This week’s owner coupon is 20 percent off all sausage, including frozen, fresh, and plant-based options. Learn more about the coupon below.
Whether you prefer plant-based sausage or a meatier option, we have a sausage for you. We’ll have samples in stores this weekend (times below).
Plant-Based Sausages
You may have seen Beyond Meat in the news recently. The relatively new company believes “the best way to get people to eat less meat is by giving them what they love–in this case, a juicy delicious sausage–without so many of the health, sustainability, and animal welfare downside of a traditional animal-based sausage.” Their 100% plant-based products are GMO, soy, and gluten free, and contain pea, fava, and rice proteins. They come in original brat and hot Italian flavors. And they sizzle like meat-based sausage! Read more: https://www.beyondmeat.com/about/
Those looking for a less meat-like experience can stock up on one of these favorites for breakfast casseroles, pasta dishes, and sausage skillets:
- No Evil Foods The Stallion: an Italian veggie sausage made in Asheville from beans, wheat berries, yeast, and organic herbs and spices.
- Tofurky sweet Italian sausage
- Gimme Lean veggie protein, ground sausage style: soy-based, great for slicing into sausage patties or molding into “meatballs” for pasta
- Field Roast sausages: grain-based, in Italian, Mexican chipotle, and apple sage flavors
Firsthand Foods
We carry a variety of local sausages brought to us by Firsthand Foods, a food aggregator based in Durham. Firsthand sources meat from a network of farmers who raise their animals humanely, on pasture, without using sub-therapeutic antibiotics, added hormones, or animal by-products. Firsthand connects these sustainable meat producers with the markets, like Weaver Street, who want to sell their goods. They take care of the steps needed to get a consistent selection of quality meat. Learn more: https://firsthandfoods.com/
Firsthand buys pork, beef, and lamb from about fifty North Carolina farmers. We have both pork sausages in a variety of flavors and Merguez lamb sausages. Sausage cooking tips are available on Firsthand’s website, and you can follow the links to sausage recipes: https://firsthandfoods.com/2018/07/02/sausage-cooking-tips/
In-Store Demos
Look for our demo team with samples of both meat and plant-based sausages in stores:
- Hillsborough store, Thursday August 8, 4 to 7 PM
- Carrboro and Southern Village stores, Saturday August 10, 11 AM to 2 PM
This week’s owner coupon is 20 percent off all sausage, including frozen, fresh, and plant-based options, good August 7-14, 2019. Owners, look for the coupon in our weekly e-news, sent on Wednesday morning. If you didn’t get the coupon, you may need to update your email address in our owner database. Contact us at ownershares@weaverstreetmarket.coop.
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