Sourcing your food?

[Argent]

So do to a recent conversation I had with a friend and how they just discovered a butcher shop we had to try like it was a new thing. I was wondering where people get there food from. Also a bit of disbelief that some Millennials think these are new thing when my family has always new them.

Overall there has been a raise of specialty food shops with Millennials and a greater focus on what is in food. So while it has gone to crazy levels in soem pamces overall it has helped a lot of people eat healthier and has been a life saver for a lot of smaller farms.

A lot of stuff like the local creamery or butcher shop disspeared in the 70's. But around 2010 there has been a resrugence in small local food providers outside larger grocery chains. We have even seen a large expasion of places like Whole Food that meets all your dairy and meat free ways.

Personally I do a mix of different stuff. I am pretty weird with my food sourcing compared to average.

I generally buy a half of cow from a local farm once a year in Feburary. It generall saves be a dollar or more per pound of meat depending on the cut. Now you do get some bad cuts like liver or tongue but you can still make. A decent meal if you cook them right.

Next is that I hunt and fish. This gives me mabey 100ish pound of venison and enough fish to fill a cooler with mainly Northern and Walleye. Depending on the year I may have some duck, Quail or Turkey. So I really don't by much meat at a grocery store outside some bacon or sausage.

For dairy I head to a lcoal creamery generay becasue tuey are cheaper then a normal store and the milk just tastes better

For veggies I get them druning the summer at a local farmer market. You can get any of the normal veggies from Tomatoes to Cucumbers. The rest of the year I get them at a normal grocery chain.

The rest of the food stuffs like chips or flour I get at a local discount chain.


So where do you get your food from?

Are you just picking up the sales at Walmart, living the high life with oat milk from Whole Foods or growing and hunting your own food?

 

[Arlos]

Meat from the butcher, vegetables from the sunday market, bread from the baker and fish from the fishmonger.

I also Hunt and fish, it usually get me some boar/deer/Hare meat and the fishes I get are freshwater fish.

The fact that Butcher shop ever disappeared (or were in risk off) in the US strike me as strange; there was never such dangers here. How peculiar.

Unless properly labeled or if I am on a tight budget, I never touch supermarket stuff.

 

[gral]

The fact that Butcher shop ever disappeared (or were in risk off) in the US strike me as strange; there was never such dangers here. How peculiar.

It's also happening in some parts of urban Brazil as well, like in the neighbourhood I live(here, it's tied to land/lot prices and commercial rents, but there are other places where it's happening as well). The butchery section of the supermarket takes over the place of the butcher in these cases.

 

[Argent]

It's also happening in some parts of urban Brazil as well, like in the neighbourhood I live(here, it's tied to land/lot prices and commercial rents, but there are other places where it's happening as well). The butchery section of the supermarket takes over the place of the butcher in these cases.

That is mainly what happened in the U.S. the larger chains expanded and pushed out smaller local shops with better costs and minimal drop in quality. Granted some stores have better butcher sections then others. Some will charge you a ton for a paper thin pork chop while others will sell great ones for you. While big box stores like Target and Walmart are just shameless in what they sell as ground beef.


They never truly disappeared but ended up being mainly in smaller farm areas and richer parts of big cities. What we are seeing now is an expansion into higher middle class area. I have also seen grocery stores imporving their offering in seafood and meat. Some of them are almost at the level of a local butcher shop.

 

[PsihoKekec]

Veggies from the garden or exchange with neighbors and relatives, eggs from coworker whose family raises chickens, beef and lamb from a farmer, yogurt from another farmer or the wending machine she supplies, milk from a nearby farmer, pork from butcher shop, fish and other stuff from supermarket.

 

[Zachowon]

Meat from the butcher, vegetables from the sunday market, bread from the baker and fish from the fishmonger.

I also Hunt and fish, it usually get me some boar/deer/Hare meat and the fishes I get are freshwater fish.

The fact that Butcher shop ever disappeared (or were in risk off) in the US strike me as strange; there was never such dangers here. How peculiar.

Unless properly labeled or if I am on a tight budget, I never touch supermarket stuff.

One thing i loved about my time in France.
The farmers markets. You always knew where it was coming from.

For years at an old house. My neighbor would raise pigs, send them to a friend, and get the meat back. He would raise a pig for us as well. We got eggs and veggies from him. The fruit he got from some friends of his. Even got deer from him.

 

[PsihoKekec]

My neighbor would raise pogs, send them to a friend

Better not visit that friend, now that you too are a pog.

 

[Zachowon]

Better not visit that friend, now that you too are a pog.

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I hate yall for always finding my typos

 

[prinCZess]

Used to be I'd stalk the advertising circulars and whatnot of every large chain in a thirty mile radius of where I lived, coordinate my trips/travel, and buy heaps of whatever was on sale at the best price in each place. Even pooled together our lists of needs and made semi-regular ventures to a local-ish 'Mormon Store' ('Home Storage Center' I think they're officially called...We always just used the colloquial) to get pallets of canned goods and bulk basics like flour and sugar to split between nine or ten people all total.

Meal planning was a bitch-and-a-half most weeks, and I got very used to the peculiaity of frozen-then-thawed milk or bread, but the grocery budget was kept small and I had that comforting sensation of always having food on-hand, even if it was something simple or canned that had to be doctored-up to be really 'good'. That got added onto with whatever we'd manage to snag hunting or fishing.

Nowadays I don't stalk the ads nearly as much and don't have to do the frozen milk and bread thing. By the power of a chest freezer got the room to take to buying beef and pork off a friend of the brother-in-law's who raises them and butchers them, some friends of mine who raise chickens I snag eggs off of (I seem to constantly break their yolks cooking them instead of the store-bought ones, but they do seem to taste better), and some others grow enough vegetables they drop me grab-bags of stuff during the summer that I 'pay' for in a bunch of baked goods. Fruit and some veggies have gotta be store pick-ups for me, and flour, sugar and baking stuff is still costco or (less-often now) the 'Mormon store' pick-ups for me just because I go through enough of it at a steady enough pace it makes more sense to do it that way--and I have room to store some of the bulk until I get to it.

It's not a 'Whole Foods' precisely, but a place near me that kind've does the same schtick of organic, frou-frou nonsense IS a really good place for spices and seasonings because they set out bins of the stuff and you measure out quantities--at a reasonable price for it all, as far as I've found. Useful for me so I don't end up with a big shaker of, like, mustard seed or some other random thing I just don't use much of, but I can get a deal on a big bag of cinnamon or nutmeg or the like.

 

[Brutus]

Started to get Veggies and eggs from the local farmers market nearby. Still have to find a butcher shop nearby. Great thing is less people to deal with.