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Stop for an Illy coffee while we prepare your butchery order. G’café is open from eight serving breakfast and lunch.

I started from scratch and this is not as easy as it could be. Simple questions turn out to be not as simple as one first assumes.

Bookers are a good place to start. They carry a large range of products but prices  are competitive rather than wholesale. I can get snack bars in smaller quantities and a better price at Tesco. But it is convenient.

I can’t remember what the requirements are to qualify for a buying card. But they are not too onerous.

If not Bookers, the only other option being the internet. To search for suppliers of speciality foods or purchase directly. What is mussing is a how to, who does guide.

Licensed Trade Suppliers Harry Morgan licensedtrade.net

 

May 22 2021

Home Cooked meals made by River Cuisine. Helga uses the freshest top quality ingredients and all meals are made on they day. Tasty, nutritious and generously portioned. Prices range from R40 – R45 per meal for a very generous portion. She also offers kiddies portions at R25 – R30 per meal. Meals can be collected or delivered to you depending on your area.

Olive twist

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Who collects used cooking oil?

A learning curve or obstacle course, I am not sure which.

I started at Bookers in Chichester not having the fainest idea about what sells and what does not. So I picked out half a dozen random boxes of chocolate bars being twenty four of this and thirty six of that.

But the one thing they all had in common was that they come with a recommended retail price at sixty pence each and very slim margins

Didn’t fare much better when it came to the potato crisps either. Three boxes of Walkers grab bags pre-priced at a pound each with a best by date that comes around all too quickly for a small cafe . I also opted for Kettle chips. A box each  for Salted, Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion. Smaller packets but the same pricing constraints.

Then just to add salt to the wounds I figure out that I can by those snack bars in smaller quantities at the Tesco Extra and slightly cheaper. I guess the way the market has developed the lines between wholesale, suppliers, distributors and retail outlets has blurred.

Next are the individually wrapped and packed snack bars. All butter flapjacks, shortbread fingers, tiffins and rocky roads. As well as hermatically sealed and sanitised soft cookies, cup cakes , muffins, carrot cake, cherry and almond slice and a rich. Belgian chocolate cake.

All most convenient but I am convinced that they glow when one turns the light out and I miss what should be homecooked and local.

We are spolit by a better selection of fresh vegetables from Thai & Asian Supermarket in Portsmouth, than we used to get at the village market in Nong Prue. I just close my eyes during our weekly shop and try not to think about things like carbon footprint or the cost of living crisis

It might be crazy, it’s not cheap but it makes all the difference.

I understand the produce is flown into Bournemouth before being distributed to the various retail outlets.