Has the chevalburger incident changed your mind about food or shops you buy it in ?

MavisTheMaven

I've never bought cheap frozen processed meat and I seldom buy meat these days anyway. We've been eating mostly vegetarian at home for about 2 years now and neither of us miss it (my partner isn't keen on meat at all and it was him that requested we stop buying it), but I will get good quality meat in and cook it if we have guests who eat meat. I feel much healthier and have not put back on the two stone I lost when we first revised our diet. If we have a barbecue in the summer, then I splurge with some of the money we've saved and buy Aberdeen Angus from Costco. And yes I agree. LEARN TO COOK. This should be our mantra for moneysaving.

gailey_2

Im actually quite a good cook with savoury at least.

find cakes trickier.

will get back into making my on bread again omly stopped as picking up reduced was cheaper tha bread flour.

I actually quite enjoy cooking.
My mum wasent a good cook and home ec as great in school.
Im in my early 30,s and try do 5/7meals per week from scratch.
e havet brought jars pasta sauce in years.
Like making pizza with kids.
I do lovley chicken pasties
make my own shortcrust pastry.

what constantly lets me don is my old 1970s oven with one collap[sed hob, grill seems to smoke no matter how much clean it and door has no window and doesnt shut properly so reckon why cakes go south is air to it and fact have to open door to check it.
Its not my oven its landlord who thinks its perfectly fine.

For some reason I dont like slow cookers prefer to do oven based casseroles.

I do need new casserole dish, saucapan and utensils though.

just keep saying when I have spare money which never do.

I have freinds and family who dont cook much best mate lives off readymeaks and rubbish.

Biggest thing for me is time so going to put a little file of quick easy recipies when im tired or have busy day and try and batchcook and freeze more.

A._Badger

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It sounds like you're doing a really good job under difficult circumstances Maybe trying to worry a bit less would stop it seeming so daunting?

Edwardia

http://www.dairydiary.co.uk/dairy-book-of-home-cookery.html

The link is for the latest edition which I haven't seen but I can 1000% recommend the edition by Sonia Allison from the 70s which thousands of grandmas and mums had. Pretty hard to come by that edition but as long as you follow the recipes they always work.

freyasmum

No, it hasn't me personally - I buy 'proper' meat, and veg and I try to buy as little processed as possible.

I don't see anything wrong with eating horse either - we eat other meat, so why not? HOWEVER, it should 100% be a choice to eat it, not because it has accidentally slipped into the food chain :eek:

joeyboy

I was surprised to learn the more "premium" own brand products were effected. I mean I know value burgers at Tesco or 46 sausages for £2 at Iceland are going to made with some rather questionable ingredients. But at Iceland our "100% beef" quarter pounders were also affected, although the exact ingredient list isn't in front of me but I'm almost certain it's just 99% beef and salt (1% I imagine). No mention of any protein powder to bulk out the product. In fact I've never seen any mention of a protein powder as an ingredient. Now I think it's quite deceptive not to mention this, even in cheaper products. If a cheap sausage only has 36% pork, then water, vegetable protein, starch etc, I'll accept that, but if some sort of protein powder which seems to be made up of multiple animals, it should be mentioned in the ingredients list.

I mean Jews/Muslims who purchased our 100% beef burgers may have now consumed horse and pork, albeit this may be tiny traces and not actual pieces of meat, but it's still completely unacceptable and I wouldn't be surprised if some lawsuits weren't attempted. I mean hell if this happens with such large companies like Dalepak, who make all our meat products pretty much, what about elsewhere? What if I have a peanut allergy and it turns out some nut powder is used with peanut in it that's slipped past inspection? If I'm sensitive enough even a trace could set of a reaction.

gailey_2

joeyboy wrote: »

I was surprised to learn the more "premium" own brand products were effected. I mean I know value burgers at Tesco or 46 sausages for £2 at Iceland are going to made with some rather questionable ingredients. But at Iceland our "100% beef" quarter pounders were also affected, although the exact ingredient list isn't in front of me but I'm almost certain it's just 99% beef and salt (1% I imagine). No mention of any protein powder to bulk out the product. In fact I've never seen any mention of a protein powder as an ingredient. Now I think it's quite deceptive not to mention this, even in cheaper products. If a cheap sausage only has 36% pork, then water, vegetable protein, starch etc, I'll accept that, but if some sort of protein powder which seems to be made up of multiple animals, it should be mentioned in the ingredients list.

