Questions about recipe cards (Graphic Design Student)

Akenyon03

Thank you all so much for your replies! Some really interesting points have been made! Keep them coming please!

bunny_too

Hi Akenyon03, Great idea. Yes i would pay 10p and love a local recipe. I'm in Northern Ireland and i did like the sb ones, and used them. Even the not so local recipes. All very yum yum. Is your study covering N.I?

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Yes I think it would be an excellent idea ,although for a lot of people coping with rising food prices the idea of paying for them might end up with the supermarket still having them by the tills, and few folk buying them
I live in Kent, and prefer to buy as locally as possible .My local butcher is a rare breeds one and his meat is excellent although dearer than Mr T's or Sainsbobs.
Saying that I have found Sainsbobs meat to be very good, and well worth the extra cost.
Tesco's I am not too sure about it always looks far too red,maybe its the lighting, or maybe its my ancient eyes:)
But the concept of local recipes is a good one and I would hope help our struggling farmers. I use my local farm shop, as well as Aldi's, and now and again when I go to visit my sis-in-law in Faversham I use the terrific Macknade one, which is fantastic for buying unusual and normally unobtainable stuff in Kent .It saves traipsing up to London to search in Harrods Food Hall.
Great idea and I wish you well in your project.Budget recipes would be of great help to people on limited income, also recipes which use up left over food would be good as well. I use up virtually all my food, but then I was brought up with rationing and it was second nature not to waste stuff.
Good Luck anyhow:beer:

Akenyon03

bunny_too wrote: »

Hi Akenyon03, Great idea. Yes i would pay 10p and love a local recipe. I'm in Northern Ireland and i did like the sb ones, and used them. Even the not so local recipes. All very yum yum. Is your study covering N.I?

Thank you very much for your reply, currently my study isnt over any particular area, i am just gathering as much information as i can.

JackieO wrote: »

Yes I think it would be an excellent idea ,although for a lot of people coping with rising food prices the idea of paying for them might end up with the supermarket still having them by the tills, and few folk buying them
I live in Kent, and prefer to buy as locally as possible .My local butcher is a rare breeds one and his meat is excellent although dearer than Mr T's or Sainsbobs.
Saying that I have found Sainsbobs meat to be very good, and well worth the extra cost.
Tesco's I am not too sure about it always looks far too red,maybe its the lighting, or maybe its my ancient eyes:)
But the concept of local recipes is a good one and I would hope help our struggling farmers. I use my local farm shop, as well as Aldi's, and now and again when I go to visit my sis-in-law in Faversham I use the terrific Macknade one, which is fantastic for buying unusual and normally unobtainable stuff in Kent .It saves traipsing up to London to search in Harrods Food Hall.
Great idea and I wish you well in your project.Budget recipes would be of great help to people on limited income, also recipes which use up left over food would be good as well. I use up virtually all my food, but then I was brought up with rationing and it was second nature not to waste stuff.
Good Luck anyhow:beer:

Thank you very much for your reply, Im starting to really like the idea of Local produce being used to create Traditional Local dishes. I just read about a competition Brian Turner is running to bring back grannies' recipes, and it would appear that the youth of today are far more in favor of Italian and Chinese food.

CCP

Hello Alex

Molly41 wrote: »

Our local supermarket (waitrose) does this to a limited effect. They have suggestions for using locally sourced produce although local is a funny term as its not that local more regional

The Waitrose just off Palmerston Road in Southsea used to do these cards - I don't know if they still do, but it might be worth a visit if you're over that way at any point. They tended to be about seasonal produce, rather than local produce, so they're not exactly the same as what you're doing, but they might give you a few ideas of what's already been done.

On the subject of local recipes, there was a recent Hairy Bikers television series on exactly this subject - I think there was an associated website (or a section of the BBC website) so that might be useful if you get stuck for ideas?

In answer to your original questions:

I would certainly be interested in picking up the cards, but I probably wouldn't buy the required items from the supermarket - very few supermarkets round here sell local produce and I would rather go to the farmer's market or an independent shop anway - I don't think supermarkets pay suppliers anywhere near enough even when they do sell their stuff, and I'd rather make sure the producer got a decent amount of what I was paying.

I wouldn't be prepared to pay for the card, either - as several other people have said, supermarkets make enough profit that they should be paying for them, not the customer.

I like your idea of promoting traditional recipes - I'm not a Hampshire native (a lot of Portsmouth inhabitants aren't, I think! ) and I would be very interested to know more about the traditional recipes from this area.

Hope that's helpful!

Akenyon03

CCP wrote: »

Hello Alex



The Waitrose just off Palmerston Road in Southsea used to do these cards - I don't know if they still do, but it might be worth a visit if you're over that way at any point. They tended to be about seasonal produce, rather than local produce, so they're not exactly the same as what you're doing, but they might give you a few ideas of what's already been done.

On the subject of local recipes, there was a recent Hairy Bikers television series on exactly this subject - I think there was an associated website (or a section of the BBC website) so that might be useful if you get stuck for ideas?

In answer to your original questions:

I would certainly be interested in picking up the cards, but I probably wouldn't buy the required items from the supermarket - very few supermarkets round here sell local produce and I would rather go to the farmer's market or an independent shop anway - I don't think supermarkets pay suppliers anywhere near enough even when they do sell their stuff, and I'd rather make sure the produce got a decent amount of what I was paying.

