What meat for slow cooker??

lollyred1

hi there was just wondering what cheapish cuts of meat i can use in slow cooker, go onto SMP next month and want to have a fully stocked freezer for next couple months that doesnt cost a fortune. Thank you

Rikki

The Complete Slow Cooker Collection Plenty of ideas there.

Mrs_A_4

Stewing steak/braising steak or anything else that comes in a biggish tray for under a couple of quid!

Shoulder or breast of lamb are fatty in a roast but good in SC.

Debt_Free_Chick

lollyred1 wrote: »

hi there was just wondering what cheapish cuts of meat i can use in slow cooker, go onto SMP next month and want to have a fully stocked freezer for next couple months that doesnt cost a fortune. Thank you

Best to speak to your butcher - supermarkets really don't carry a sufficient range of thrifty cuts of meat. And some of them have become "fashionable", with the supermarkets cashing in on this (lamb shank, springs to mind).

Butcher might also do you a deal, if you are stocking up the freezer.

Beef
Leg, flank, shin, oxtail, silverside, topside, skirt, neck/clod (often sold as stewing steak), chuck & brisket.

Lamb
(Might pay you to buy half a lamb, jointed, from the butcher)

Some cuts are the same parts of the animal as beef, but often called by different names.
Shanks (!), shin (not a lot of meat, though), breast (can be fatty, but can be skimmed off), scrag end, neck. Shoulder would also work well, but probably too pricey to be considered as "thrifty" - ask the butcher of price per kilo and compare with other cuts.

Pork
Hand (actually part of the leg!), hock, trotters(!), belly

If you know anyone who keeps a number of chickens, you might be able to get cockerels too. My neighbour lets me have 3 for £5!!!!