I mean Jews/Muslims who purchased our 100% beef burgers may have now consumed horse and pork, albeit this may be tiny traces and not actual pieces of meat, but it's still completely unacceptable and I wouldn't be surprised if some lawsuits weren't attempted. I mean hell if this happens with such large companies like Dalepak, who make all our meat products pretty much, what about elsewhere? What if I have a peanut allergy and it turns out some nut powder is used with peanut in it that's slipped past inspection? If I'm sensitive enough even a trace could set of a reaction.

Hi joey boy

whats the reaction been from customers?

Do you have lots of empty freezers?

I read in article yesterday the dalepak factory still open and making burgers for iceland yet the irish factory closed down very odd if product recall.

Sadly meat content and all extra added rusk happens with value lines.

However added protein powder not listed on ingrediants list.
not knowing what animal protein derived from
or which country is just shocking and wrong.

The horse meat debates clouding peoples opinio on this.

its 29%horse dna from powders ground up horse bones and god knows what other body parts. not 29%horse meat

No one truly knows:(

The use of protein powders to bind the 3bird roast made me feel bit quesy as had aldi one xmas day.

Where does fresh meat in iceland come from these days? ireland
Again never brought as battery chickens could tell from pock marks o each bird and so much was brought back off before date..

im baffled that foreign meat can be imported packed in uk then branded uk/british.

I did used to read lo of packaging when replenishing frozen.

Most of the frozen poultry had thailand on the 4.99 bog off frozen fillets never brought or eaten, think lot of their party fayre was thailand as well.

Personally Worry the asian poultry be food scare for future.

When iceland was part of big food group they used to have free from list on the intranet.

I know they doing well and making good profits these days.

But its come at cost lost lots of customers, never hear about gm anymore and the organics could have worked.

gailey_2

A._Badger wrote: »

It sounds like you're doing a really good job under difficult circumstances Maybe trying to worry a bit less would stop it seeming so daunting?

Thanks for kind words.

november and december were hectic months of many events where I dident cook as much as I normally would.

But I brought stuff, read packing thinking I could trust it and then fed my 3children.

Like i say had least 2nites off the cooking.

fed kids breaded chicken/fish with chips
pizza
odd frozen burger.sainsburys:( not value.
takeaway

odd ready meal even

I used to buy meat from mobile butchers thinking well feeling confident it was british.

Learnt so many food horrors last week of things not on label that dident even realise were included.

I am stuck in a food rut maybe last 3months as bit bored.

The kind of things I cook o regular basis far from gourmet

chilli con carne and rice
tacos and chilli
spag bol
pasta and bacon peices
chicken curry
cottage pie- do one version with gravy and another with italian herbs spices and passatta.-freezes well
beef casseroles quite frequent
chicken casserole-not done in ages.
chicken coq au vin0again love this dish but not done in ages.
lasage from scratch with lean mince, passatta,creme fraiche for white sauce-jaimie oliver recipie adapted.
Hm pizza-Again another jaimie recipie.
omlette/frittas and chips
jacket potatoes
salmon, new potatoes and frozen veg.
Roast nearly always free range or rspca chicken.
occasionally lamb /beef.
od treat beef steaks in peppercorn sauce chips and frozen petit pois.

Fish and chips
ocassionally make a homemade pie
soups tend to make tomato or onion-need to extend my soups.
I do cheat and but fresh covent garden soups or aldis london company.
pasties
rissotto with smoked salmon or leftover roast chicken and bacon.

Partial to odd vennision burger -prem chilled burger co-op.

I dont buy value meats but now wondering if can trust pack mince even?

Hubby sometimes buys reformed ham which I hate.

other than that kids have creals/toast/crumpets, fruit and yogurt for brekkie.

Kids have lots fruit/yogurts.

I limit crisps, biscuits and fizzy drinks

Infact looking at whats written 2012 was very meat heavy.
we dident eat as much poulty as we used to or eat much fish which we love.

I think possibly lost passion for cooking as been so busy, tired and bit bored.

i need to go through my many recipie books and when meal pka start doing something new

Want to do more veggie dishes, eat more fish.
try expand kiddies limited tastes

Definatly want to be lot more at natural.

experimenting with organics, keep to free range philosphy and british on poultry.

2012 had been bad year for veggie patch and foraging due to rain.

System

unless birds eye suddenly get recalled i won't really change my shopping, i only tend to eat some frozen birdseye stuff, mainly chicken. i can't afford to eat organic meat..not that i eat meat that often anyway.

suki1964

Gaily, have you had a look at the what are you cooking for dinner tonight thread?

I just joined and already I'm cooking from scratch a lot more. There's some great ideas there, not all meat based. And most are very economical and easy made