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• joe2091

  11 June 2008, 8:36PM

  joe2091

  British pig farmers are in need of support at the moment and I believe that this is not the right forward for the farmers.2p for a sausage. Somebody help mankind these days.

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• debbie

  12 June 2008, 2:05PM

  debbie

  I wouldnt feed those sausages to my dogs!!!. I make my own or buy from a quality, local butcher, who names the local farms where his meat has come from that week.

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• stevecol

  12 June 2008, 2:14PM

  stevecol

  Although I now support local butchers in my area, I can see how useful these sausages will be to people on a very tight budget. When I was a student, I used to buy 40 economy fishfingers for 20p, so I have no doubt that I would have bought these, too. If any students are reading this, chop up a pack of these sausages and caserole them with some value potatoes, value canned tomatoes and some paprika (to take away the taste of the sausages). That's four meals for around a pound.

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• igglepiggle

  13 June 2008, 11:45AM

  igglepiggle

  We use to spend 30% of our income on food now its about 9% we have got so use to cheap food that we`ve spent out on all the gadgets and gizmo`s available. Now food prices are rising we feel the pinch...We need to go back to producing lots more of our food in this country and pay a reasonable price for it...If our demand for cheap food continues we will be wholly reliant on imports then we can all watch the prices rise as we will be unable to do anything about it. I for one have a tight budget but would rather cut down on other things and still buy good local produce.

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• Holly

  13 June 2008, 5:36PM

  Holly

  People on low budgets shouldn't have to suffer sub-standard products. Manufacturers should be looking to cut costs and produce quality basics at a reasonable price. With weight issues in this country as they are I think the government needs to step in and address the problem. Low budget shouldn't equal poor food, but farmers and meat suppliers shouldn't have to loose income either.

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• Alison

  13 June 2008, 8:56PM

  Alison

  In our day and age, you get what you pay for. If we don't support our British and local farmers now we won't get any produce in the future. Buy British and we can keep our Farmers and save our heritage. More pressure needs to be put on the Supermarket giants for better labelling on Country of origin, food miles and eco footprints.

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• katyrouth

  14 June 2008, 10:11AM

  katyrouth

  Why don't people just eat less meat if shopping is getting too expensive? These sausages only contain 34% meat - but instead of buying them and suffering all the side effects pointed out above, why not just eat 1/3 of the high quality meat you would normally buy?

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• scrimshady

  14 June 2008, 7:11PM

  scrimshady

  i agree with alison, keep our food british, i aways buy local food, i spend a bit more but you get what you pay for and you get a better cut of neat and its a lot tastier aswell

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• Belit

  15 June 2008, 12:51PM

  Belit

  It's hardly surprising the visitors to GoodFood's website has the opinions about this subjects which are voiced above. The problem is most people don't give priority to quality food, to animal welfare, living countryside communities, low food mileage, environmentally responsible farming and shopping etc etc. I recently read an interview with River Cottage Hugh (can't ever get his last name right), who said - very realistically I believe - he really fears he mostly preaches to the already converted crowd. I have no idea how these attitudes can spread, but I find hope in the fact that some of the environmental scares of the 1980s and 1990s - acid rain and KFK gases - have largely been solved after massive public awareness campaigns.

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• chochotte

  16 June 2008, 4:42PM

  chochotte

  Better to not eat meat that evening than to eat poor quality food like this. Meat 3-4 times a week is quite enough nutrution-wise and vegetables are much cheaper!

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• rozmorgan

  17 June 2008, 8:11PM

  rozmorgan

  There are so many problems here that it would take a long time to deal with them but really plunging the British Pig farming community deeper into difficulties is what prices like this mean, if the meat in these sausages is from British farmers. I'm a student and we buy cheep things and only small amounts of meat, but when we buy it we buy British and RSPCA approved. Getting rid of packaging would bring down the price of a lot of food as would reducing how far it's travelled. Also, it's worth going to the butchers counter in supermarkets, you get a better quality of sausage we've found or trying cheaper cuts of meat like pork belly which we have instead of roast beef or chicken.

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• miniminx

  19 June 2008, 9:55AM

  miniminx

  The easiest way by far to afford good quality meat on a tight budget is to buy less of it. Who says that you have to eat meat every day to be healthy? Pulses can make a healthy, filling meal with for practically nothing. Any left-over shopping budget can go on good quality cheaper meat cuts. Or experiment with different types of meat: I bought two big joints of locally shot wild hare at the local farmer's market for about a pound each! Slow-cooked with tomatoes - delicious!

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• shirley

  25 November 2011, 10:37PM

  shirley

  I agree - Asda smart price fresh sausages are disgusting. I use the frozen variety which taste much better - around £1 for a pack of 20. Not fantastic, but with gravy or baked beans + mashed potatoes, good enough if you have next to no money left in your budget at the end of the month after paying extortionate prices for petrol, home fuels and taxes

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