Indigenous grown food to your area , is it cheaper
I was looking at prices of food and begin wondering, is food common to your area cheaper than other places where it is not ? I know like shrimp, oysters, crawfish seem to be reasonable priced here, but they are common to the southwest gulf area. Texas is known for it cattle, but I think the cost of raising them here is a high if not higher than say the Midwest because of the grass available, here it takes about 5 acres to raise a calf to market, I know like Northern Oklahoma it is less something like 1.5 acres per head. I wonder if lobster would be cheaper in Maine and Washington, because you walk down to the boats and buy them fresh that day ? It is like here it is a lot cheaper to go to the boats and pick up shrimp and red fish from them than to buy it in the stores. That when I wish I lived closer to the docks, but than I like where I live because I am close enough to drive but far enough that hurricanes some what are weaker by the time they get here. So do you find products that are grown in your area cheaper than others ? Like are Idaho potatoes cheaper in Idaho, is pork cheaper in Nebraska, is wine cheaper in California ? Cherries and apples are cheaper in Michigan than here in Texas. What is your take on this ?
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I know we can get produce at great prices during the summer. Although, just last week, I bought a HUGE head of red leaf lettuce for $1.29.
Even though most of our seafood comes from the Pacific Ocean, it isn't all that cheap. Halibut was selling at !9.99 a pound a couple of months ago. It wasn't halibut season, it was frozen, but wow, it was super delicious.
Wines are spendy, if you buy them from the wineries. However, if you go to Trader Joe's, Winco or Grocery Outlet, you can get great deals.
Well the halibut, it was $12.99 lbs here, that is from up in your area correct? I think I use to talk to a gentleman in the old IRC chat rooms, that fished off the northwest coast for them, seemed like that was his hobby or living perhaps.
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Yes, Pacific Northwest. When it's in 'season' it costs a bit less, but good halibut is worth the price no matter what it cost. Plus, you really don't need much of it. Very rich and delicious.
Since the sea island I live on (Edisto) and a couple of the neighboring islands (Walmalaw and John's) are mainly seafood and farming islands, I find the $$ on local grown food stuffs are better than in the stores. Plus, I know that it's local, fresh, hasn't been trucked in from who knows where and I'm helping out my local farmers and fishermen. We also have a local butcher just over on the mainland that sells only locally butchered meats. Beside the usual chicken, pork and beef he also has goat, duck, oxtail, raccoon and gator. He makes some mighty good fresh pork sausage too!
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