Of the two butchers in Nth Essendon, Florence leans more to the traditional Italian than the other…read more A big range or pastas & sauces, frozen fish, cheese, small-goods, and ofcourse lovely dry aged Victorian beef. In winter, its gets very busy because of the Italian pork season where everyone makes sausages at home. This is the time to get really cheap pork meat. Service is excellent. There is nothing these guys wont do for you. Prices are really good compared to major supermarkets, and the quality of the meat is twice as good.

This is a fantastic butcher in the North Essendon shopping area. The staff ae great, freindly and…read morehelpful; I was in there recenly seeking some gravy beef, and one of the butchers got a quarter of beef from the chiller and cut it up for me then and there@ Not as cheap as the market for meat, but the prices are good and the specials are great. They also sell briliant sausages, chops, fee range chooks and a range of other pantry items.

I'm now a regular at this store where I stock up on my favourite spices, dried fruit & nuts and…read moresavoury snacks. This store has all your grains, pasta, flour (every type including banana?!), legumes, teas, coffee, spices, herbs, energy/health "balls" and so much more. The Source stocks a great majority of Australian and Organic produce. It's mainly self-serve - except for the spices in large jars on the top shelf - which you can weigh on the scales provided and put in brown paper bags provided. Staff are super friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. And prices are very, very reasonable. Why would you purchase expensive, mainstream foods, when you can buy Fresh, Organic, Cheap and Bulk? See you next week The Source Bulk Foods for my stock up of Organic Coconut Flakes (soooo goood) and oils.

I have been growing to Frederick since I moved to Richmond about eight months ago. They have tons…read moreof healthy produce in products that will never make you feel guilty about eating them. On top of that they are huge supporters of local businesses and small businesses which have a special place in my heart and to be honest is the main reason why I keep going back to this place. The workers are also very genuine and I always have a lovely chat with them when I come in to buy something.

I love the Fruit Pedallers. It is a little bit like a little rabbit warren with lots of nooks and…read morecrannies to find yummy tidbits of organic produce. It can be hard to find exactly what you need if you are after something specific, as the shop is not laid out in a methodical manner, but for me this makes the shopping experience all the more enjoyable. Sometimes I think the staff at the Fruit Pedallers must think I'm a little fruity myself, when I spend hours browsing the shop only to come up to the counter with a bottle of milk and a cucumber, for example. Up until recently their fresh fruit and veg have been very very expensive. But with a recent change to their buying strategy, they have dropped prices significantly. Yay! Now we can all eat more organic food. Who knows I may even come up to the counter with a cucumber and a head of brocolli. They also have naturopaths on staff - where you can get some free advice (as long as you buy their awful tasting herbal mixtures of course) on your lingering cold etc.

The Fruit Pedallers is a ditty little health food shop on Westgarth's High Street selling all…read moremanner of organic whole foods alongside natural therapies such as naturopathy, homeopathy, massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, kinesiology, art therapy, acupuncture and more besides. In foodie slash health conscious Melbourne, where organic food stores are ostensibly a dime a dozen, The Fruit Pedallers is notable for its friendliness and excellent range of herbs and vitamins alongside fresh organic fruit and vegetables and a ruddy good selection of organic and fair trade chocolate. Its staff are helpful and extremely knowledgeable and although The Fruit Pedallers can be a little dearer than its competitors, this little Westgarth health food haunt is a local favourite, and with good reason. The Fruit Pedallers is a particularly good health food store to visit if you're in the market for vitamins or supplements and don't quite know what you're looking for. Excellent all round.

Raw Materials is a fantastic one stop shop for groceries of any kind for countless food lovers…read moreAustralia wide. This place is undoubtedly full flavored traditional food made the way it used to be. It sells the stuff that helps you think outside the square when cooking. Make all you culinary creations come true with a wide selection of the freshest and the most sort after dairy, seafood, condiments, sweets and new products which are constantly being outsourced from family owned and grown business. Raw materials distributes to many merchants but also allows you to shop online and create your own shopping adventure.

If you're into gourmet foodie items like wagyu salami and spanish olives, you need to know about…read moreRaw Materials. The bummer is that it's not generally open to the public. The trick is to get yourself on their mailing list and eagerly await notification of one of their open days. With tastings of everything, huge communal paella pans on the go and things like those olives available by the palette, it's my kind of happy. PS. They supply to Vue De Monde. Just saying.

When the recipe that I was planning to cook called for spicy pork sausages I knew where to buy…read morethem. I buy sausages here because they make a great variety of really excellent sausages of for all kinds of meats with all kinds of flavors. It is great to go to a BBQ with some distinctively flavored sausages, like chicken coconut curry, or some lean kangaroo meat sausages. The butchers have won some prizes for their sausages that they proudly declare on their window display. Aside from their sausages I've also bought some spare ribs for a pirate BBQ party that I had last year. It isn't a big shop and there are always a couple of people ahead of me when I go in but often it takes that time for me to make up my mind on seeing the selection of sausages.