I know this sounds like a really stupid question, but where do you get butchers paper? Do butchers really sell it to members of the public, or do you have to buy it from somewhere special?

Well I would be brave enough to ask my butcher, but if you aren't when I last got it I got it from a removalist who advertised in the local paper that they sold moving boxes, the boxes were about $4 each many years ago, but they also sold butcher paper.  The other place I would try is storage places, I saw a billboard the other day out the front of one of those big storage places to say they sold boxes, usually boxes and butchers paper goes together. 

The final place you might look is at one of those craft warehouses, but I would try the above first.  You might even ask your local fish and chip shop.

Good luck, but I got mine from a removalist and you buy it by the reem or half a reem, I don't remember the cost, but the leftovers make great drawing paper.

Jodi