Will it stop you buying frozen ready meals

gailey_2

Im worried guys about just fresh mince. I have always brought fresh irish/beef labelled if thats contaminated then even people who cook from scratch will be affected.

Read the yahoo driver lifts lid on breaches.

Be morrsions and waitrose only for me.
Unless direct from farm.

Morrisions must be estatic as they have their own farms and abbatoirs and short supply chain.

Wonder what effect long term will have on uk shopping habits.

I supect temporary decline at least in ready meals and frozen meat at least.

Sadly reckon more bad news to come.

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I have always been wary of processed food and luckily rarely had occassion to eat it. Where I live my local butcher is doing a roaring trade, but then he always has as his meat is supplied from local bred animals The farm meat has won upteen awards for its meat and our local chap has been buying from the farmer for the past 15 + years that I know of.Its slightly dearer than a supermarkets meat but so much nicer and he will tell you what are the good buys that month and will also get you cuts that often aren't seen in supermarkets.His sausages are made on the premises ,infact you can see them being made at the back of the shop.Its a real old fashioned butchers and the chaps who work there take pride in supplying the best meat they can.I think that maybe the supermarkets have found that folk won't just eat any old rubbish if they can help it and maybe the bottom will fall out of the market for junk food (not a bad thing )I like to know what I'm eating and I really don't want to eat stuff that is full of fat chemicals and salt and lots of starnge sounding stuff.I am lucky that I can afford to be choosy but then I only have myself to cook for.When I was a little girl food was strictly rationed and made from scratch as no one I knew had a freezer so shopping was bought as and when needed.Maybe we should go back a bit to some of those ways (not no freezers as they are useful) but cooking stuff fresh from scratch if you can.Not much obesity around in the late 1940s and kids certainly didn't live on crisps and 'knitted food ' but we all survived and we ate far more vegatables than is eaten by todays average child.Case of having to owing to the scarecity of anything else to eat :)

Deepfatfriar

I heartily agree with Honey Bear.

I find it utterly unacceptable that the Government and the EU who have burdened us with a myriad of obviously worthless regulation cannot guarantee the integrity of our food supply. The salaries of these incompetents are luxurious and obviously a waste of money.

Obviously people like Findus are just as bad, do they not check what is going into their food ?

The notion that some of our food comes from a third world outfit like Romania begs some very serious questions.

It is just a distraction for our Government Minister to say it is organised crime when he and his whole infrastructure have been caught napping as usual. If it is corruption then it must go very high up into the EU as well.

It is utter nonsensense for him to say he can't ban imports.

We all remember the French banned our beef for years and they did so with impunity so we must do the same.

The only solution is to boycott those retailers who have been caught out, do they not check either ?

My wife has an organic box from a local farmer (meat & veg) and we use a local butcher as well whose meat is carefully labelled indicating this week's "guest" and where they came from.

Years ago I worked for the Ministry of Agriculture when it was interested in food production and every livestock market had MAFF inspectors, every slaughterhouse had MAFF inspectors who stamped every carcass before it was sold to butchers. We knew exactly what it was that was entering the food chain and where it came from.


The serious question that comes from all this is what else is in our food that we don't know about yet ?

The only solution is buy local and give our farms and towns a
much needed revival by producing and selling locally produced food..

gailey_2

Agree I hope every butcher/farmshop is really marketing themselves well now as nows their chance to regain market share.

I also imagine waitrose /morrisions will get increased business.

findus specified french or belguim beef not romanian.

I do think The eu has created such a mess.

how can stuff legally be packed in uk and stamped british.

The supply chains so long and complex makes me doubt even the more reputable retailers as most use same suppliers.
Those suppiers probably used a meat trader who deals with handful of suppliers.

If I as the governemnet I would have huge clampdown now and try keep uk safe and only uk stuff on shelf until we know whats safe and whats not.

I never get how can be cheaper to have new zealand lamb than welsh?

off to look at more veggie recipies.

Mistral001

To answer the question in the OP. Yes I have stopped buying them. It has also put me off buying any other processed meat such as sausages.

Since the alternatives are usually more expensive, I suppose it will mean that I will have to eat less meat.

kezlou

I agree JackieO, for us it is more to do with from scratch and i tend to buy most of our meat from the butchers near us. They halal but i know for fact that its fresh and generally delivered within 24 hours of it being slaughtered.

Only thing is we are moving soon and although they is a butchers in the local shops to us but because i don't know them i'm a bit wary to be honest. Used non-halal butchers in the past and they have been awful and can taste the preservatives on the meat

Regarding what kittie said about the Vietnamese fish trade the stuff they pump in awful. As is the way prawns are pumped with water to make them appear to be bigger.

I honestly don't think it will change many peoples shopping habits and how they eat.

Regarding Morrisons, i don't trust them as i as throw them. I've known a few people to work for them and the state of the storerooms are deplorable. I have seen pictures of boxes left open with supposedly frozen food falling out of them. Its truly disgusting. If we shop there its for the deli and fresh bread.

Hobsons_Choice

The upside of all this is that local butchers should now get a lot more business, at the expense of supermarkets.
Butchers are an endangered species (certainly around here) so that would be one good thing to come out of this sorry mess!

elona

I have been making my own burgers, kofta kebabs and proper meals for years now as "At least I know what is in the food".

When I said this I was thinking of ingredients like salt, sugar, additives etc - not that what I thought was beef or lamb mince could be something like horse :eek:

I am going down to local butcher this morning and getting a family pack of mince, chicken breasts, bacon, chops etc for this week's meals.

Even if it is yellow stickered I am only buying identifiable meat like chicken, chops or gammon from any supermarket in future. I plan to use any food we already have in the freezer but there are no ready meals in there thank heavens.

Disgusted with the lot of them - regulators, government, food inspectors, supermarkets and so called "food producers" :mad:

squeakysue

I never buy ready meals anyway but it does make we wonder about mince be it frozen or fresh. I would not be too bothered if I had unknowingly consumed horse meat as long it was safe for consumption, I am a meat eater anyway but as people say this is just the tip of the iceberg, what else is being put into our food without us knowing be that animals or chemicals, it's frightening!

This is definitely the time to get back to basics with fresh food cooked from scratch, it may not always be cheaper but at least we know exactly what isin our food that way.

bargainbetty

I've not eaten a ready meal from a shop in years, and batch cook my own (the second drawer of my freezer looks like a Tetris game with all the foil and plastic tubs).

I do buy burgers very occasionally, but usually the fresh ones from Waitrose, because I don't like the texture of the cheap ones, and luckily my local butcher produces its own mince on site. I know what's in it, and it's written on the label. I also know it might not be the best parts of the animal!

I might buy a burger press to avoid the chemical junk in future, because I am disturbed by the risk of meat that is unfit for human consumption entering the food chain. I don't have a problem with horse meat at all, having thoroughly enjoyed it previously. I've eaten quite a few random meats, and don't believe the schtick about developed realtionships with particular animals. Pets are pets, animals bred for food are food. Just a personal thing though, everyone has their opinion.