We get lamb cheap here. My brother has a sheep station, and once a year he will slaughter a bunch of lambs for meat. We just put in our order - anything from half a lamb upwards, and it comes back to us as sausages, racks, roasts and chops. He charges us for the slaughter and processing costs, and a small fee for the meat itself. We pay about AU$100 for the whole lamb cut up. I must say the flavour is so much better compared to the lamb you get in the shops. The price is better too! We are paying AU$30 a kg for lamb in the supermarket, lol.
I think it's amazing how different home grown and store bought can be, in all things really. Example - I have been diagnosed as having an allergy to dairy. If I drink processed milk, I crap blood (sorry, I know that's crass, but it's the truth!) But the raw milk from our dairy, well, I can use that in my cooking and be just fine. Eggs are another one. I used to feel really nauseous after eating store bought eggs, but I can eat 2 a day from my girls and I'm fine. Fruit and vegetables, I presume the shops keep them in deep freeze for a century or so, because they have no taste to speak of. We all know how good home grown fruit and veg are though! I grow what I can and when that runs low hubby and I head off to the local farmer's, market and buy direct from the grower. So much better than the shops!
- Krista
