A purported Female just emailed me **privately** regarding this post. THIS a
PRIME example of most of the unthinking females I have had the unfortunate
experience to have been associated with in the past. Small wonder I am now a
Gold Medal-Winning Mysogynist.
I do NOT class ALL members of the Opposite Sex as COMPLETE idiots - I mean -
Marie Curie - Amy Johnson - Margaret Thatcher - NO _Scrub the last one. She
WAS an idiot.
ANYWAY!.... (and I suspect it was actually an otherwise embarrased MAN who
posted this rubbish)

She said - - -

"What you suggest isn't making your own!

Why not make your own from tomatoes which you grow yourself?

Or just eat tomatoes which you grow yourself?

Mary"

What "MARY" should understand is that I live in an apartment flat that is
quite some distance from the ground.
She should understand that I - like MOST City and Town-dwelling people - do
NOT have a Garden or access to a growing area.
There is NO PLACE in my home suitable for sunshine growing- apart from ONE
window-sill that faces south - but which is already profusely populated with
Chilli Plant Bushes. THOSE Chilli Bushes - in passing interest - hold some
kind of a  VOODOO-CURSE spell (If you like) over CATS and they stay well
clear of them - so If you have problems with cats going where they should
not - put a Chilli plant nearby whatever you want the cats to steer clear
of. (Clever - huh?)

IDEALLY - I would do as **MARY** suggests and take the greatest of delight
in doing just that. Probably if I could, I might have been as busy all along
growing and eating my own Tomatoes and NOT be in the position I am now to be
posting here at all.
Prior to Cancer, I was - and still am - Diabetic - and Diabetes Dieticians
restricted severely my Tomato intake (Carbohydrates)  I have OTHER Health
concerns - and Coronary Dieticians vied acutely with the Diabetic ones to
PROMOTE Tomato consumption - all very confusing. - and then - wait for it -
the Cancer Dieticians get their heads in the door and shouting about
tomatoes and now it's Tomatii AND Brocculii. I mean - just HOW much can one
boy take in?
SO much to filter through what's rubbish and what's just SHITE - the rest
leaves very little REAL Information that's GENUINE in the seive.
Unfortunately - most of the GENUINE information is SO Diluted, it passes
through the mesh and is lost.

**MARY** seems to have missed the point - I was TRYING to say - "DONT BUY
READY PREPARED TOMATO JUICE BECAUSE WHAT YOU ARE BUYING IS 80 to 90% WATER"
and to avoid carrying WATER home with you, when it is so easily made at home
with a concentrate like Tomato Puree.

One of my responsibilities as a Catering Manager and Chef-Trainer, was to
make recipe instructions as foolproof as possible. I try to reflect that to
a much lesser extent in the recipes I post up. It's NOT always possible to
regulate Tom in Los Angeles and Bryn in Cardiff or Puka in Anchorage from
thinking they can drop something "else" into a stated recipe - so I now
encourage chefs and cooks to do what makes an interesting and tasty,
nutritious finished dish for the people who PAY for what's on the plate, and
always encouraged (rewarded at times) feedback on any recipe modifications.
AMONG all these recommendations to Chefs and Cooks, was to AVOID placing
orders - especially from units like Oil Rigs, offshore Units and on remote
Islands, foods that were based primarilly on WATER - that were high-volume
and were also High in transport costs. You BUY the best CONCENTRATES you
can - and re-hydrate them.
Transport Costs - related now to you guys in the same boat as myself - you
DON'T want to be carrying water home.
You COULD be carrying instead - the latest Comedy DVD - a LOT funnier and
LIGHTER than water....
Do I NEED to go on?
Hokay guys.
Stand Easy!
Hughie.