Day 9

Breakfast: Shredded Wheat; Scones and Honey; Hot Apple and Blackcurrant.
Lunch: Oatcakes and Cheese; Braeburn Apples; Apple Juice and spring water.
Tea Time: Carrot and Parsnip Soup; Baked Potatoes with Cheese and Salad of Red Cabbage, Onion, Carrot and Brussel Sprouts
Snack: Biscuits and Rock Cakes.

Apples in February? How do they do that? Mainly by shipping them halfway round the world- but.. these were from the UK.
I thought it was most likely due to Irradiation.
But I thought I would see if I could find out. The apples I had were Braeburns from Hazel Street Farm in Kent. Here's what I found out on the interwebs: (I was pleasantly surprised.)
From the www.highweald.org website
Hazel Street Farm is a fruit farm managed by Richard Greenwood. Richard grows apples and pears and has cold stores and a pack house on site where the fruit is packed. The farm is a member of Produced in Kent and does much work to manage the land for wildlife as well as food. Wonderful views over the High Weald can be seen from the farm. Richard is very keen for young people to have a chance to see and take part in the process of producing fruit and sending it to supermarket.
And there is other information about storing apples for a few months without resorting to nuclear power on these websites. Link Link.