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We get the first peas and beans.
Into the summer, you get fruit, particularly hydrating fruits, things we need to hydrate our bodies like tomatoes and cucumbers.
Then into the autumn, you're getting things with much thicker skins like squashes, pumpkins.
And the kind of berry fruit, the things we eat all year round, that's when they're in season in Ireland is in the autumn.
And then finally into the winter, the plants are developing big, thick roots under the ground.
And they're the things, you know, the parsnips and carrots and things that we eat.
Potatoes.
Yeah, exactly.
So we've sort of unplugged from that.
you know, that sort of arc of a story of cycle through the year as well.
You're saying that nature gives us what we need at different times of the year and we should listen to it.
Exactly, exactly.
Instead of, and so like the avocado advice, and I don't want to harp on about avocados, but I think they're a great actually sort of talking point here because like somebody's told us they're really good for us, but there's loads of alternatives that are in season at different times of the year you could be putting on under your eggs, like broad beans, for example.
brussels sprouts a bit controversial maybe a christmas very controversial your eggs you know but like that and that's the point i think that why why do we think that we have to have this particular type of food instead of thinking about what's the most nutritious food that's in season at the moment
The other thing that's kind of, I think, gets missed with seasonal eating and with this mono diet we now have is in Ireland we have a gap, which is called the hungry gap.
And it's literally was called that because people used to go hungry at that time of the year.
Is that now?
And it's right now.
Exactly.
So it's much later than people think.