I'm living off fish at the moment and I have to say I'm not missing meat at all. Everything I buy is filleted as I hate the bones!
I couldn't knowingly buy battery eggs due to the way the chickens are kept. When Dave's mum goes shopping she always buys the cheapest eggs, but when I do it for her she gets free range - if she doesn't like it she can go without!
Luckily Dave mainly takes her to Sainsburys, who don't sell battery eggs. Unfortunately Tesco and Asda don't have any principles!
My fish is not only filleted, it is boned as well so every last little bone is removed.
I don't hate anyone for what they buy and I'm sure there are things I eat that others wouldn't consider for one reason or another. I just think that all chickens should be allowed to roam freely and not be cooped up in very small cages.
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I can't always afford principles!! I do always buy the free range eggs but mostly eat a vegetarian diet because of the cost of ethically reared meat and sustainable fish. I do love a prawn curry and a spag bol tho so occasionally throw my principles to the wind!!
I buy my eggs from a woman at work who keeps chicken, I have never seen such yellow yolks they are wonderful, and also very fresh, the ones we normally have were laid the previous day.
If life is what you make it, I must have been in a strange mood when I made mine
Unfortunately while people won't make a stand (and I don't just mean about eggs!) things will carry on as they are.
Like Jan I don't hate anyone for what they buy, but I also think that chickens should be roaming free.
The only meat I eat regularly these days is chicken which I buy from our local organic butcher and it's cheaper than the supermarket! I buy trays of 4 large chicken breasts for £5, and as there's only the 2 of us that lasts 2 dinners.
All this talk of food is making me hungry, and its only just after 9am.
We have found that buying meat from our local market is cheaper than the supermarket. x
Its now time to start living and to make some some wonderful memories!
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We never buy meat from the supermarket, it's all from the local butcher which is cheaper and seems to better quality.
His sausage is to die for!
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kallis3 wrote:
We never buy meat from the supermarket, it's all from the local butcher which is cheaper and seems to better quality.
His sausage is to die for!
Also supports local business, which is so important especially these days!
Unfortunately I'm one of those vegetarian weirdos... but I look forward to my bi-weekly farmers market! Tried my hand at gardening too, and produced some reassuringly normal-looking potatoes.
I get our chicken from farm foods, frozen. Costs me £4.50 for aboutg 6 fillets. that does the three of us (really 2.5) 3 meals for the most part.
I love all fish and seafood, could live off that permanentaly quite happily if it weren't for the cost. The prawns are not bad these days. I get asda own bags think they about 2.25. very very tasty.
I'm hoping to grow my own spuds next year. In carrier bags !!!! Just need a few to sprout and then going to use the homemade compost with a bit of soil from the garden, mix it all up and plant them. Will put in the cold frame for winter, and hopefully next year we'll have some lovely spuds.
I could do with a plot in the garden for veggies, but at the moment its mainly used for child play !!!!
Skippy wrote:
I'm trying to cut out meat Liam (although I don't think I can cut out fish) so if you've got any veggie tips I'd be grateful!
I grew potatoes in pots this year - not a success unfortunately!
We're going to dig up part of our garden and have a veggie patch next year, so that could be interesting...
When you're limited I think that the important thing is to just be creative. It's easy to get bored if you just alternate between rice and pasta every day! I do lots of soups with leftovers, curries, pies, tarts, roulades.
We wrote a really simple vegetarian cookbook out in Madagascar when volunteering. It was all one-pot cooking, but the fruit and veg was so fresh and so cheap we could pretty much stuff ourselves for around 20p per day. Wish things were that simple here! I'll see if I can find it when I go home later this week - probably worth looking at just for the photographs!
If only we could eat that cheaply here, and have decent food...
Unfortunately it doesn't feel that cheap to the poor Malagasy- the exchange rate is terrible! Never seen poverty like it- if I can ever afford to go back and help again I will.
I used to love quorn and Linda McCartney stuff years ago. I'm not a big veg lover but love things like vegetable soups and anything with lentils. I'm particularly fond of Baxters lentil and bacon soup.
We also use an Indian supermarket for fresh veg of the more exotic varieties when hubby does his curries and the spices are so much cheaper from there and come in huge bags. I buy some ready made curry from there are well to take to work when I'm on a late shift.
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That's a great idea Jan - there's a great Chinese wholesale market in Manchester I go to sometimes which is cheaper and has much better variety than the big supermarkets for East-Asian cooking.
