Thanks Robert. It's a great way of putting it normalising the higher price.I might steal that description. It is perfect.

Is it time for us to start growing our own and doing neighbourly trading? Making our own is an option.

I've also started to wonder abut meat quality. Either I am becoming a very bad cook, or there is something dodgy about where they are sourcing their meat. I could so easily become vegetarian.

I've started looking around at the small business people.