Support Your Local Market + Save (Bargains with a Heart)

KittyKate

I know some people don't get a chance to but where you can, please buy your fruit, veg and meat from your local market or farmer's market. It's cheaper, fresher and tastier.

For example, my brilliant local market (Leeds City Market) has a very competitive meat section where 5-10 butchers compete not only for the best prices but the best quality. Lean mince is 99p per pound and better than anything (including organic) I've purchased from any supermarket.

Two of the most succulent and big sirloin steaks came to £4 (same would have been around £6-8 in Morrisons/Tescos)

15 gorgeous satsumas £1, 2 ripe pineapples £1, two punnets of strawberries £1. At these prices no wonder I'm fairly healthy lol!

It's cheap, it's not treated with mad things to make it last a month, it's full of flavour and it supports our local farmers and the market workers. Don't let your market shrink by processed, expensive, heartless veggies!!

dazco

I would love to. Today I have been celebrating my 1st saturday off for about 4 years. Not including holidays usually taken abroad.

I loved walking round the markets and bought loads. Why can they not close on a rubbish day (tuesday perhaps) and open on a Sunday.

The amount of people who do their shopping on a Sunday is immense.

I see farmers markets advertised on Saturdays and hate the fact that I cannot go and get some proper good quality produce.

On the flip side, I occasionally go to Skipton on a Sunday and have noticed loads of times an award winning pork pie shop that closes on Sunday. I love pork pies and today being a Saturday I found them open with a big queue of people buying pork pies.
Anyway they were rubbish.

And I went to my ( old ) favorite sausage shop in Clitheroe, came home, cooked em up and they are not as nice as my local Booths supermarket sausages. Which are great.

deanos

We get all our meat from the local butcher alot cheaper than the supermarkets and it comes from local animals and killed locally.

Fruit and Veg we get from the market when we can but time and work often means we cant.

lynzpower

Dunno where you lot are, but I have not found my local market any cheaper than tescos unfortunately. Id love to support my local trader, but 5lbs of potatoes at my local the other day was £2, and when I got them home, half rotten.

Walthamstow market is good though in my opinon for fruit & veg.

be careful not to buy meat that is not refridgerated- my local market has bacon and pork steaks out al day without fridging.

Liverbird

KittyKate wrote:

I know some people don't get a chance to but where you can, please buy your fruit, veg and meat from your local market or farmer's market. It's cheaper, fresher and tastier.

For example, my brilliant local market (Leeds City Market) has a very competitive meat section where 5-10 butchers compete not only for the best prices but the best quality. Lean mince is 99p per pound and better than anything (including organic) I've purchased from any supermarket.

Two of the most succulent and big sirloin steaks came to £4 (same would have been around £6-8 in Morrisons/Tescos)

15 gorgeous satsumas £1, 2 ripe pineapples £1, two punnets of strawberries £1. At these prices no wonder I'm fairly healthy lol!

It's cheap, it's not treated with mad things to make it last a month, it's full of flavour and it supports our local farmers and the market workers. Don't let your market shrink by processed, expensive, heartless veggies!!

I have to agree that Leeds market is brilliant for fresh fruit and veg and also meat. We have a day out there every now and again and always take a freezer box to stock up on the great meat bargains. We also love the little sweet shop that sells all the old fashioned sweets!

nuttywoman

Well our market fruit, veg etc is 2nd class rubbish, i get mine from Aldi, they support local growers when they can.
val

Gillby1

I think it's the luck of the draw with farmers markets - depends where you live. I've found the veg stall at Chelmsford's daily market to be really cheap, but the quality of the veg is not always great. However, the fruit is usually pretty good.