I forgot that prices vary from server to server. For me, meat is 1g max to buy, and tons for sale. northern spices sell for 3-5g each and there are usually very few for sale - they get bought out quick.

Each daily requires 4 meats and gives you avg 15 northern spices (when you sell the cooking award). Plus they give you 10g to complete the quest.

I have a ton of raw meat in my bank so I never need to buy them, but like I said, on my server it's only 1g each meat, which is 20g total for all my guys. So it's still a ton of money doing the quests - 300g+ net for maybe 10-15 mins of work, so that's a nice 2K a week of easy money. But, if you have a slow computer, it's a pain to run around Dalaran to get the items for the quests. My computer doesn't have a problem so it's easy mode, you gather 4 carrots or mushrooms from arround the city for each guy, and they respawn reall quick so it's a breezy.

As far as fishing, do you fish on your guys all at the same time, or one at a time? I haven't messed around with this much, so I 'm not sure how to handle it.