The Reduced section: Your best bargains

squeaky

Erm... there are a few threads that might help. Most have several recipes to choose from:-

Meat:
- Joints pictured plus cooking methods (link)
- Bacon - Makin' Bacon
- Bacon offcuts - what to do with them?
- Bacon - recipes using it?
- Bacon - Saltpetre needed
- Bacon and egg pie recipe?
- Beef - Salt beef
- Black pudding
- Brains
- Braising steak ideas?
- Brisket - Have you cooked? & Yummy but... (merged)
- Brisket - What to do with brisket
- Cheapest cuts to buy?
- Cheaper cuts of meat PLUS colour diagrams link
- Cheap steak
- Corned beef
- Corned beef hash
- Corned beef - home made
- Cooking a joint of beef
- Gammon - steaming
- Ham - help needed
- Heart - Stuffed heart recipe please
- Lamb - Cheshire Lamb Crumble
- Lamb - half shoulder of lamb
- Lamb - leg of lamb (boneless) (but have the bone)
- Lamb - meatballs / patties
- Lamb - Minted lamb?
- Liver recipe needed
- Mince - Ideas please?
- Mince - More exciting mince
- Mince - Savings on mince
- Pork - Cooked piggy
- Pork - Cooking a pork joint
- Pork - Pork Belly
- Pork - What to do with 10 Pork Chops?
- Rabbit
- Reheating lamb
- Sausage Casserole Old Style
- Sausages - Home made, help please
- Shepherds pie - can I prepare now and eat later?
- Soya mince?
- Steak and...?
- Steak and kidney
- The perfect roast?


Chicken and other poultry:
- Bored with rubber chicken
- Chicken breasts, bacon and cheese?
- Chicken & Rosemary - Too Lazy/Tired to stuff a chicken
- Chicken & sauce
- Chicken thigh recipes wanted!
- Chicken Nuggets
- Christmas dinner starter
- Duck
- Duck - Stock, what to do with it?
- Feeding the five thousand...
- Giblets - What to do?
- Help me make my chicken rubber
- Hickory smoked chicken
- Home made version of big Als BBQ Chicken Grills?
- How to cook a poussin?
- Recipe for chicken pie/crumble
- Reheating a Rubber Chicken
- Rubber Chicken
- Using chicken carcasses for soup?

liz.._4

I tend to 'spin' my meat rations out with beans..aduki go nice with beef, haricot with chicken, flageolets with lamb. Also useful to have dried soya mince in as I mix this with mince to make it go further and no one notices! Bon appetit!

liney

Thanks for the suggestions. Does corn fed chuck taste much different to normal chuck?

Alfietinker

Yummy - tuna steak! Have you tried marinating it before grilling/griddling? Lemon/lime, soy sauce, bit of garlic, chilli, ginger?

Or if you want it to feed 4 then do the same but cut it into chunks and make a oriental rice dish. I can't remember exactly how he did it but a friend once made this and it was a kind of sticky rice with marinated tuna steak and spring onion. It was delicious!

TurnaroundSue

Hi - Yesterday I went to Morristons and bought a load of goodies (in fact 2 carrier bags full) and my total bill was £10.83. On the way home it got me thinking to see if I can only live off things that are reduced/on BOGOF for the rest of the month and see how I go. I will plan my meals around the things I buy reduced/on BOGOF. I will allow myself bread/milk at full price as these normally do not get reduced (but will try and buy them reduced if I can).

I have quite a lot in the freezer also so I will see how this challenge will go and keep you posted. Anyone want to join in then please feel free.

M.E.

I call into the supermarket at 9-pm ish on a Friday after music practice. Often there are reduced items.
Have spent £12 this Friday but this includes full price on milk, coffee and dishwasher powder !!!!
cheapies----
5 pork joints now frozen
6 packets liver made pate now frozen
4 packets of small lunch box size apples will juice later this week
3 packets small pears one already juiced, the other two will be juiced later
6 kg of carrots juiced and also into soup
4 kg organic parsnips made into soup
3 dozen organic free range eggs (1p for 6!!!)
3 bunches of flowers... beautiful 50p instead of £4.99 each
6 pack yoghurt
3 litres of upmarket smoothie (all gone)
2 packets of danish blue
6 chillies (4p)
prawns (eaten that evening)
bunch of parsley
bunch of coriander

TurnaroundSue

M.E. wrote: »

I call into the supermarket at 9-pm ish on a Friday after music practice. Often there are reduced items.
Have spent £12 this Friday but this includes full price on milk, coffee and dishwasher powder !!!!
cheapies----
5 pork joints now frozen
6 packets liver made pate now frozen
4 packets of small lunch box size apples will juice later this week
3 packets small pears one already juiced, the other two will be juiced later
6 kg of carrots juiced and also into soup
4 kg organic parsnips made into soup
3 dozen organic free range eggs (1p for 6!!!)
3 bunches of flowers... beautiful 50p instead of £4.99 each
6 pack yoghurt
3 litres of upmarket smoothie (all gone)
2 packets of danish blue
6 chillies (4p)
prawns (eaten that evening)
bunch of parsley
bunch of coriander

A girl after my own heart That's fab ME - I just love bargins like that - especially 6 organic free range eggs for 1p - AMAZING!!!:T

morwenna

TurnaroundSue wrote: »

A girl after my own heart That's fab ME - I just love bargins like that - especially 6 organic free range eggs for 1p - AMAZING!!!:T

I'm soo glad I'm not the only one doing this... I will even go there at "reducing time" if I don't need anything... sad really :rotfl:

The freezer is stuffed full atm, so will have to stop for a while

Pink.

In Martin's article on Supermarket Shopping there's a link to Secret Reduction policies that may help.

Pink

G-G_4

local co-op always has reduced bread after 9pm, rolls, loaves all sorts..