I need meat!

sniggings

maman wrote: »

I suppose it depends where you live. I just looked at the website f my local one and beef shin is £8.80 per kg and I think silverside was £18.50. The joint from I got from Asda was £4 per kg. I suppose it depends whether your local butcher sees their market as the yummy mummy brigade or is pricing more realistically to make the business survive.

Yeah I have not checked this out but I can not see a local farmer selling meat direct for cheaper than places like Asda, especially when they have it on offer.

tiff

Sainsburys now have gammon joints half price at £3.99/kg.

antrobus

tiff wrote: »

Sainsburys now have gammon joints half price at £3.99/kg.

Tesco £3.85/kg.

(They have 2.6kg joints reduced from £13 to £10. God only knows how Sainsbury's could be charging £21 or so for the same thing before the 'half price' offer.:))

bylromarha

prettyflamingo wrote: »

yep im the same look for reductions in stores, or aldi is good for a full free range chicken for around £5 which I can make 10 meals out of usually.

How on earth do you get 10 meals out of 1 chicken?

Or do you mean 10 portions?

Teach me please - I'm all ears!

sniggings

bylromarha wrote: »

How on earth do you get 10 meals out of 1 chicken?

Or do you mean 10 portions?

Teach me please - I'm all ears!

what's your definitions of a "meal"? doesn't meal and portion in this context mean the same thing?

10 meals/portions would be very doable out of a chicken.

sniggings

tiff wrote: »

Sainsburys now have gammon joints half price at £3.99/kg.

cheers, I'll check that out today, never cooked that before though any suggestions? would it be best in the slow cooker or oven?

maman

tiff wrote: »

Sainsburys now have gammon joints half price at £3.99/kg.

Incidentally it's always that price at Lidl or Aldi and the joints are around the 1 kg size so better for everyday cooking.

sniggings wrote: »

cheers, I'll check that out today, never cooked that before though any suggestions? would it be best in the slow cooker or oven?

You can do it on the hob or in the slow cooker. For a traditional way of cooking I just boil/simmer with an onion, a carrot, a few peppercorns and a couple of bay leaves. Don't worry if you don't have these as it will taste fine with plain water. Some people cook it in cola or apple juice but I don't as I like to use the stock for lentil soup afterwards. Let it rest after cooking and then slice. Lovely for a meal but equally yummy frozen in portion sizes for other meals or sandwiches. And far cheaper and tastier than buying cooked ham.

sniggings

maman wrote: »

Incidentally it's always that price at Lidl or Aldi and the joints are around the 1 kg size so better for everyday cooking.




You can do it on the hob or in the slow cooker. For a traditional way of cooking I just boil/simmer with an onion, a carrot, a few peppercorns and a couple of bay leaves. Don't worry if you don't have these as it will taste fine with plain water. Some people cook it in cola or apple juice but I don't as I like to use the stock for lentil soup afterwards. Let it rest after cooking and then slice. Lovely for a meal but equally yummy frozen in portion sizes for other meals or sandwiches. And far cheaper and tastier than buying cooked ham.

cheers for that, as you listed the ingredients, I was ticking them off in my head, as I have had to buy a few things with getting into this slow cooker lack, so all I don't have is the peppercorns, I needed them for my last stew I made but after everything else I bought, the peppercorns got crossed off the list as I was spending too much and they seemed so expensive for what they were, so I thought I would just add a bit extra pepper instead ...but as they have come up again I guess I will buy them this time, right off to Sainsburys, they better have the gammon in!

mandragora_2

Just use ordinary pepper. It will be fine.

sniggings

mandragora wrote: »

Just use ordinary pepper. It will be fine.

too late...ended up getting the gammon from Aldi as I was in there anyway and as said above slightly cheaper, turns out I also ready had pepper corns anyway as didn't realsie they are the same thing that goes in the pepper mill, was thinking they were something different, anyway £1.09 from Aldi so cheaper than the ones I was looking at in sainsburys.

1.3kg for £4.99 now at last I feel I can start cooking cheap meals, after my £4.50 0.3kg lamb mistake