Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

And at least I started buying free range butter when it occurred to me that cows deserved at least as much of my consideration as chickens do.

I find that FR chicken is worse than, say other reasonable quality chicken.

You just have to watch that your not paying for the "symbol" free range as the suppliers will take advantage if they can get away with it.

fc123

LydiaJ wrote: »

How do I identify enhanced welfare meat, milk etc? Just by looking for the words "free range"? Or is "enhanced welfare" a legally defined term that might be on some packaging? What about the sorts of packets that say something like "all our farmers follow our special code of practice"? Do those actually mean anything significant?

Feel vaguely bad that I've been buying free range butter for ages without actually thinking about what milk I buy. How inconsistent is that? Mind you, I buy a lot less milk than most people. And at least I started buying free range butter when it occurred to me that cows deserved at least as much of my consideration as chickens do.

I know the big corp supermarkets say they are all soooo welfare conscious but really the best way is to buy from your local farmers market.

My chicken man does a cow every 3 months and the whole thing is sold out on pre-orders. The mince is amazing and doesn't have that smell that supermarket mince has. Costs only a little more.

Milk is a tricky one (plus all the other products like the slabs of cheap cheese and butter) but our farmers market sells the unpasteurised stuff and we really tried to like it but I confess, I went back to supermarket organic by the 4 pint.

It seems more expensive but a chicken from him gives us twice the meat as a supermarket organic/free range one and only costs a couple of £ more....tastes way better too.

sss555s

You put it better FC

Hope your plan is still working out :beer:

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

Well my stinging nettle crop is coming on a treat:(.

I have bought a hoe and a long handled weeding tool in the vain hope I can get out into the garden Sunday. We have a morning with no rain forecast. Fingers, toes, arms, legs, all crossed. Makes typing pretty hard.

I'm working tomorrow, which probably means the sun will come a day early:(:(.

Ho hum, I'm starting to sound like Eeyore:(:(:(.

Sorry about your neighbours' crops lir. I am so glad I am not a farmer.

On a different matter, does anyone know if I buy Moo milk whether more goes to the farmers?

Is moo milk the Liz Jones venture (I think it launched in Selfridges last year)?

The very enterprising green leaf man (who sells the salad) at our farmers market makes me laugh as he sells amazing stuff (like mustard leaves, sorrel and other easy to grow but supermarket ignored leaves) but he also sells nettles. All laid out with a recipe for soup and people actually buy them ...I think he charges about £3 per bag.
Amazing and always makes me smile when I see a certain type of well to do posh suburban londoner buy a bag of nettles from him.

sss555s

fc123 wrote: »

I... and always makes me smile when I see a certain type of well to do posh suburban londoner buy a bag of nettles from him.

I'm sure a few of us would supply him with "good quality" product for free :rotfl:

fc123

sss555s wrote: »

You put it better FC

Hope your plan is still working out :beer:

What did I put better?

Which plan is that? I keep making fresh ones on a weekly basis....to be honest I getting mighty twitchy at the moment.

Desp to get my teeth into something new.......stuff we are doing at the mo has become humdrum but stressy too. Nasty combo.

I confess I have been searching for shops (but this time leased in a ltd company) as I miss being a bricks and mortar indie retailer. We did it for over 20 years and the past 3 years has enhanced all the other skills we never knew we had so my late night brain has been whirring and putting all the new skills together with the old ones (minus the errors) and do another store (different to before) for the next decade.

I really miss buying too, choosing all diff labels + looks as well as doing our own. Creating a mega window display and watching peple look in and point and say ''oooh that's nice' and so on.


We have almost maxed out the initial look we created and the export is amazing (which we will run until it slows naturally ) but it's time to move on too and I have all these diff things I want to create.....but it means new label, new ID, new customer base, starting over again rreally(creatively).....nothing new, every 4 years we change generally.

The label we are known for will evolve into swimwear/seperates/ kind of chi chi resort. Feeling a bit Russian visitor in Ibiza.

Hows you all the s's and 5's ?

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

They don't seem to have spent very much time on trains.

They visited museums on their travels, that quite impressed me.

I always though interrailing was meant to be cheap.

Cheap? I wish. When I was at uni in the 70s an interrail ticket cost as much as a term's halls of residence fees. I was a big-time armchair traveller but like most students I knew cheap holidays in campsites on the med was the main type of holiday we could afford.

Things were starting to change, though. Freddie Laker's Skytrain was bringing transatlantic travel down to a few hundred quid and our medical school started getting American students coming over on TWA's £97 Jetsave tickets, and yes, even then, that was ridiculously cheap!

fc123

sss555s wrote: »

I'm sure a few of us would supply him with "good quality" product for free :rotfl:

The temptation to put all mine into a sack and see what he'll offer is tempting and I can't believe other customers haven't thought the same....but I wouldn't dare.:)

He sells little twee packets of nasturtian flowers (you get 4 in a pack) and they aren't cheap either.

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

You are allowed to "hoe" in the rain viva!




I wouldn't mind buying FT (bananas) if they weren't so cwap

Welcome back allthesss! Are you excited/underwhelmed about the olympics?

Regarding the recent discussion of peas, I ate them with mustard for the first time today and wondered why I'd never tried such a delicious combo before.:D


As regards these food prices and animal welfare, wish I could include anything more than cost in my decisions.

fc123

off to bed. nit nite We are away tomo for 2 days sneaking off for some spa time. I bought a coupon last time to return half price and we only have 2 weeks left to use it.
It's the last luxury spending we are doing now for a while (well apart from next W/E as I have to decide whether to book into something nice for there as well).

Is Hamish drunk yet?