The Hour

The Fife diet started in 2007 and its participants eat only produce grown and sourced in local regions of Scotland.

Mike Small started the diet and since then, Mike and friends are to due celebrate their 1000th member.

“It started about three years ago with fourteen of us; we are now coming up for 1000 people taking part,

“There are no real rules; in the first year that we did it we only ate food exclusively from Fife to test the region. At the end of that year we thought it was such good fun that we wanted to keep doing it.” Mike said.

All the participants have to do is pick the key foods they simply cannot live without such as chocolate, wine, tea and sugar. Then, everything else they eat is from their local area. 

With a great wide variety of local produce including cheeses, breads and fruit, Mike believes that we can survive the year through providing we use of freezers.

“We’ve got great soft fruits, strawberries, raspberries, brambles in Scotland, just freeze some of them and you’ve got smoothies all through the year.”

For those of you living in built-up areas such as towns and cities, don’t panic just yet, the local countryside’s can help, as Mike explains.

“We are going to have to change our food culture and re-localise due to climate change so the surrounding countryside will feed the cities and some growing in the cities as well.”

The diet can be cost effective too, as you spend less time in the supermarket buying expensive goods and impulse buying.

“The revelation was how much you can get in Scotland; there is an amazing range there,”

For more information the diet, visit Fife diet