General Discussion
Do you buy any local produce ?
As the title says, do you buy local produce ? if you don't may I ask why ? We have found a few outlets of local produce does anyone know of anymore ? Duckellar farm, Port Road for pork/bacon etc Eggs roadside all over the place, farm shop on the warren road is pretty good, Lloyd Maunders is mainly local ish I'm told. Do people want to be able to buy from the farm or roadside ?
Limited budget - That implies local is more expensive. You can buy 6 eggs roadside for a £1, fresh rabbit for £2, I saw new potato's at £1 a kilo roadside a couple of months back, runner beans 50p a bunch at Cockwood he was also selling some fruit. I do appreciate your on a limited budget, I think if we don't support local we will lose them in the future. Thanks for replying and good on you for using those 2 shops.
Limited Budget/on a pension
15 eggs at Lidl. £1:25
6 or is it 5 Doughnuts at Sainsburys. £1, where as 60p each at bakers.
Why is it wrong and made to feel guilty to shop elsewhere when one is on a limited budget?
If I was at work and earning plenty of £££'s per week, then yes, I would shop locally but as I am not, then every penny counts.
I'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty I am merely asking peoples preference & why just so I understand others points of view, nice to see you back carer have you been on holiday ? I will pm you about bunnies.
I shop local where I can and where the produce is of a good quality, but I still use the supermarkets for most things simply because I work full time and need the convenience and I have 2 teenagers who consume food almost as fast as I can buy it
Selling eggs at the roadside is illegal unless packaged correctly, date stamped and origin traceable
Fred it's definately not, if you have less than 350 chickens and you are suppling to the end user or selling at the farm gate then no stamp required, no labelling required. Fred It's very dangerous to say someone is doing something illegally when it's not. May I point you in the direction of the DEFRA website all will be explained correctly on there.
That sounds about right. Get food poisoning from shop bought eggs- sue the hard working tax paying shop owner. Get the same from a kerb side seller who pays nothing out in overheads and theres no come back. No wonder the country's in such a state, would the same rules apply to home made wine and beer or home grown tobacco then. Dont think so
Fred I pay business rates & council tax on my property which includes my gate, I pay overheads as in insurance, feed costs, buildings etc and I pay tax on the profit I make. You have the same oppurtunity to sue the roadside seller as you do a shop, trading standards visit us, enviroment agency visit us, enviromental health visit us and Defra as a shop owner do you get all those visitors as standard when you start selling eggs ? As a shop owner you wouldn't be sued for food poisoning it would be the egg supplier. I think you just write these comments to wind people up, you can't really think a shop owner would be sued for someone else's product (cadbury's choclate)
Why should I try to wind up someone I dont even know thats a rather stupid comment, but if your the guy who puts eggs in a box outside Carew Court you still owe me £20. In these days of compensation culture people will sue you for anything. We have to produce a risk assesment portfolio for every concievable event on our premises and yes we get regular visits from trading standards, food hygiene inspector, customs and excise, VOSA, environmental health and anyone else wearing a suit and a plastic ID badge that happens to be passing.
jools, I apologise if my words are scambled, your post has made me boil, your eggsaggerating in your description I think it's a little eggscessive, you are really coming out of your shell now, your just too eggsciteable. People seem to think farmers have lots of money what they don't realise is that the farmers have to plough the profits back in for the future. (I'm sure someone can do better than that)