The exercise I am about to write about was the main inspiration for this site. After a comment on a friends upload on Facebook, I got thinking about “is it really more expensive to buy from a farmers market than a supermarket?”.
The comment wasn’t directly saying that, but the gist of it was “it’s alright to be picky if you have money. Try shopping when your'e on benefits”. This is not the first time I have seen such comments, the BBC Have your say is always full of these sorts of comments. People assume because there is a small amount produced by a smaller farm that it must be more expensive. (There are those people who are just food snobs and love nothing more than to show off at how they can afford to shop at these markets.) HYS can be amusing at times, with these extreem views from either side.
So back to the point, which was, I honestly didn’t know if buying veg from the market was more expensive than at supermarket and wanted to find out.
My first attempt proved very interesting.
