Venison , should we eat more of it?

Our farmers market has a stall - The Wild Meat Company - lots of venison when in season (deer are becoming a problem around here). They tell you which sort too - roe, red, etc. Sometimes we're lucky and may get hare too. The local butcher has a contact who delivers rabbits and game birds, so we're a bit spoilt for choice.

(Just looked up The Wild Meat Co - www.wildmeat.co.uk - they deliver!)

Bags perhaps I should have said "should we be ^encouraged" to eat more of it"

I think perhaps that many people are a bit reluctant to try something "new". Our local Morrison's has the most amazing display of "exotic" fruits and vegetables, many of which I have never heard of or seen before. (They also have an incredibly wide range of different mushrooms, one variety of which look as if they are some strange species of rising damp, not sure if you should cook them or contact Rentokil)

Most of the veg have accompanying information re. how to cook etc, but I still feel that many people don't buy them because they don't know if they will like them. I think in some ways this could also apply to venison.

I wish more supermarkets would do demonstrations and offer tasting samples. I would love to try some of the veg, but can't afford to waste money buying something that we may find we don't like.

We used to live near a ginormous Sainsburys which stocked those interesting veggies and fruit and we did try some, following the instructions given, but I can't think of anything more exotic than mangoes that we actually liked or seemed worth the effort.
Where we live now there's so much good local stuff that we rarely food shop in the major supermarkets and eat fruit in season much more as it tastes so much better.
We're very lucky - but fatter.

It's certainly a pity if you can't buy a small amount of a new vegetable or fruit or meat (or whatever) just to give it a try.

I think where I differ from most people about food "shoulds" is that I don't regard any meat better or worse than any other. I just regard it all as food which I may or may not like. Aside from just staying alive, and it being available, liking or not liking is my only reason for eating any particular food. I feel fortunate, as we all are, to have so much choice. That's the reason I said there souldn't be any shoulds, if you see what I mean.

My GP says I'm healthy. I guess he means I've nothing wrong with me that can be attributed to bad lifestyle or eating choices. (Presumably ME and arthritis don't count as 'unhealthy', just a nuisance). Fortunate again, and thankful for it

We're actually well supplied when it comes to fresh meat. Every year we buy a piglet which is then 'fostered' on our behalf by a friend with a smallholding. We pay for food and occasionally supply fresh scraps and after a few months this little piggy goes to market and comes home to my freezer as a variety of sausages, joints, chops etc. Once or twice a year my husband also buys a whole deer. He skins and butchers it himself and the venison goes into the freezer. We get fresh eggs from two sources and in exchange I provide jams and preserves. The allotment pretty much keeps us in salads, fruits and vegetables for most of the year although we're now discovering those things, such as onions for instance, that are more economical to buy rather than grow. I also grow a few flowers for picking in the summer, but I suspect we've set the seeds a little early this year.