxins and chemicals in everyday life. More so than food.
I’m not sure of the difference of cooking from fresh to prevent disease, if you put just as much saturated fat in and fry up chips from scratch after peeling the spuds yourself, it’s no healthier.
Not easy to get the balance right and live a life of denial in order to live longer. They say fasting a day or two a week is good. Wonder whether anyone here has tried that.
I’ve never been that careful about diet. I suppose it could be said that I would have been healthier than I am if I had been more careful. Who knows for sure? Too late to be worrying at 80 I guess. I eat a fair bit of fresh fruit and veg but there are some very tasty so called ‘junk foods’ around that I eat as well.
Hi Annie’S
Very well said,