I need meat!

geordie_joe

almillar wrote: »

geordie joe - I did - check the first sentence!

OK, hang on and I'll check it again......I'll even turn it bold so you can see I'm checking the right sentance.

Originally Posted by almillar
Check local butchers. People work under the assumption that supermakets are cheapest for everything. Can be very un-true!
Depending on the butcher you could be getting higher quality meat, better welfare meat, more traceable meat or better advice, or all of the above.

Nope, still can't see it.

almillar wrote: »

Local butchers can be cheaper AND better at the same time than the supermarkets.

can does mean are! I don't know where all these cheap butchers are, I can't find one anywhere.

Anyway, the bit I was really replying to was this

Originally Posted by almillar
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Depending on the butcher you could be getting higher quality meat, better welfare meat, more traceable meat or better advice, or all of the above.

No mention of the butcher being cheaper. I also notice you say "Depending on the butcher", which also means if you shop at a butcher you may not get the above, depending on the butcher.

almillar wrote: »

If you don't care about the above, feel free to stick with your horse burgers...

I don't eat horse burgers, that's just you trying to big up what you eat by putting down stuff you don't eat. It's perfectly possible to not care about animals and not eat cheap burgers. It's perfectly possible to not care about animals AND not eat the cheapest value meat products. It's perfectly possible to walk into a shop, see a piece of meat at a price you find acceptable and buy it without noticing, or caring that all the gubbings on the label means it is free range, organic, high welfare, hand fed, ferried round the fields on a red tractor and slept in a 5 star barn.

So why imply that someone who does not care about the animal must eat horse?

almillar wrote: »

You can still get the good stuff cheaper than the supermarkets.

So you keep saying, as do others, but I have never seen a butcher that has meat cheaper than a supermarket.

I have googled "bad butchers" and there are far more of them than there are bad supermarkets.

Mrs_Cheshire

sniggings wrote: »

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

You will find lamb more expensive than other meats. For slow cooking, look for lamb shoulder or breast.

holgate79

geordie_joe wrote: »

So you keep saying, as do others, but I have never seen a butcher that has meat cheaper than the supermarket.

Around here a butchers is cheaper for chicken, diced stew meat and a joint of meat.

5lbs of chicken breast is £13 and it isn't pumped full of water.
2lbs diced pork is £4
1lb of shin beef is £3
2kg beef joint is £10 ish

I find supermarket premium sausages to be nicer than the butchers and I find bacon to be more expensive at the butchers.

geordie_joe

holgate79 wrote: »

Around here a butchers is cheaper for chicken, diced stew meat and a joint of meat.

Thanks, your butcher is much cheaper than the two on my street.

holgate79 wrote: »

5lbs of chicken breast is £13 and it isn't pumped full of water.
2lbs diced pork is £4
1lb of shin beef is £3
2kg beef joint is £10 ish

I really couldn't say if those prices are good or bad for round here as I don't usually take notice of full prices. I live a minutes walk away from Morrisons so pop in and grab the reduced stuff. I just look at the meat, if I like the look of it and it's reduced enough I grab it.

holgate79 wrote: »

I find supermarket premium sausages to be nicer than the butchers and I find bacon to be more expensive at the butchers.

I usually make my own sausages but have been known to grab a cheap packet when available. I don't like Morrisons "made by us", they are too soft and seem to be all rusk/bread crumbs. I tried those 95% meat ones once, made by Bob and Debbie (or who ever) but they were just a con and half fat/grissle.

I think Morisons bacon is expensive, but it is nice and the pan doesn't fill up with white stuff when you fry it.

flitter

It depends on where you live, but have you looked for a nearby abattoir or something similar? You don't always have to buy a whole animal and the meat is usually very good quality. We have one near us and I pay £5 a kilo for a joint of beef and £2.50 a kilo for a joint of shoulder pork, sausages work out about 40p each but they are twice the length of the ones you get in Asda and they come in different varieties like pork and apple and caramelized onion. The mince is £5.50 a kilo, but because I bulk buy (we do our shopping monthly to keep costs down) they charge us £5 a kilo. They may also cut the meat into chunks for you at no extra cost ours does. We spend about £150 a month on meat and that feeds a family of 4 plus our extra 2 semi adopted kids

sniggings

We spend about £150 a month on meat and that feeds a family of 4 plus our extra 2 semi adopted kids

at nearly £38 a week on meat I hope it does feed you all :eek:

almillar

geordie joe - thanks for continuing to tear my posts to shreds. I'll try to clarify my points.
From OP's post:

anyway where is a good/cheap place to buy meat,

My answer:

Check local butchers. People work under the assumption that supermakets are cheapest for everything. Can be very un-true!

Does that work now with a bit more context?

can does mean are!

No, can means can. Maybe, Could be, might be. Are would imply WILL DEFINITELY be. I did not mean that, nor did I say it. I've no idea how much your local butcher charges, and prices can go up and down all the time, so I couldn't possibly make a definitive statement saying every local butcher is cheaper for everything than every supermarket all the time.
My point was not to ASSUME that supermarkets are cheaper. They make profit somewhere, and can afford to run some stuff at a finer margin, to get attention, and get people in the door.

Anyway, the bit I was really replying to was this

Yeah, again, see the word 'could' - there are good local butchers and bad ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. I answered the OP's price question in the first sentence, and this one added more, related information. Is that OK?

I don't eat horse burgers...

You make some valid points here. I'm not trying to put down what other people eat or what choices they make, and I was deliberately being dramatic with the horse meat to make a point. Point being, if you're eating less traceable stuff (I'll not say cheaper, let's say there IS such a thing as cheap and traceable), then how do you know what's in it? It can't be traced! This happened, remember?!! But you go one step further and say you don't care to read anything on the label - fine by me, seriously, but YOU must understand that some people DO want to know these things.
Do you just look for the CHEAPEST everything, or do you want the best VALUE?

Mrs_Cheshire

I got some great bargains at Morrisons today, they were reducing loads of meat to 50% off when I arrived so I did a couple of trips back to the display to get it as they added more. One piece of beef brisket was reduced to £1.55 from £7 something, think they must have scanned another piece and then added the label to the wrong bit but I'm not complaining. That will do us ( 2 adults and 2 small children) two meals, as I've cut it in two.
This time of year they tend to have more meat that gets reduced!

maman

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

You will find lamb more expensive than other meats. For slow cooking, look for lamb shoulder or breast.

Lamb breast makes a lovely roast if you don't mind it fatty (I love it). It's probably one of the cheapest cuts. In SM's they generally come ready rolled. I unroll mine, add cheapo packet stuffing, then re-roll. With all the trimmings, it makes a fantastic roast dinner.

I've seem some good looking lamb chops in Farmfoods that I'm going to try in the New Year when freezer space allows. Probably start with a hotpot and see how they taste.