Having decided as a family to minimise our food spend at major supermarket chains (and completely stopped using 1 in particular), we now invest a little more time in visiting local businesses to source our produce.
One of the most satisfying things to do is to purchase locally produced food and this way you get the freshest ingredients for your kitchen and also get to support local businesses.
In addition to this, these same businesses will employ local staff so you are also assisting the local economy, so everybody wins!
We also visit a bi-monthly farmer’s market held in the local town, which not only has a fantastic array of locally sourced/grown produce, but is also introducing our daughter to the provenance of what she eats. The prices are generally very good for vegetables and you will pay a little more for meat, however the quality and taste is fantastic. They are all local suppliers and with several of them in one place, you generally get to benefit from healthy competition and get to sample a lot of food!
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IIt is refreshing to read the article promoting local produce. and people to support their local economy. Many years I have sourced local home grown produce’s.. I am pleased to see a growth in farmers markets.’ Yes you can really taste the difference’. if you support small local farmers and avoid major supermarkets.
Bel
@Bel – Good to hear from other people supporting local businesses! We visited the local Farmer’s Market last weekend and picked up some fantastic, home-made Game Pies….!