Please help me choose what meat to order...

npsmama

I'm going to use http://www.mettricksbutchers.co.uk/home.htm

What are the best value/taste cuts to get?

We like a roast 3 times a month, I make salt beef, I make bacon, I make sausages, lamb is a favourite. We never really fry meat bc of the expensive cuts but just once a month this would be great. We eat meat 2-3 times a week plus ham/salt beef for sandwiches. We love slow cooked casseroles (I use slow cooker and pressure cooker to cook meats).

Can't stand offal!

I have lots of freezer space.

Would it be wise to get a 2 month supply? It's just me, DH and baby.

I'm wondering about ordering half a lamb but am not sure this would be good value.

Thanks for any help!

wigginsmum

The half-lamb looks superb to me - might just do this myself.

leni

:rotfl: This ssooo reminds me of my youth! I remember my sister once screaming and us all running to the bathroom to find a dead lamb in the bath.

Also going to kitchen sink and findinf massive Haddocks hanging out waiting for my dad to gut andcut them.

Or coming home from school to find my mam sat in the back garden with either chickens or pheasants hanging from the washing line and her plucking them!

This was only 15-18 years ago and in the middles of a city so no idea where they all came from

npsmama

Leni, I love your reply!!

Actually, to answer my own question, I found the info I needed in HFW's Meat book.

V.Lucky

Some nice recipe ideas on that site.

Is there not a local butcher that you could use? It would save you the £9 postage charge, and would ensure your meat would be really fresh.

I use my localish village butcher. Our favourite is a rolled shoulder of lamb. I have to order this in advance but get a whole shoulder and it cuts into 2joints, works out about £3.50-4 a joint and enough for 4 adults, one kid plus leftovers for sarnies too.

Usually cook it in the oven, I will have to get around to trying it in the slow cooker, although dh calls it the "silver beast" as he says he likes his meat to have texture, and that there is plenty of time for meat that you don't have to chew when he has no teeth and is in a nursing home