Morning all. Apologies of there's an ongoing thread on this but I wondered if anyone has tips for buying food locally/ethically but also saving money.
At the moment, we buy our fruit and veg weekly through a box scheme with our community farm, this has increased by 5 pounds a week recently. We buy our meat from an ethical online supplier quarterly. I would estimate we eat meat 3 times a week. Not sure how their prices have changed as our last order was end of March and not due to order until end of this month. We use Fishbox monthly as it is hard time find sustainable varieties of fish in the shops near us (we live in greater London). This has gone up from 40 to 47 a month since we joined last year. We do the remainder of our shopping at Waitrose also for ethical reasons (employee pay/treatment, suppliers etc) We grow our own fruit and veg but this is a long term project so not currently seeing yields of fruit from our trees etc that means we can really cut down on shop bought. Veg is going ok but this is the first year we've really had the space to grow year round so not much for harvesting just yet.
All meals are home cooked and we have very little food waste.
Any tips, suggestions or supplier recommendations to save money and still eat locally/sustainably?
Thanks.