food prices
Posted by: shorty
2nd Jul 2011 10:45am
isn't food too expensive what are they trying to do starve the world
Kris
- 19th Sep 2011 08:23am
Kaz,
I guess that puts things in perspective a bit, as much as we have a budget with no room to move (particularly due to paying for tertiary education) we have large expenses in the grocery department on one hand due to living in a very expensive city, but also because we try and buy Australian made and owned where possible. When it comes to fresh fruit and veges (buy using fruit and veg mystery box principle that many businesses are now using) and meat this means we get things a lot cheaper, but when it comes to staples we struggle to support Australian business, tending to buy the home brands (taste the same! - but not always Australian products).
I try to donate clothes and household products wherever I can.
The one tip to all to beat the expensive meat prices is if you can get a deep freeze (check the classifieds) and (save up as we do) buy the meat from the farmer, or a butcher who does whole (butchered) beasts, if its too much meat for you, get some friends in too, and share a beast. We were amazed at the pork we recently bought direct from a farmer turning out to be $3.50 a kilo, and the farmer got more in the hand then if he was to sell the pigs to the supermarkets etc.
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