Corned Beef

Steve059

missbiggles1 wrote: »

What meat can you buy that's less than £4.50 a kilo?

Chicken at £2.48/kg immediately springs to mind.

PasturesNew

Lidl Strathvale beef mince is about £3.60/Kg, sold in packs of 500g for £1.79. They do a slightly cheaper mince too, with 23% fat.
I've seen steak chunks in a similar price bracket too.

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'm not well off but I still think the prices people are quoting are pretty cheap. Even at £2 per tin to feed 3 people seems pretty reasonable.

You're better off than some people though - and those might be the people saying it's pricey. I think it's pricey. Also, £2/tin to feed 3 people is about 70p just for the meaty bit - you still have to put something else with it, unless you're making sandwiches and using 2x2p of cheap (40p/loaf) bread. Although you could use a 15p can of spuds to mix with it.

suki1964

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lidl Strathvale beef mince is about £3.60/Kg, sold in packs of 500g for £1.79. They do a slightly cheaper mince too, with 23% fat.
I've seen steak chunks in a similar price bracket too.



You're better off than some people though - and those might be the people saying it's pricey. I think it's pricey. Also, £2/tin to feed 3 people is about 70p just for the meaty bit - you still have to put something else with it, unless you're making sandwiches and using 2x2p of cheap (40p/loaf) bread. Although you could use a 15p can of spuds to mix with it.

I think its pricey, and Im not quite on the breadline

For me it was a cheap dish, a filling tea for a few pennies, now its up there with mince and chicken me thinks

The other cheapo store cupboard must have Ive noticed getting incredibly expensive is sardines. Seemed it was just last week they were 25p a can, now a decent can can be as much as a quid And Id quite happily eat a can for lunch without a thought - well now I think twice and usually pass on by

barneydee_2

I love corn beef years ago on slimming world I used to make there corned beef quiche I used to fry of a onion,mash up the corned beef with the onion, press down in to a quiche case for the top cottage cheese mixed in with eggs & pepper (didn't need salt as salt in the corned beef) then slices on toms on top baked in the over this was realy scrumy either hot or cold but of coarse because of the high fat content not free any longer on sw
Dee x

barneydee_2

Also loved corn beef hash & hm corn beef pasties, good comfort food
Dee x

ciderwithrosie_2

I prefer to buy M&S Chunky corned beef - it's not much difference in price to the other brands now and is often on offer but the quality is way better - no stringy or gristly bits in there and not too greasy.

The OH loves a corned beef hash or pasties or just in sandwiches with tomatoes, cucumber and pickle. We used to have a recipe where you sliced the corned beef and put in the oven for a bit, then added a sort of spicy tomato gravy, and cooked it a bit longer, it was lush with mashed potato and veg, wish we hadn't lost the recipe.

Feral_Moon

I've never experienced stringy or gristly bits in any tin of corned beef, regardless of where it comes from. I love corned beef hash but only tend to eat it maybe half a dozen times a year. Not through cost or any other restriction, just that I have such a wide and varied repertoire of home cooked dishes that it doesn't often come up on rotation.

It's one of my standby store cupboard meals as I always have a tin in the cupboard, alongside beans, potatoes and onions as other staple ingredients. I have to laugh when my (adult) kids come over to stay and they're like "mum, there's no food in the house" when I could adequately feed myself for a month just from the freezer and store cupboard :rotfl:

meg72

Steve059 wrote: »

Chicken at £2.48/kg immediately springs to mind.

Pork loin joint on offer 2.98

Kernow666

Murphybear wrote: »

I remember growing up in the 1950s, it was corned beef and chips for Saturday lunch. Can't believe a large tin fed 5 of us (but I was only little so didn't get much):D

Sometimes it was Spam, can you still get that?

bully beef

Stompa

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I can't imagine actually cooking with corned beef, apart from hash.

I much prefer it cooked than cold. It's pretty good in a sort of cottage pie.

Fry some onions until they are really brown, place in a dish with some crumbled up corned beef. Crumble an OXO (or better still a bovril) cube over the top, and add a little boiling water. Put some mashed potato on the top, and stick it in the oven for an hour.

I think my old mum learnt that one during the war, but it's very tasty and I still make it myself from time to time.