£7 for four muffins!

[den_the_cat]

I was just mooching around the net avoiding doing a report I need to get done, clicked on an ad and ended up on what looks like a really nice 'online farmers market' website for france and the UK.

I won't bother to tell you the url though (unless some of you are very rich or stupid) because in tha patisserie section the organic banana walnut muffins are £7 for 4. Its not a typo, lots of stuff is equally expensive

I don't mind paying a premium for local, organic and delivered (that was based on my postcode aand it looks like availability varies with reegion) but there's premiums and premiums. Its not really surprising that people don't try to buy decent stuff when they get ripped off with prices like that. I was at a motorway service station yesterday and they were charging 45p for a banana. when its cheaper to buy a bar of chocolate than a bit of fruit there has to be something wwrong

[Chickpea]

I agree, Den. I bet the banana at the service station was black and soft as well. If it's any help i can give you a recipe for organic banana and walnt muffins. You could make several batches of 12 for £7

[Andy Hamilton]

I will sell you some virtual muffins for a fiver.

It does amaze me the prices that some of these places get away with. There are people selling nettles at an extorsionate price too, nettles I ask you. I also find it mad that people pay for stuff that is growing wild, stuff that most of us would easily recognise if we saw it growing like dandelions and blackberries.

Service stations are notoriously bad.

[den_the_cat]

thanks chickpea, a recipe would be great (now I've started thinking about them I'm feeling quite hungry) but its not just them, I'm getting really fed up with being charged outrageous prices for things which are, basically, cruddy quality.

I don't expect organic veg to look like it does in the supermarket nor keep as long but I don't expect busy organic farm shops to be charging twice supermarket prices for soggy veg fit only for the bin. I'm not at all surprised theres an entire generation (or two) of people who think organic food is nasty stuff on the whole, or who have never tried it because they cant afford it.

It does cost more to produce commercially and it doesnt last as long as preservative laden stuff but everyone who's ever grown a carrot knows how much nicer it tastes and it makes me mad that most of the UK population will never get the chance to find out because of the truly horrible way its presented and the horrible prices charged.

Its the same sense of dispair I get that most commercial veggie meals are brown, beige and more brown and look awful when its actually the vegetable ingrediants that liven up a 'normal' meal. When you have such good stuff to work with how can it be mucked up so horrible? People will never start appreciating any of this stuff and be willing to pay a bit more when its so poorly offered to them at the moment

[Hillbilly]

My current favourite rip-off is at a well known 'posh' farm store near me. £4 for a few garlic sprouts! (the green bit, not the bulb). All wrapped up posh like.