(8 December 2012, 17:59)Geordie_Rob Wrote: I can understand the need to mark things up to cover overheads but 5-7 times more than the price you pay for stock is plain old greed.
Maybe not the best idea going local independent after all!!!
(8 December 2012, 17:54)Houndlover Wrote: (8 December 2012, 11:11)SealDriver Wrote: (8 December 2012, 08:26)Geordie_Rob Wrote: I would love to shop only with local suppliers & independent shops but
(1) Tesco is literally a 3 minute drive away.
And
(2) If tesco want £1 for something & the independent shop wants £1.50, over the course of a month (roughly £250 to £300 on food shopping), its quite a saving I make.
To me it's like when people tell me I should only eat organic food. I would love to but sadly the cost stops me. I do grow some of my own food using my own compost & grow as organically as possible. If people haven't done so already, home grown spuds make the best chips I have ever tasted.
I used supply my local butcher with venison at £1 per pound, he would sell it for £8 per pound, so I now keep it for myself. Everyone local and independant I know drives a bigger car and owns a better house than me, so I owe them nothing, I owe it to my family and myself to provide what I can at the best price, that's a shame I know, but I can't afford to do anything else.
In wartime Stalingrad they ate horses and dogs and even at the end turned to eating the dead. Survival is a dirty business.
I agree sd I happily sold any excess rabbits to a local butcher for. Pound each not much but was a bit extra to go towards the dogs funds untill I found he was selling them for a fiver each!! Now I'm no mug my dogs worked hard to catch them and I wasn't letting them go lightly so now they stay in my freezer and get used as and when shame really but it's a cut throat world out there these days and gone are the days where folks are willing to help anyone out!
It might be an idea to put an advert onto gumtree offering them for sale "fresh whole rabbit meat for use as pet food or similar".
You never know, it might work.
Well if you were up here I would buy them, I feed my dogs a raw diet, but rabbit is a bit scarce around here
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