Are the market versions nicer than the supermarket? I'll let you know when they get eaten. :)
Are they more free-range and organic and so on? I didn't go to the "Organic meats" butcher, but there are about 4 or 5 butchers in the Covered Market alone, I should invesitage prices in all of them, really.
Is there still a real market some days in gloc green? Yep. ISTR someone mentioning it was only open 9-12, though, which isn't terribly helpful for me.
Covered market is for poshers. Go to Gloucester Green, clearly. Bread and sossidges though, that's stuff that supermarkets do sell really cheap, and I'm not sure what difference in quality you'll notice in bread between a market and an in-store bakery.
It's all about the fruit and veg, basically, and buying in season. I guess the farmers' market is this Thursday too, whatever it's like in January I certainly don't know.
Bread and sossidges though, that's stuff that supermarkets do sell really cheap
My aim was really to see if I could forego the evil baby-stealing supermarkets as much as possible (and to find out how much this was) in favour of independent small shops. This may prove ludicrously expensive or impractical in the long run, but I thought I'd give it a go.
A bit more expensive I can live with, especially if I'm only getting stuff I need, and not picking random stuff up in the supermarket because I feel like it. A lot more expensive, however, will require harder thought. :)
What the cat in the daft hat said - things like bread and milk are apparently 'known value items', the ones people judge value-for-money by, so the supermarkets sell them at a deliberate loss to attract trade.
Farmers' Markets I have already told you about. Bread I make myself, but there's a couple of stalls at the Gloucester Green one. Sausages from Farmers Markets will come in somewhere between your sainser's price and the Covered Market one.
There's a proper butcher at the top end of Summertown, but since it's got "organic" in its name, and is in Summertown, it's probably expensive. The one beyond Tescos on Cowley Road is excellent, but not in your direction.
Oh, and you have car, so stock up at farm shops. We went to Millets Farm, which is good, but perhaps a little too commercial. However on the way there we passed a lovely farm shop (on the road leading to it). We bought eggs there, because we could see the hens from the car park.
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Date: 2005-01-04 02:23 pm (UTC)Are they more free-range and organic and so on?
Is there still a real market some days in gloc green?
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Date: 2005-01-04 02:28 pm (UTC)I'll let you know when they get eaten. :)
Are they more free-range and organic and so on?
I didn't go to the "Organic meats" butcher, but there are about 4 or 5 butchers in the Covered Market alone, I should invesitage prices in all of them, really.
Is there still a real market some days in gloc green?
Yep. ISTR someone mentioning it was only open 9-12, though, which isn't terribly helpful for me.
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Date: 2005-01-04 02:31 pm (UTC)It's all about the fruit and veg, basically, and buying in season. I guess the farmers' market is this Thursday too, whatever it's like in January I certainly don't know.
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Date: 2005-01-04 03:24 pm (UTC)My aim was really to see if I could forego the evil baby-stealing supermarkets as much as possible (and to find out how much this was) in favour of independent small shops. This may prove ludicrously expensive or impractical in the long run, but I thought I'd give it a go.
A bit more expensive I can live with, especially if I'm only getting stuff I need, and not picking random stuff up in the supermarket because I feel like it. A lot more expensive, however, will require harder thought. :)
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Date: 2005-01-04 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-04 03:03 pm (UTC)There's a proper butcher at the top end of Summertown, but since it's got "organic" in its name, and is in Summertown, it's probably expensive. The one beyond Tescos on Cowley Road is excellent, but not in your direction.
Oh, and you have car, so stock up at farm shops. We went to Millets Farm, which is good, but perhaps a little too commercial. However on the way there we passed a lovely farm shop (on the road leading to it). We bought eggs there, because we could see the hens from the car park.