I think the best thing to do would be to befriend a farmer, in that case, or stick with a trusted meat shop or deli that cities do have. IMO, it is worth the price to be sure of one's food.
The Foods We Eat and what they can do.
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Interesting conversation on food, with lots of emphasis on beef. I'd suggest going to one of the best websites I've ever seen on the subject: Eat Wild . If you're interested, this site provides pretty much everything you need to know about eating beef, and it's a real eye-opener with lots and lots of facts.
Try this site.....................Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels, nutritional information and analysis – NutritionData.com
I have never hear of Salba but Quinoa is a product people buy often from our bulk department but it is horribly expensive. People who are used to the cost don't blink an eye but people new to it almost choke!
Mowich - the organic beef is like all other organic meats, expensive but while it is of small comfort, there is nearly always a coupon in the flyer for organic beef. You have to watch the flyer because many people don't even glance at it. If you are watching it, you can get some reallygood organic buys. In a small town I would probably know you and know that was your interest and be able to tell you what's on. When it's busy and it's particularly busy right now, I don't tell anyone anything. I finally decided that if people are too lazy to read the flyer and don't know they are buying a "two for one" for example, I don't tell them unless my lineup is very short.
People are not savvy shoppers (the majority). They miss out on numerous sale prices and buy an inferior product at a higher price because they don't read. Any cashier can suspend an order so that all a customer has to do is go get the better product and pick up their buggy full of groceries and go through the line to pay. People waste enough time by not reading signs properly and then arguing about the placement of the sign thinking we'll give them the product at the price they think they read so a little more time shouldn't matter to them.
(the ones we really love are the truly lazy who come to the till and say "I forgot milk. Would you send someone to get it for me - I don't feel like walking to the back of the store").
"(the ones we really love are the truly lazy who come to the till and say "I forgot milk. Would you send someone to get it for me - I don't feel like walking to the back of the store")."- I think they do that for good reason.........It's beyond me why all the staples, bread, eggs, milk etc. are always located at the back of the store.
Want to know why staples are located at the back of the store, JLM? It is all about marketing. The placement of food items in any store is a competitive business. Manufacturers know that people will always need the staples so they make sure buyers have to pass buy shelves and shelves of other junk, hoping that on their way to the milk,etc. they will be enticed into purchasing one of their products. For the same reason, we see chocolate bars, gum, candy, and non-food merchandize right next to the cashier check-out line.
What is beyond me is why people don't go to restaurants and have a coffee while they chat, rather than stand and block isles at the market. I had to get rolled oats, tea, and a couple other items which probably would have taken a minute if I hadn't had to wait for people to stand aside after I said "excuse me". The last time I just injected myself between them and suggested coffee at a restaurant. One piped up and said I was rude. I stopped and turned to glare at her and said, "and blocking isles isn't rude?"
But anyway, if one can't get moose, elk, deer, etc. range fed critters is best and try buying blocks of cheese rather than those sliced bits of jelled goat phlegm that Kraft spews into market shelves.
You only wish that Kraft used something as natural as "jelled goat phlegm" in their "cheese products." Once a person has a taste of some REAL cheese (such as the stuff produced by Gort's Gouda in Salmon Arm, BC) it is hard to go back to the additive-laden garbage that most of us have come to accept as "cheese!" Jeez...
Hmmmn...Gort's Gouda. Stop! You are making my mouth water. They also have 'real' milk and cream as I recall.
:lol::lol::lol: I had that figured out years ago, what flaggergasts me is the merchants haven't got it figured out that we have it figured out. :lol::lol::lol:
Then there is that beautiful "pungent" Limberger cheese.......:lol::lol:
(Enough to knock a dead maggot off a gut wagon):lol:
How about the (in)famous Italian "maggot cheese?" That's the one you cut open and when the "ooze" begins to flow, you take a nice chunk of Italian bread and "smush" the maggots (which are in the oozey cheese) and eat it in one courageous bite. No, I haven't done it but I've seen it done. Smelly.
Good question! I have heard that some actually LIKE the taste of the maggots in that particular cheese. And, they are organic, right? Of course, so is the bottom of a swamp and I don't think I'd eat any of that either.
I used to travel extensively around Asia and, having eaten everything from pigeon heads to turtle steaks to the uncooked reproductive organs of a blowfish, I've come to the conclusion that food really is a matter of taste. And in some cases, courage!
Well, protein based bug is not the same as mud, but I would eat neither, also. I just don't like eating thinks that make my nose cringe.
lol Yup.