Butcher's bill help please

thriftlady_2

soba wrote:

bathroom scales couldn't be relied on to give an accurate weight measurement for people - let alone sheep!!!!
Slightly OT but it still makes me laugh.

Yes mine are like that,they weigh at least 4 stone too much:rotfl: :rotfl:

Thistle-down

soba wrote:

One day she ordered a lamb for the freezer, so it was cut to requirements, labelled and priced. The lady came and took it away. A couple of days later she was back complaining that she'd been overcharged.

My oh works in a butchers and has had someone bring back the bone from a leg of lamb and demand a refund because she didn't eat it and shouldn't have to pay for it.

It was explained to her that the leg of lamb with a bone price was lower than a boneless leg of lamb, to take into account the weight of the bone.

She didn't understand and stood there fuming. She didn't get a refund.:rolleyes:

lynzpower

I think it might be a good idea to start a recommend a butcher thread- Gingham ribbon, what do you think. I sense it might get moved tho, but its not all about price.

We have very few choices for butchers here in East London. Theres one in Bethnal green that is frighteningly expensive ( 6 sausages cost 5.50, just untenable for me) another one thats cheap, freindly, but the meat is REALLY fatty and then Halal butchers which for ethical reasons I dont use.

But if someone coould recommend me a good butchers ( or an organc box delivery that does meat to my area) Ill take it,until then its supermarket meat for us IM afraid ( although I note a lot of free range & organic meat is on offer most supermarkets these days)

Debt_Free_Chick

Once you get used to going to a butcher, you need to do a little more research.

Some butchers are, sadly, no more than meat wholesalers. They buy meat, pre-cut, in bulk. This is no different to a supermarket and certainly NOT a butcher.

A butcher buys the whole carcass of the animal, usually from a market or abbattoir. He then "butchers" it ... cutting it into the different cuts.

As you visit a butcher more and more, try to find the confidence to talk to him about the meat ... where it comes from ....

Of course, if he butchers the carcass in front of your eyes, you have no worries!

lynzpower

DF chick

Thanks for this, I do know you are completely correct there. Its like that age old use your greengrocer/ markets argument, my father works for an import co that supplies GGs and markets etc, and he says in greater manchester at least the vast majority is imported, so you wont tend to get locally grown produce in them either.

Its fairly obvious where the "fatty" butchers meat comes from as Ive seen the empty boxes outside for colection on rubbish day, and it says on them "chicken wings" and that sort of thing.

And trying to get more cheaper cuts of meat like shin, just doenst really happen there, which is the tell tale sign!

moozie_2

troll35 wrote:

Going back to an early post in this thread about portion size, I found a really good plate in the kitchen at my local toddler group last week. It had a picture on it of how your food should be split between the food groups - approx. 1/4 protein group, 3/8 carbohydrate group and 3/8 veges. Each section had little pictures of the foods from within that group. I showed it to a few people and they all thought it was excellent. Don't know where it came from though.

I saw that kind of plate on the window of my local Holland & Barrett. I don't know how much it costs but it looks very interesting!

moozie_2

Thistle-down wrote:

My oh works in a butchers and has had someone bring back the bone from a leg of lamb and demand a refund because she didn't eat it and shouldn't have to pay for it.

It was explained to her that the leg of lamb with a bone price was lower than a boneless leg of lamb, to take into account the weight of the bone.

She didn't understand and stood there fuming. She didn't get a refund.:rolleyes:

:eek: :eek: :eek: WOW! And I thought I was bad!

Poppy9

I have never set foot in a butcher's shop in my life. From a young child I wanted to be Veggie and would stand outside refusing to go in while my mother went in for the shopping.

When my father was widowed I had to take a turn of cooking him Sunday lunch. Only ever cooked chicken in my life and he didn't eat poultry. Sent my OH to get a beef joint, made him handle it (as he had to with the chicken) asked a friend how to cook it and refused to eat any of it:o

I do now handle chicken and my DD is a real meatie through school dinners where they often serve a roast dinner.

I keep meaning to go to the butchers for chicken breasts that I cook with as the ones from Tesco's shrink badly, but I just can't bring myself to go into the shop with all that dead flesh:eek: . Do you think counselling would help:rotfl:

moozie_2

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

As you visit a butcher more and more, try to find the confidence to talk to him about the meat ... where it comes from ....

Of course, if he butchers the carcass in front of your eyes, you have no worries!

Yes that is definitely the plan! To become more confident and also more aware of what the different cuts are so that we can eat different types of meat than our usual.

I have to say both the lamb shoulder yesterday and the sirloin tonight were very good. He did butcher them both in front of me so at least I can say he's the genuine article! The sirloins were perfect for us, one slightly bigger than the other and very trimmed so OH was happy with his portion and good for the waistline too.

So far so good with this new experience

moozie_2

Poppy9 wrote:

Do you think counselling would help:rotfl:

I just think some things are not meant to be - like a veggie shopping in a butchers