What's the cheapest meat you've found?

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Hi Brandnewday,

Now that you've had some input from the Old Stylers I've moved your thread over to the Food Shopping and Groceries board to see if you can get more replies.

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Purplekylie22

If you have a freezer I recommened Lidl. Their Half price weekend offers are great for any type of meat. I usually go in and buy 6 (thats maximum per customer) of whatever is on offer if it is Chicken or Beef, Mince / Steaks / Whole / Diced. It saves me a lot.

I know thats not really the answer you were looking for but it really does save me a fortune. £1.39 for 500grams of lean steak mince... who can resist?!

Missli

I agree with a couple of other posters in stretching meals out, and always prefer quality over quantity with meat.

A whole chicken, mince, or even bacon are versatile foods.

Chicken cooked whole in my slow cooker, for a roast dinner, and sandwiches, saving the thigh, and spare meat for a curry (or similar), then boiling up the carcass for stock to make soup.

Steak mince can be padded out with a 1/2 a cupful of red lentils, grated carrots, lots of onion, and garlic. 400g lasts me a long while used like this.

Bacon, I bought some good quality (pre-packed, 12 rashers back bacon) broadland hams off-cuts on a bogof offer, so ended up with 24 decent-sized rashers for approx £4.39, so after having bacon sandwiches for brunch since Saturday, am using the remaining 8 rashers for a chilli, and bacon pasta sauce in my slow-cooker.

rachbc

Skin off bone in chicken thighs for me - £2.30 kg from the asian shop - lovely taste, 1 small bone, very little fat and no skin. I either bone and chop (keep th ebones for stock) or just freeze as they are.

Pork shoulder which I buy in joints then dice or mince.

This week I got 2 legs of lamb in tesco - £5.49 p/kg - boned, trimmed of fat and diced I got 1.5 kg from each one which is enough for 4 meals for us - and works out at around £7kg so much much cheaper than buying it already chopped.

rogerbarton

Yes the bacon lardons are delicious, but sausages are the cheapest meat (as long as you're not fussed about the amount of pork). If memory serves me correctly Sainsbury's Basics were the cheapest at 48p for a pack of 8.

BrandNewDay

Purplekylie22 wrote: »

If you have a freezer I recommened Lidl. Their Half price weekend offers are great for any type of meat. I usually go in and buy 6 (thats maximum per customer) of whatever is on offer if it is Chicken or Beef, Mince / Steaks / Whole / Diced. It saves me a lot.

I know thats not really the answer you were looking for but it really does save me a fortune. £1.39 for 500grams of lean steak mince... who can resist?!

I've heard a couple people mention these Lidle weekend specials. I will keep that in mind. In Oban, Lidl and Aldi are right next to one another (and next to Tesco.) I find Aldi so much cheaper and more pleasant than Lidl that I haven't gone there in a little while. But, I will make a point of looking at their meats if I'm up there on a weekend!

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Tescos last week had 500gms of 'cooking bacon'all chopped up bits for 74p I divided it into thirds and film wrapped two portions and cooked the third portion into a quiche with cheese,eggs and chopped onion and a small chopped pepper It did me for three days lunch's and I had some wholemeal pastry left over which I froze for use later I costed my big quiche at around 75p and it would have cost me about £3.00 plus at least in the supermarket.
I did buy my DD a big chicken a few weeks ago from Aldis and it fed her family of 6 for one night roasted with all the trimmings and the second night what was left over was made into a curry with lots of veg to bulk it out so her £4.10p chicken did 12 meals all told .I try to cost a meal at around 50-80 for a dinner and around 45p for lunch.Yesterday I had a bowl of soup, HM of course,and three ryvitas with cream cheese and a tomato on top and an orange and costed it at around 50p.
I enjoy trying to work out the cost of food and seeing how I can streeetch my cash a bit further

BrandNewDay

JackieO wrote: »

Tescos last week had 500gms of 'cooking bacon'all chopped up bits for 74p I divided it into thirds and film wrapped two portions and cooked the third portion into a quiche with cheese,eggs and chopped onion and a small chopped pepper It did me for three days lunch's and I had some wholemeal pastry left over which I froze for use later I costed my big quiche at around 75p and it would have cost me about £3.00 plus at least in the supermarket.
I did buy my DD a big chicken a few weeks ago from Aldis and it fed her family of 6 for one night roasted with all the trimmings and the second night what was left over was made into a curry with lots of veg to bulk it out so her £4.10p chicken did 12 meals all told .I try to cost a meal at around 50-80 for a dinner and around 45p for lunch.Yesterday I had a bowl of soup, HM of course,and three ryvitas with cream cheese and a tomato on top and an orange and costed it at around 50p.
I enjoy trying to work out the cost of food and seeing how I can streeetch my cash a bit further

I like the way you think! I haven't gotten organized enough to actually do the maths, but that's how I try to think of things... what costs the least per filling meal?

claireyrosey

Pork shoulder is very good value - morrisons sometimes have it for 2.66 a kg. No bone, and if you like crackling not much waste.
I slow roast it for a few hours, then pull it apart with a fork. Then you got pulled pork, great for roast dinner, in a roll with stuffing (rog roast) or chop up and use as mince.

BrandNewDay

What I do with that sort of pork is to dump some BBQ sauce over it, and slow cook it. Then tear it up with a fork and eat on rolls. It's delicious.

But, I don't like crackling, unfortunately. However... I wonder if the fat could be trimmed off, then slowly roasted and the drippings saved for cooking fat?