meat from butchers V supermarket

mhoc

I can recommend Clewlows in Nantwich, a good old fashioned family butchers, Nantwich also has a farmers market every month

Mary

Mind you that might be because my son started his Saturday job there this week, he might not be quite beefcake yet but he will be eventually!:rotfl:

soba

Local butchers every time, but when your DH and FIL are both ex-butchers I would say that eh?

finc

rchrisp wrote:

where are you exactly? we use Littlewoods in Heaton Chapel (just off the A6); Andy and his sons make all their own sausages (25 varieties), they have products designed for the Slimming World diet, the least fattiest mince in Manchester (actually clinically proven), etc. We're looking at buying out Rochdale way and we'll still be going to Littlewoods.

Thanks, it's not too near me but is near my friend's house so I can stock up when I visit her! thanks for the tip.

Gryfon

Which of the following do you do?

a) Buy cheap meat/poultry from the supermarket.

b) Buy free range/organic meat/poultry from the supermarket.

c) Buy from a butcher?

I'm trying to decide whether I'd be better off getting free range/organic meat and just not eating so much. Though I'm thinking I'd be better off just not thinking about where the meat comes from and get the cheap stuff!

We don't eat much anyway and usually it's all chicken, mince or stewing steak. The only time we have others is when they're reduced :rotfl:

squeaky

Hi Gryfon

We have a long running discussion on this, so I've added your query to it.

Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

bobsa1

I use a butcher now for all my meat. He's very old fashioned, greets me with morning Mrs H, saves nice bits for me and I tell him what I want to cook and he gets me the meat.

A couple of weeks ago I'd ordered some meat and by mistake it had been given to someone else.

The lovely man gave me my meat for the week! to say sorry.

Butcher for me every time.

Gryfon

squeaky wrote:

Hi Gryfon

We have a long running discussion on this, so I've added your query to it.

Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

I thought I'd gone mad then as I couldn't find it :rotfl:

Thanks shall have a read!

HappyIdiotTalk

mercurystar999 wrote:

I know that Morrisons have fully trained butchers as my best mate works for them! They actually cut all the meat that you get on the shelves instore.

I think I can confirm this. I bought some lamb at Morrisons last year and the butcher was able to give me some good advice about it and seemed to know his stuff.

Thats all gone now as I've vowed to not use a supermarket for meat ever again.

I dont use much meat as the wife is veggie, and since I've bought meat from the supermarkets all my life I have practically no knowledge of what good meat should look like, smell like, what cuts are used for what, weights... until now its all been a visual excercise... so I'm no expert on what makes good meat.

However my local butcher's stuff looks far superior even to my untrained eye and the butcher himself is answering my questions and giving me an education which I've never had from the supermarkets. And the meat I've had from him has been great so far. A little more expensive, but I get loads of satisfaction from the knowing its far better quality. When I am in the supermarkets I feel sorry for the people I see buying the meat in there, I want to tell them Nooooooooo, dont do it!

I really hope this forum and the people in it spread the word and murder supermarket butchers, supermarket fruit & veg coutners and supermarket fish mongers as they've done us all a huge injustice over the years.
They dont deserve our money!

BrandNewDay

Our local butcher isn't all that great, price-wise. We don't eat all that much meat, really. The only things I get are lean mince, sliced frying steak, whole chicken, and the very occassional pork roast. I buy when it's on sale at Tesco or Co-op. And, it's hard to compete with co-op's current special on small chickens of 2 for £4.

But, I do appreciate having someone to go to when I need something specific. Like, I need a turkey for Thanksgiving and I gather that they're usually not found in supermarkets in November (they'll be bringing them out in December.) So, I put in an order for the smallest one they could find me. That's a nice thing to be able to do.

When I lived in Gloucester, there were several butcher shops and I did enjoy using them for some things, but one of them really turned me off with their attitude. I wanted them to wrap up some pork chops individually and they refused, telling me to do it at home, myself. I told them that if that's what they call "service" then I'd buy my meat cheap at Tesco and I never went back. Of course, we Americans are pushy and have strange ideas about customer service....

BrandNewDay

Oh, yeah... I am going to be buying some venison off my landlord, who is a deer stalker... I don't know what I'm doing, but I like the idea of it being free-range and all.