Buying from local markets!

Patsy70

£20 for all that meat sounds rather suspicious to me. Why would you buy it if you can’t freeze it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was only going to buy the steak but then he persuaded me to have the rest. We have a small freezer so we can freeze some of it. I’m going to buy from the fish stall next week.

I shop in the small market in our local country town in Oxfordshire. It has an excellent, no, superb fruit and veg stall. Fruit and veg getting close to its sell by date is piled up generously into plastic bowls and sold at £1.50 a bowl, it has only just gone up from a £1.00

Other stalls there are a local artisan baker, fish stall, cheese stall, egg stall. Very like a farmers market.

I would never buy cheap meat with no provenance. Meat I buy has to meet high welfare standards, Pasture for Life or Organic.

I’m surprised the local environmental health office haven’t heard about this business.

£20 for all that meat !!!!!!!!

£20 for all that meat sounds rather suspicious to me. Why would you buy it if you can’t freeze it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Another local town has opened up a new shopping area on the outskirts of the town. Because the rent is cheap everyone is moving there and a man that had a stall on the Main Street on Saturdays has stopped going there as his trade has disappeared because all of the local go there. The side streets are full of fabulous little shops but on the Main Street they’re either empty or charity shops. I assume it’s because the rent is too high.

I would be very concerned about the provenance of such cheap meat. It could be stolen,nor the animals stolen and illegally slaughtered, or unfit for human consumption. And if you don’t have a freezer what are you going to do with it? Why buy such quantity? You are right feel bad about it.

Not many little towns have local markets left!

Where I live the local weekly market thrived, and folk from outlying villages would use it regularly, now there's only about 10 stalls left and very few locals travel into town for it (they shop in the large close by supermarkets.) There's one fruit'n'vegetable stall left, which I discovered cost more than Waitrose to buy from (probably doesn't help matters)