Our crusade to change the world by changing ourselves, and in particular the way we spend our money, has, after a quiet period, come to a few new developments this last month.

Thanks to our economy being in a better state than it has for a few years I’m trying to buy organic food in larger quantities. Despite it being a hot subject at present, the local supermarkets are still pretty rubbish at offering a wide range of (especially fresh) products. Organic vegetables are still to be found in a small corner section of the fruit and veg section, almost as an apology.

It’s nice to see organic tinned-tomatoes and beans making a show in a more familiar setting for the consumer. They have almost always exclusively been the domain of health-food shops, and they make a welcome entrance into the real world.

Finally, and something that has been playing on my mind for a while, is the re-introduction into my life of vegan toothpaste. It sounds stupid, but it is one of those items I am glad to have changed.

It is sad that, in order to be sound, one needs a reasonably good economy. There was a discussion here in Sweden last year about the possibility of a “fat-tax”, where healthy foods would be taxed at a lower rate than unhealthy ones. I don’t imagine that this will occur, especially now with a Conservative government in power; they have no problems in increasing the tax for tobacco for health reasons, though it seems too much to ask that they would try limit our consumption of shite, more the pity.