Morrison Pork Meal Deal £6

Chocmonster7

Bought the £4 Pork Loin and am going to cut at least two decent steaks off it then cook the rest as a joint for cold meat & sandwiches. Also treated myself to a trifle, loads of each thing int he Darlington North Road store today.

UnderPressure

Top tip well if you caan call it that????

This is what I do anyhow and get perfect crackling 99% of the time.

Make sure to begin with the skin is dry if it has come out of a vac pack I would unwrap it the day before I want to use it then pat it dry with kitchen towel and leave it in the fridge uncovered overnight this will then dry the skin out for you.

Before it goes into the oven make sure th skin is scored as much as you can safely, a good sharp knife or one of those serrated one will do the trick, I try to make each score line about 1cm apart the more you can squeeze in the more it will crisp up and also the easier it will be to cut the cracking later when it is cooked, DO NOT salt at this stage.

About half an hour before it comes out of the oven take it out and sprinkle liberally with salt, now if you use the powdered chemical filled "table" salt it will crisp it up but it will also leave a slaty taste to the crackling, If you do use this kind of salt please please please throw it in the bin and go and buy some decent "natural" salt, I buy Maldon seat salt from Tesco which is arguably the best and its not expensive not really about £1.40 a box and because it is "natural" salt you use less as well, it is in the form or quite large crystals so for the crackling simply sprinke the crystal on the skin put in back in the oven for the remainder of the cooking. When you take it out you can simply scrape the salt crystals off the skin with a knife and it does not leave a salty taste

Maldon salt will also crush easily inbetween your fingers so if you like it finer for your chips or whatever there is no need for a grinder

If after all this it still does not crisp up which sometime it wont due to the crap qualityh of pork we all buy from the supermarkets you can then cut the skin off put it on your grill pan and put it under the grill for as long as it needs to become crisp

HTH

ALIBOBSY

UnderPressure wrote: »

I have just got back from my local Morrisons only went this week to spend the dam 40 quid so we could get the voucher, I have to say apart from 3 or 4 excellent offers it was really difficult to spend 40 quid this week, we went to Tesco the other day and virtually everything we picked up in Morrisons that we usually buy I was saying to my better half "cheaper in Tesco, cheaper in Tesco, cheaper in Tesco!!!"

Crikey I used to hate Tresco and still do to a certain extent I think as a company thier ethics and they way they treat suppliers is ridiculous but I am finding week after week they are cheaper on nealry everything compared to Morrisons shame really we used to always shop at Morrisons every week for many years.....................

Anyhow this pork dinner deal is not the golden egg they would have you think the pork looks well it certainly is not come from anykind of premium animal anyhow and it for to be this cheap then mark my words it will have been pumped with all sorts of crap to get the weight up and as soon as you show it to the oven it will shrink shrink shrink. Then there is the veg pack woweeeeeee the ones in my local had 4 spuds in a couple of carrots and about 6 sprouts lolzzzz Supermarket trifles are naff so dont even need to comment on this and the soup although it has a finest label on it I guarantee it will either be a "new" flavour you have never seen them selling before or will be made in a cheaper way to the other finest soups at 4 times the price!!!

This lovely meal is prices at 6 quid because it is worth 6 quid and I also guarantee Morrisons will be making a profit on that as well Dont for one minute think they are "trying to make life cheaper for you" lol not in a million.

Anyhow hope you all enjoy it

We have a tesco as well as morrisons and a bit further away an asda, plus an aldi and lidl. I have shopped in all the big 3 and found that tesco and asda occasionally are marginally cheaper on branded goods, but their own brand (which again are either same price or slightly cheaper) are substantially lower quality than morrisons, aldi and lidl. But I suppose it depends on how much time you have to shop and cook. For me the quality matters because I buy alot of ingredients and cook from scratch. This is why apart from certain offers I rarely shop in asda or tesco, but then again to me being MSE means I tart around the shops for the deals, use all of them and also use 2 local farm shops for much much better quality local meat,butter,veggies,cheese, bread etc etc etc. I would never have to cash to do "a big shop" and get everything in tesco or asda. But I am time rich so can shop around.
Quality wise non of the supermarkets are great at quality of meat or fruit and veg but in my experience and ev1 i have spoken to about it Morrisons is way in front. Even the local butcher says Morrisons are not bad for meat if you have to use a supermarket.

I don't know what you are talking about veggies on this offer. I got 5 middle to large size spuds about 8-10 carrots and too many sprouts to count without opening the pack. At least 20 ish.

No offer is a giveaway, even loss leaders will make a small profit. Look at the offer and weigh up the unit price and watch for the tricks. The latest trick seems to be smaller amounts for the same price or lower quality for the same price.

For the record the soup I have seen on sale before and is good for 50p its smashing and a definate bargain. Not as good as my homemade, but handy for the freezer.

ali x

sirbrainy

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

in my experience and ev1 i have spoken to about it Morrisons is way in front. Even the local butcher says Morrisons are not bad for meat if you have to use a supermarket.

I don't know what you are talking about veggies on this offer. I got 5 middle to large size spuds about 8-10 carrots and too many sprouts to count without opening the pack. At least 20 ish.

No offer is a giveaway, even loss leaders will make a small profit. x

Morrisons are easily the best big 4 for butcher's stuff - by a country mile but I guess we are talking red meat here not pork?

The veggies in this offer looked poor, looked like they'd gone for cheapest supplier and quality had gone out the window.

