Hi all, for those who don't shop at the big supermarkets and will spend more (as long as it's a fair price) for good quality groceries, where do you usually shop for meats, vegetables and fruits??
For meats I've been buying from Emporium Meats, Haverick Meats.
For vegetables and fruit, there is a place next door to Coles in Zetland, but that is all I know.
For seafood, Sydney Fish Market.
Please, let know places worth paying a visit.
Thank you very much
How do the non-rubbish tasting produce taste like? What do you think causes the difference?
@ihbh the non-rubbish goods taste like heaven, and nope, I'm not being dramatic haha
Fruits here lack their natural sugar, partially or complete lack of flavour, weird texture.
Supermarket fruits feels like I ate a rock, the fruit place at Zetland, is the closest natural-natural mango I've ever tried, no joking. I ate them like a kid.
What do you think causes the difference?
Probably some combination of:
- picked too green
- stored too long
- stored/transported too hot/cold/wet/dry
- grown in suboptimal conditions
Fruit etc is produced to look like the target fruit and last as long as possible in and out of storage.The only time taste is a factor is at the start of the process to breed it etc. That episode the fruit even gets to natural tree ripened stage, aka the optimum point on all scores.After that you get a virtual 3d printed tasteless dry boring meh piece of semi nutritious worm farm fodder.
There are so many varieties of food & veg, and yet each year more designer food is churned out. We don't need 36 varieties on every species and yet every year, more crap gets rolled out.Overpopulation causes downstream issues like this.Those ag and hort scientists have to justify their existence somehow.
wasting money at Aldi/Woolies/Coles on fruit that tastes rubbish
This!
I can just imagine how awesome things taste in QLD. Where I'm originally from, is similar climate, mango here taste nothing but plastic.
People wouldn't believe me that what they are eating isn't fruit, what a real mango taste like, what a real watermelon taste like. Mandarin ?? Oh boyy :(
Over a decade here, I hardly ever eat fruit because it's just plastic, artificial crappy.
I'm trying to improve things, but first I need to find real places.
Thank you so much for sharing that, I'll have a look :)
Thailand and Vietnam have the best mangoes.
Thank you
I’ve been getting my meat from OurCow for about a year and I really enjoy it. The meat is much better quality, they change their range a lot and they have monthly specials so I’ve loved trying new things. They also do seafood and sauces and pies etc. It gets delivered to my door and it comes straight from the farmers.
If you did want to check them out swing me a message and I’ll refer you, we both get $50 off the order which is pretty decent (I checked OzB referrals and it wasn’t on there hence in my comment, sorry admins)
As for fruit and veg, there are quite a few similar things I’ve seen where you get the stuff “that supermarkets won’t take” because they’re weird shaped or marked or something. Haven’t done it yet but I think I’ll look into that soon.
Nitrate Free bacon
They are sweet, I sort of stopped eating bacon and ham because of nitrate.
Bacon/ham are pink-ish at the supermarket because of the nitrite. Their real color is dark like meat.
OurCow bacon at least based on the pictures, you wouldn't tell they are bacon but meat due to the darker colour.
Their Carnivore Box is awesome, feel free to DM me with your refer code.
I’ve seen where you get the stuff “that supermarkets won’t take” because they’re weird shaped or marked or something. Haven’t done it yet but I think I’ll look into that soon.
I once heard about it, I don't mind at all.
Thanks for mentioning it, I'll try to find something about it.
Yeah I’ve eaten the bacon before and it’s good!
I’ve DM’d you the code!
They have a “free item for life” promotion too where you get a free meat selection every order for the life of your subscription. At the moment I’m getting 2 portions of salmon free each box which is pretty sweet.
As for fruit and veg, there are quite a few similar things I’ve seen where you get the stuff “that supermarkets won’t take” because they’re weird shaped or marked or something. Haven’t done it yet but I think I’ll look into that soon.
That whole wonky vegetable thing is a bit rubbish, vegetables that supermarkets won't take goes into prepared and frozen foods. Not buying the supermarket quality stuff actually just hurts the farmers, because they get paid less for the weirder looking stuff and the companies reselling them are making bigger margins. It's marketed as a feel good thing, but it's just taking advantage of the difference pricing.
IMO the best way to go is to find where the distribution points and find a good fruit and veg store. In Melbourne a lot of the fruit and veg is distributed from a warehouse in Epping so around here there's a lot of really cheap places to get stuff. I usually spend about $20 a week and get a shopping bag full of fruits and veg, just buy in season and it's all really fresh.
A very good point, not something I’d considered. A lot of the marketing around it is “buy this so the farmers at least get something for it” but I understand your point.
A direct to consumer (like the OurCow I was talking about) would be ideal! I’ll definitely look out for something like that, unfortunately I’m not Syd or Melb based.
(Vic)
Buying meat from On-farm Butchers is the go. Many of them deliver too
I'd rather give the farmer the $ than colesworth and the quality is light years better than them too. Not that its hard to beat them.
YMMV
[QLD] Indooroopilly Fruit always has the best quality stuff and they slice up fruits so you can taste before buying. Prices are high but I'm sick of wasting money at Aldi/Woolies/Coles on fruit that tastes rubbish or half of it ends up thrown away. Inala markets are also very good and with better prices, added benefit of good banh mi while you're there.