I wouldn't be prepared to pay for the card, either - as several other people have said, supermarkets make enough profit that they should be paying for them, not the customer.

I like your idea of promoting traditional recipes - I'm not a Hampshire native (a lot of Portsmouth inhabitants aren't, I think! ) and I would be very interested to know more about the traditional recipes from this area.

Hope that's helpful!

Woohooo a semilocal like myself!
Thanks for that advice on waitrose, i was looking to see where it actually was yesterday because iv never been to it, and i dont know my way around portsmouth to well. Im from weston super mare myself.

hampshires local produce is apparently Watercress, i need to do abit more research into the local dishes but id assume it would involve that in some way.


Iv decided as part of the project that i am going to cook the recipes i find, i love cooking and i have to test what im advertising right ?

SunnyGirl

Hi Alex

Yes I would use a recipe card to make regional dishes if I saw one. I have come across booklets, usually produced by churches for fetes etc, that have some regional recipes in I use them.

I wouldn't pay for a simple card though as the farmer would surely benefit from increased sales? Maybe if the card was stuck onto the packet of say sausages (wrapped obviously!) then the price could be increased by 10p to cover the cost.

I live in Lancashire, although I'm not a native, and the most famous things that I can think of are Lancashire Hotpot, Lancashire cheese, Bury Black Puddings and ............. actually thats all I can think of which is a shame and slightly embarassing

Good luck with the brief although the cooking bit of it sounds like lots of fun

Edited to add: I've just googled traditional Lancashire food and the result was fairly disappointing here There must be some good fish recipes as we have a good coastline? If there are any native Lancastrians reading I'd love to know more about the food of my adopted county.

Akenyon03

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Hi Alex

Yes I would use a recipe card to make regional dishes if I saw one. I have come across booklets, usually produced by churches for fetes etc, that have some regional recipes in I use them.

I wouldn't pay for a simple card though as the farmer would surely benefit from increased sales? Maybe if the card was stuck onto the packet of say sausages (wrapped obviously!) then the price could be increased by 10p to cover the cost.

I live in Lancashire, although I'm not a native, and the most famous things that I can think of are Lancashire Hotpot, Lancashire cheese, Bury Black Puddings and ............. actually thats all I can think of which is a shame and slightly embarassing

Good luck with the brief although the cooking bit of it sounds like lots of fun

Edited to add: I've just googled traditional Lancashire food and the result was fairly disappointing here There must be some good fish recipes as we have a good coastline? If there are any native Lancastrians reading I'd love to know more about the food of my adopted county.

Thank you very much Sunny!

I completely agree with not paying for the Cards, I was thinking about it from a completely different angle but now i realise that obviously sales would increase (you'd hope) meaning more profit

Thanks for the Lancashire produce you listed! if i find any more dishes for your area i will let you know!

falady

Hi Alex,

Yes, i would like to see local recipe cards and more local produce in the supermarket. Tesco sells Yorkshire produce (I live in halifax, west yorkshire) and try to buy yorkshire potatoes, carrots etc rather than others.

I'd like to see local recipe cards rather than a national scheme because I like the idea of supporting local producers and the food not travelling too far and therefore hopefully fresher becfore it gets to be. While I didn't grow up in yorkshire, I'd still like to know some of the traditional recipes for the area.

I would consider paying 10p per card, but only if it went directly to local farmers.

As other psoters have said, i would be more interested in family recipes than dinner party recipes, and would want the recipes to based on cooking from scratch not using preprepared products.

As explaiend above, I'm living in Halifax, West Yorkshire. I'm not sure about local produce except for lamb from the dales and rhubarb.

As a bit of a caveat to all the comments above, i try to buy food from small local shops rather than the supermarket, particularly meat from the butchers an fish from the fishmongers. We also have a new greengrocers which i'm going to try. I don't manage this all the time - its when i have the time and plan well. Local shops have been providing the kind of service that supermarkets seem to be aspiring to for years.

Good luck with your asignment.

Ali

Akenyon03

falady wrote: »

Hi Alex,

Yes, i would like to see local recipe cards and more local produce in the supermarket. Tesco sells Yorkshire produce (I live in halifax, west yorkshire) and try to buy yorkshire potatoes, carrots etc rather than others.

I'd like to see local recipe cards rather than a national scheme because I like the idea of supporting local producers and the food not travelling too far and therefore hopefully fresher becfore it gets to be. While I didn't grow up in yorkshire, I'd still like to know some of the traditional recipes for the area.

I would consider paying 10p per card, but only if it went directly to local farmers.

As other psoters have said, i would be more interested in family recipes than dinner party recipes, and would want the recipes to based on cooking from scratch not using preprepared products.

As explaiend above, I'm living in Halifax, West Yorkshire. I'm not sure about local produce except for lamb from the dales and rhubarb.

As a bit of a caveat to all the comments above, i try to buy food from small local shops rather than the supermarket, particularly meat from the butchers an fish from the fishmongers. We also have a new greengrocers which i'm going to try. I don't manage this all the time - its when i have the time and plan well. Local shops have been providing the kind of service that supermarkets seem to be aspiring to for years.

Good luck with your asignment.

Ali

Thanks for the reply! Im glad that people seem to be liking the idea! If i find any local recipes to you i will let you know!