[Sca-cooks] Getting discounted foods - was: Menus

[Patrick Levesque]

Grocery warehouses are our friends!

There are a couple of major dairy farms in a reasonable distances - if I
need lots of cheese I can get it fairly cheap there. Luckily enough, there
are a few venison and fowl distributors around (deer and pheasant and other
birds), and one nuts wholesaler nearby. If I shop around I could get a good
deal on fish (but not as good as you'd get in Ruantallan :-)))


Petru



> We use all of those but still end up going to super markets for odd items.
> Taxes hmm not wanting to go there lol
> Da
>> 
>> My favourite shopping places start with food wholesalers (where the
>> restaurants shop). Since there are such good deals there I buy my personal
>> bulk stuff there as well. Since we don't buy bread, we go through a mess
>> of
>> flour. Getting it there is an ideal situation all round. I can also pick
>> up
>> any non-food items as well (pizza boxes for tarts, steamer trays,
>> containers and lids for sauces, etc). This stuff runs pretty cheap if you
>> buy it in bulk. And even though our Canton has a fairly extensive kitchen
>> inventory, these sorts of paper/foil products are good to have in the
>> inventory.
>> 
>> I also shop at grocery store wholesalers. For example, Loblaws (big
>> grocery
>> chain in Cda) has a central warehouse which distributes to the 10 or so
>> stores in our city. It is also open to the public. In most cases the
>> prices
>> aren't as good as at the restaurant wholesalers but they are better than
>> the grocery stores. I almost never shop at a grocery store for feasts.
>> 
>> I have noticed that it is also a good idea to be familiar with the farms
>> around you. You can get great deals on fresh meat/produce etc.
>> 
>> Taxes are different here in Cda and are mostly not talked about. lmao
>> 
>> Micaylah
>> 
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