Hello from Steve Green Foods,
Autumn is here, and we’ve been busy making our website easier to shop — and getting ready for the holidays.
What’s new online
Turkey pre-orders, now with sizes
Our Pastured RWA Turkey pre-order page now lets you choose Small, Medium, or Large. It’s $6.49/lb, with a $40 deposit at checkout and the balance payable upon pickup. If you know you want a turkey for the holidays, this is the easiest way to get your name on one early.
Fish and Seafood is now on the site
We’ve added a whole new Fish and Seafood section, including Atlantic Salmon, Lake Erie Pickerel and Perch, Newfoundland Wild Cod and Shrimp, Arctic Char, Atlantic Mussels, and Jumbo Newfoundland Lobster Tails. Perfect for a Friday night dinner that isn’t meat and potatoes.
Prepared Foods by Jade
Jade’s pies, soups, chilis, and bone broths are now all in one place on the website — including the $99 Prepared Foods Box, with four individual pies, chili, three soups, and bone broth. All items are subject to availability, and it’s a great one to keep in the freezer for busy autumn nights.
Summit Station milk, and local produce all year round
Our Summit Station milk lineup now has fresh photos on the site, and we’re carrying local produce all year round from Garant Greens.
Never too early for Christmas
It really is never too early to order your holiday meat. Turkeys, prime rib roasts, and all your holiday favourites go fast, and ordering early means you get the size you want — not what’s left. If you’re planning a Christmas dinner, now is the time to get your order in.
You can shop online at www.stevegreenfoods.com, call us at 519-915-1430, or stop by the shop at 1506 Wyandotte St E in Windsor. Delivery is available for a small fee, and pickup at the shop is free.
Food For Thought…Why Choose a Small Butcher and Grocery Store in your Neighbourhood!
There’s a reason the neighbourhood butcher shop has lasted this long. It’s not nostalgia — it’s that a small shop does a few things a big supermarket simply can’t, or won’t, do for you.
You get a butcher, not just a meat counter
In a small shop, the person behind the counter is usually the person who cut the meat that morning. Ask them what to cook tonight, how thick to cut a steak, what to do with a cheaper cut, or how many pounds you need for six people — and you’ll get a real answer, not a shrug.
Over time, that goes both ways. A good neighbourhood butcher learns how you like your steaks cut, that you always want the bones for stock, or that your family prefers a certain sausage. That kind of service doesn’t come in a plastic tray.
Cut to order, and buy exactly what you need
Need two pork chops, not a family pack of six? A roast trimmed a certain way? Bones for soup, fat for rendering, or a whole chicken broken down? A small shop can do that while you wait.
That matters for your wallet as well as your cooking. Buying exactly what you need means less food sitting in the freezer, less thrown out at the end of the week, and no paying for weight you didn’t want in the first place.
Fresher, and closer to the source
Small shops tend to work with smaller, more local suppliers — farms and fisheries they actually know — and turn their stock over quickly. That often means meat that was cut recently, not shipped a long way and sitting in a case for days.
It also means you can ask where something came from, and get an answer. Was that beef raised locally? Where’s the fish from this week? What’s in season right now? A neighbourhood shop should be able to tell you, because they ordered it themselves.
Your money stays in your neighbourhood
When you shop at a small local store, more of what you spend stays close to home. It pays local staff, supports local farms and suppliers, and keeps a shopfront open on your main street instead of another empty window.
That adds up. A neighbourhood with a good butcher, a good grocer, and a few other independent shops is a nicer place to live — and it’s the kind of place people want to keep living in. Shopping there is one of the simplest ways to help keep it that way.
Special orders and holidays, handled properly
Holiday dinners are where a small shop really earns its keep. Turkeys ordered to size, a prime rib roast for Christmas, a special cut for a family recipe, a large order for a gathering — these are things a neighbourhood butcher plans for, not things you hope are still in stock on the day.
Order early, tell them how many people you’re feeding, and let them help you get the size right. That’s a much calmer way to do Christmas dinner than circling a supermarket aisle.
It’s also just a better way to shop
A small shop is quicker to get around, easier to ask a question in, and a lot more pleasant than a weekly big-shop slog. You pop in for what you need, you talk to someone who knows food, and you leave with dinner sorted — often with an idea you didn’t walk in with.
If you haven’t used your neighbourhood butcher shop in a while, try this: go in with one question. Ask what’s good this week, or what they’d cook tonight. You’ll probably leave with something better than what was on your list — and a reason to come back next week.
Thanks for shopping local, and we’ll see you soon.
Steve & Team
Steve Green Foods