I’ve yet to find a store-bought veggie burger (or any other pseudo-meat product) that doesn’t have one form or another of MSG – definitely better to eat only the homemade varieties. Same goes for condiments: it is amazing what they can hide under the listing of “natural flavors!”

Green Girl: Somehow, I suspected that’s what you do. We buy from a local butcher and there’s a local farm where we can buy in bulk, so I can get exactly the cuts I want.

Every year we buy a half cow through a local butcher. We know the farmer who supplies the cow. We even know the cow’s name (although I prefer not to). It’s not organic, but it’s reasonable at $2.00 a pound and cut & packaged to our specifications. Mr. D comes from an Iowa cornfield, it was transition enough not to serve potatoes with every meal, so we’ll eat meat from the safest, most reputable source around. (No jokes about hogs, please:))

If these are not stocked, I’d rather go without.