best place for beef joint?

supki

does anyone have suggestions where to buy good beef but that's not so pricey?

hubby's sis has agreed to host xmas dinner so im so dead chuffed as we really cant afford to host anything this yr.... but hubby who is v ill asked me very sweetly if we could afford to eat some beef over the xmas period made the way he likes it (i.e. cooked by me and v medium rare) i wondered if u had any suggestions. we'd only want a kg one as it's really only hubby and me......... would the butchers be a better option? last yr i bought 1.5kg for around 6 quid from asda but this yr having no such luck............

peachyprice

They have the topside joints in Sainsbury's at £4.99 a kilo at the mo, I managed to get one that was £8 ish, it cooked up very well and was lovely and tender. I only cooked half and put the other half in the freezer, if that's any help.

supki

i can only see 8.99 per kilo

7_week_wonder

Morrisons are doing vacuum packed beef roasting joints at £4.95 a kilo at the moment ("Better than half price" - apparently!) I picked one up at the weekend for over the Christmas period.

Uniscots97

what about Aldi or your local butcher?

meg72

Asda have beef at 5.00 kg although the pieces tend to be quite big I did find one for 8.00 cut in half for the freezer.

peachyprice

supki wrote: »

i can only see 8.99 per kilo

I've just seen those online, but they are Taste the Difference joints, the ones that were £4.99 were the 'normal' Irish beef ones.

Perhaps once they've gone they've gone, so they may still have some instore but aren't advertising them online anymore at £4.99? They certainly had a lot left on Friday when I went.

Might be worth popping in if you're passing.

maman

meg72 wrote: »

Asda have beef at 5.00 kg although the pieces tend to be quite big I did find one for 8.00 cut in half for the freezer.

This is in Asda at £5.00 a kg. They are quite large but I bought a few last Christmas and cut it into small joints for DH and I. As it's even cheaper per kg than casserole pieces or shin for stewing I cut some into cubes as well and portioned it up for the freezer. Lasted us well into the new year and I plan to do it again.

dogstarheaven

which is the better quality from Asda or Morrisons? I'm keen to buy one for Xmas too to go with 2 other meats that are on offer that I can't eat (turkey serves 6-8 and gammon serves 4-5 - yak!) There'll be 11 of us and wondering if the large ones of the Asda is big enough. I'd rather go on the quality tho'. I too, and the others would like it med. rare but sometimes cheap beef from s/m tend to be tough tho' imo.

Westywoodpecker

peachyprice wrote: »

They have the topside joints in Sainsbury's at £4.99 a kilo at the mo, I managed to get one that was £8 ish, it cooked up very well and was lovely and tender. I only cooked half and put the other half in the freezer, if that's any help.

I've bought a couple of these as they are a very good buy at half the normal price. They freeze very well & as PP says you can half it & freeze half.

Linz4383

mr ts beef is half price at the moment, i bought one and cut it in half to freeze as there is only me and my other half