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Post by exile on Feb 7, 2024 10:45:30 GMT 1
Yes I do. I cannot afford to pay out 15€/kg more - and I would not consider myself hard up. I don't buy many - perhaps 3-4 legs per year for the traditional Sunday roast. All the other lamb we buy is French. I do wonder what happens to NZ lamb chops, shoulder and neck. I guess it goes to places like China.
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 7, 2024 11:07:34 GMT 1
I can't blame you for buying NZ , it is good lamb but of course has had a long journey. Perhaps it is sold to France in exchange for fighter planes , who knows. I gave up trying to sell my lamb to local Brits because of the price comparison. Mine probably goes to Paris to top restauramts ? Looking on line certified organic lamb direct from the farm is offered at €25/kilo.
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Post by jackie on Feb 7, 2024 11:12:00 GMT 1
Exile - can’t do you lamb here in Brittany but there’s loads of cheap, not very tasty, mass produced pork here raised in soul-destroying conditions in huge buildings and then shipped to 24 hour abattoirs. Price in supermarkets is less than a lot of the veg…..
Personally we eat less meat but ensure we buy more ethically raised meat - more expensive but worth it….
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Post by Aardvark on Feb 7, 2024 12:16:51 GMT 1
Nice to have the choice.
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Post by mysty on Feb 7, 2024 12:27:05 GMT 1
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 7, 2024 12:59:08 GMT 1
Everyone has the choice , you can eat cheap and a lot or you can eat expensive and less.
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Post by jackie on Feb 7, 2024 13:44:21 GMT 1
Everyone has the choice , you can eat cheap and a lot or you can eat expensive and less. Years ago, pre factory farming you didn’t have a choice, also the war ‘eke it out’ mentality persisted. It was all ‘expensive’ and needed to go a long way, hence yorkie puds, stuffing etc…. I come from a working class background, a chicken for Sunday lunch fed six of us and was padded out with other cheaper stuff. Leftovers would feed us the next day. I look at roast dinner sites on Facebook and very often there is more than 1 meat joint and 1 plated meal would have fed a family of four years ago…. Aardvark - I consider myself very fortunate to be able to afford better quality meat and am very aware to make the very most of it and not waste a scrap. I’m trying to do the right thing, supporting local farmers who have turned their backs on mass production and who try and give their animals a decent life before slaughter and don’t need to be made to feel guilty about it.
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Post by exile on Feb 7, 2024 14:36:44 GMT 1
Everyone has the choice , you can eat cheap and a lot or you can eat expensive and less. or you can buy very expensive and not eat at all. Just to put French leg of lamb into perspective: it is more expensive per kilo than the bio-chapon I bought for Xmas. jackie you are right about pork - and it gets sold well beyond the far west - but don't think that is unique. Chicken at a tad over €3.25/kg!
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 7, 2024 15:23:44 GMT 1
No pork for us ,last time we tried it, it was a disappointment, certainly not a chicken that can be sold so cheap . It depends on your priorities, ours is good food for good health. Tomorrow will be our first meat day this week , curry from the left over chapon from christmas.
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Post by jeliecrack on Feb 7, 2024 15:25:49 GMT 1
As intermarche own pig farms, don't you think they would be selling it cheaper?
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Post by gigi on Feb 7, 2024 16:31:25 GMT 1
Yes, Jackie, food had to be eked out with stuffing, Yorkshire puddings or dumplings and plenty of vegs when I was young too - I had 2 big brothers, of whom it was said they had hollow legs, five of us altogether with our parents.
In the 50s and 60s we had a chicken for Christmas Day lunch, with Yorkshires and all the trimmings; then cold on Boxing Day with more Yorkshires and stuffing etc, with the carcass making a rich soup served with dumplings on the following day.
We’d have Mum’s bacon and egg tart one day each week (Polish eggs from the Coop) with plenty of vegs filled us too - Dad was a keen gardener and grew large amounts of vegs, also soft fruit, plus he grew huge amounts of tomatoes, delicious, especially picked straight from the vines.
We’re lucky to be able to afford food we enjoy, though it wasn’t always the case when we moved south to Berkshire from Staffordshire nearly 50 years ago, when I was always glad when child benefit day came round. We prefer to eat local - some of the distances food travels is terrible - saw asparagus from Peru today; there’s no asparagus grown locally to us in Berkshire. We love the very local green asparagus in the Gard - we know several local growers and walk past their fields regularly with our walking group, anticipating when we’ll be able to enjoy it.
We also prefer to eat small portions of good quality meat, normally once a week, occasionally twice if we can get local venison, fish once a week, maybe a vegetable tagine or stew, another day a bean casserole or a quiche, all with plenty of vegs.
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Post by omegal on Feb 7, 2024 17:53:23 GMT 1
As intermarche own pig farms, don't you think they would be selling it cheaper? Many years back they sold cassettes of around 30 or so pork chops and joint or two at a really low price, usually if my memory is correct, around September time.
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Post by exile on Feb 7, 2024 19:24:03 GMT 1
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