: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:53 pm  

Chadwicks is good quality but expensive.

There is a farmers market once a month held in Standish Community Centre

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:54 pm  

Cheers for the info. Shame that there isn't one in Wigan/Standish area though. You would think there would be.

I'll have a look on the link and try one out.

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:56 pm  

Charlie Seeling wrote:

Chadwicks is good quality but expensive.

There is a farmers market once a month held in Standish Community Centre

Do you know when?

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:59 pm  

Try England's in Pem, also a shop in Billinge

Meat from independent butchers is bound to cost more than the tasteless cack served up by the multinational faceless money generators like Tesco. Keep it local!!!

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:02 pm  

loobyfromorrell wrote:

Try England's in Pem, also a shop in Billinge

Meat from independent butchers is bound to cost more than the tasteless cack served up by the multinational faceless money generators like Tesco. Keep it local!!!

That's what i'm trying to do, but with working Mon-Fri in Manchester by the time i get home shops are closed.
That's why i thought somewhere in Wigan would have a farm shop to nip to on a Saturday morning. But looking at it, it's going to be a bit of a drive to get my veg.

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:05 pm  

loobyfromorrell wrote:

Try England's in Pem, also a shop in Billinge

Meat from independent butchers is bound to cost more than the tasteless cack served up by the multinational faceless money generators like Tesco. Keep it local!!!

Not only that word has it that they provide a quantity of meat for Chaddys in Standish.

Chaddys is overrated and expensive.

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:10 pm  

WIGAN NUT wrote:

That's what i'm trying to do, but with working Mon-Fri in Manchester by the time i get home shops are closed.
That's why i thought somewhere in Wigan would have a farm shop to nip to on a Saturday morning. But looking at it, it's going to be a bit of a drive to get my veg.

Nip to Pem on a Saturday morning. There's a veg shop across the road as well I think.

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:19 pm  

loobyfromorrell wrote:

Nip to Pem on a Saturday morning. There's a veg shop across the road as well I think.

Think the Veg shops near Halfway House. They always have "LOCAL GROWN PRODUCE" signs outside. Now how local that is i dont know, someone back garden in Kitt Green

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:29 pm  

If you absolutely have to buy meat from a supermarket, try to ensure it's from a meat counter where you can tell the butcher what you want. If getting it off a display shelf buy organic (for taste) and ensure you look at the meat under the main shop lights, not the undershelf lighting as, daft as it sounds, you can't see so well.

Remember, you can get rubbish from any place; go in to wherever, tell them they were recommended as they don't serve crap. Hopefully you'll then get something decent. All you have to do then is cook it without mullering it!

: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:06 pm  

Hogan Knows Best wrote:

Think the Veg shops near Halfway House. They always have "LOCAL GROWN PRODUCE" signs outside. Now how local that is i dont know, someone back garden in Kitt Green

Is that Bilko shpuds and shprouts Ltd?