Author Topic: Where do you buy your food? (Read 1093 times)

Marlelar · « **on:** August 22, 2013, 03:17:30 PM »

Do you buy most of your food from the grocery store or do you have individual suppliers for things like meat and milk and fresh veggies.

I buy my milk from a woman who keeps a small dairy and my beef and whole chickens from a private rancher. We do not have a farmers market very close so I do not go on a regular basis and have to rely on the grocery store more than I care to.

Marsha

MyrnaM · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2013, 03:28:47 PM »

I buy my food at the grocery store and I don't worry a bit about it. My mom always bought from the grocery store and she will be 99 years old her next birthday. She loves, candy, ice cream, and everything we are told not to eat. :ready-to-eat:

She is not doing so well today, however, seems a little weak and wants to sleep a lot today. I just asked her, if she was having some good dreams that are making her sleep so much today, and she said,"oh yes, I am dreaming of how the world was created." Hmmmmmmm!

ggreg · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2013, 06:36:44 PM »

Meat at Smithfield Market. Fruit and Vegetables at New Spitalfields. Fish at Billingsgate. Staples, dry goods and bog rolls at the Cash and Carry. Everything else, diary for example at the Supermarket. Except eggs, which I buy from a local woman who has chickens roaming around her back garden. They are so fresh that they are often still warm to the touch.

I try to buy bulk and chop, seal and freeze or store.

jen51 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2013, 08:44:20 PM »

I buy grains from Whole Foods when I can get them on sale or have a coupon. I try to buy in bulk when I can, freezing it and pulling it out as needed. I go to our small town grocer if I need smaller, random items.

We raise the meat, eggs and dairy and vegetables. This year instead of raising butcher chickens we bought 75 of them freshly butchered from a family just north of us. We froze them.

poche · « **Reply #4 on:** August 23, 2013, 12:37:04 AM »

I buy some at the grocery store, some at the dollar store, and there are two specialty stores where I can get what I need.