Trifle & soup OK for 50p but not worth much more than that, trifle maybe £1 but better off making it yourself IMVHO.

I gave it a miss on Friday but might try and grab a couple of trifles for the kids tomorrow am.

quidsinquentin

This wasn't available in my local Morrisons - and it's a big store. I'm presuming they couldn't get stock because of the bad weather.

on-the-count-of-three

ALIBOBSY wrote: »

We have a tesco as well as morrisons and a bit further away an asda, plus an aldi and lidl. I have shopped in all the big 3 and found that tesco and asda occasionally are marginally cheaper on branded goods, but their own brand (which again are either same price or slightly cheaper) are substantially lower quality than morrisons, aldi and lidl. But I suppose it depends on how much time you have to shop and cook. For me the quality matters because I buy alot of ingredients and cook from scratch. This is why apart from certain offers I rarely shop in asda or tesco,.....

Really?
I suppose a lot is a matter of taste. I generally prefer Tesco's own brands to Morrison's. Coffee for example..I had to throw the jar away when I tried Morrison's, but there you go. I agree in general Morrison's is better for meat, although the beef joint I bought in last years offer was as tough as old boots. I generally use a butcher but did ask OH to pick me up one of the pork joints today & it looks really fatty. He said it was the best there & he really had to hunt for it.

I cook from scratch too, but apart from meat,..& possibly fish, but we are not big fish eaters, I find the quality in our Mr T's very good.

UnderPressure

As I said in my earlier post I have been a avid Morrisons shopper for a long time many many years, coming from up north this is in fact where my mum has always shopped for almost 25 years now and believe me they are nothing like they used to be, they USED to have excellent quality produce fruit and veg, fish, meat etc etc not anymore I really think when they rolled out nationally their produce took a bit hit quality wise who knows maybe there original suppliers could not keep up with increases demand?

As much as it pains me to say this and please believe me it really does pain me, I have hated Tesco with a passion for years purely from the point of view that for such a big company their ethics and morals are well terrible is the only sensible word I can think of, I refused point blank to shop at Tesco for a long time I find myself now in the strange situation of not having a choice really but to shop at Tesco, hands down they win it every time for me now excellent selection of products, dam good quality especially the finest range which is mostly what we buy anyhow, clubcard point great offers the list goes on.................................

I still think as a company they are a bunch of 5his***s but up until last month where I lived there was not another option we have a Morrisons but I do firmly believe they have gone completely down hill of late yeah sure they have a butchery on site well if you can call it that, have you never seen them lugging great chunks of meat from the back in a VAC pack and simply cutting it up and shoving it in a tray with a bit of cling film?? This is not my idea of a traditional buther far from it, their fish counter constantly stinks you can smell it in my local from the minute you walk in the shop!!! Fresh fish should not smell at all!! Fruit and veg used to be great again not anymore but I find the quality of fruit and veg in all the supermarkets to be crap anyhow. The only good thing Morrisons has for me is the bakery which I still think shines head and shoulders above the rest but again the range of goods available is terrible in comparison to Tesco.

BTW these pork joint have nothing at all to do with Morrisons so called butchers they come ready packed for sale from god knows where, as has been said by another poster they are VERY fatty, a good piece of beef you would like to see fat "marbling" going through the red meat, I dont want to see fat marbling in a pork loin yet these in Morrisons are full of it this just shows that the animal has been super fed on steroids and god knows what to accelerate growth definately not a quality piece of meat especially when they have finished injecting it with god knows what to increase the weight as well

We had an M&S open in our local town a short while ago we used to do a bit of shopping at an M&S when we lived in a big town and it was always spot on quality so we are going to give them a whirl again and see how we go, I could not afford to do a full shop there sadly but I will buy meat and veg from there and see if they still have outstanding quality, I know not all people can do it but for use a few extra quid here and there we are happy to pay to get decent quality food.

The only good thing Morrisons has at the moment is these BOG2F offers I like them a lot but again Tesco wont be beaten I have seen these cropping up in their stores as well now.

Asda ummmmmmm no not for me ever since Wallmart took them over the reak of Aldi and Lidl not that there is anything wrong with this we pop into our local ALdi now and then for a few things I dont like the way Asda pretend to be something of quality when they are clearly not again another chain that used to be superb known for quality produce then the yanks got em and it all went wrong. I can never understand how they win these chepaest supermarket awards every time we say ok lets give Asda another go we always always end up spending more than we would at Tesco besides being cheapest does not necessarily make them better in fact the complete opposite IMO.

I dont class myself as being a "food snob" before someone labels me with that one I just like myself and family to be eating good quality food that has not been messed with in order to increase some greedy supermarkets bottom line!!

You know the thing that annoys me the most is how we have let the supermarkets literally take the pi%* out of us in the first place, before they came along we bough our produce from local green grocers, butchers and bakers then the birth of the supermarket they iradicated all of these local businesses that could not compete with over processed dog food then as soon as they were all gone along they come with their "finest" ranges which is basically the great quality food we were buying in the first place from the local shops but now it carries a premium price tag!!!!! Ridiculous really they have a lot to answer for they really do, nobody can understand why we have this modern hoodie thug culture, there are many reasons of course there are but I am certain 1 of them is the crap they were fed when they were kids all that processing of foods and eating bits and bobs of animals you would not feed your dog has to have somekind of consequence dont you think?

Anyway sorry a bit of topic Rant now over