cheaper cuts of meat

puddy

and what sort of prices should I look for.

There is a chain of local family butchers where we live but they seem very expensive. However, supermarkets dont tend to do things that I have read about like shin of beef or ox tail. I dont know if its worth sourcing these out and paying the same prices as bog standard diced stewing beef in the supermarket?

I dont eat pork but lamb, beef and chicken I would like to know what bits to look for.

shellsuit

Shin beef and breast of lamb are both cheap.

puddy

for example on their website they have rabbit at about £12 per kilo!! i thought rabbit was meant to be cheap?

quintwins

ham hock is lovely aswell

puddy

shellsuit wrote: »

Shin beef and breast of lamb are both cheap.

yes, i noticed the breast of lamb seemed to be about 2.50 a kilo, is that right? but the picture just looked like it was a load of skin and no meat?

shin of beef was 6.50 a kilo, which i didnt think was particularly cheap

puddy

quintwins wrote: »

ham hock is lovely aswell

i dont like pork or ham type things, unless they are sausages or sort of continental. i dont like the hammy, porky taste.

robin

Sainsburys have beef joints half price at the moment, vacuum packed ones at £4.99 per kilo. We stock up on these and roast them, then freeze the leftovers so works out really cheap.

puddy

what ive learnt reading this section is that a lot of these cheap deals are only achievable with freezing lots of the stuff. we have a really small freezer and cant afford to replace it and dont have the space for anything bigger so a lot of these ideas about buying in bulk pass us by

quintwins

vacuum packed roasts will keep for longer than normal meat (i might go get some now you've mentioned it)

rabbit is quite expensive as is phesant and duck, i get mine free well not free we have to pay gun club membership and cartridges but we'd be paying that anyway as it's his hobby and he works hard so wuldn't deprive him of it unless we are really skint free meat is a bonus

notatvstar

Breast of lamb, neck of lamb (not neck fillet) are (I think) the 2 cheapest cuts of lamb. Beef - shin, skirt or oxtail. These cuts have to be cooked slowly so find special recipes... they taste GREAT though. Pork fillet is usually fairly cheap as well (I think - might be wrong)... What I usually do is I buy bacon off-cuts at our local farm shop (I think you can get them in most supermarkets now - but I feel I can't buy supermarket meat any more for animal cruelty reasons... sorry - that's just me...).

You can get 3 days worth of main meals out of a medium size chicken - 2 very greedy adults). Sunday roast. (Just eat the breast meat). Monday chicken fried rice or stir fry (legs, olives, thighs) and Chicken soup on Tuesday (crack bones, boil carcass add veg! - simples:))

... no freezers were opened during the course of this message I also have a weird thing about frozen meat.