Thanks for the heads up re: Rosella
Will keep an eye out for it. If our useless local supermarket has it, I'll buy it plus other of their products if possible
When the contaminated berry thing was on, I posted about most brands of frozen foods wearing the 'packed in NZ' (actually Chinese) claim and forwarded information I'd picked up in the msm about Edgells and Birds Eye claiming to be the last of the grown-in-Oz suppliers
Discovered the other day that some Edgells and Birds Eye frozen foods are labelled, 'contains local and imported'
Some are 'grown in Australia-packed in Australia'
so have to check the packets each time to see what you're getting
Spaghetti and similar sauces are from all over the place as I discovered today. Some brands are marked 'China', even though they're well-known and trusted brands. Others are 'imported and local' ingredients. Five Brothers I think was one of the few made in Oz from Australian produce. Too many brands to keep in memory, so again a matter of checking labels each time you buy because the way things are moving, things are subject to change all the time
When it comes to tomatoes, 'Made in Italy' to me now means most likely Chinese pulps and pastes but packaged in Italy so no thanks
and will have to try harder to get to the bottom of olive oils because last I read, even analysts in Oz labs claimed they 'hadn't a clue' what many of the 'Made in Italy' and Spainish olive oils contain or even are
bought Australian olive oil a few times to be sure it wasn't adulterated engine oil from China, but the Aussie olive oil seemed to us to lack taste almost entirely and didn't have the distinctive olive oil scent. Might look for grown in oz, bottled in Oz grape oil and see what that's like
Anyway, at least we have Rosella tomato sauce, so thanks for that