Best-value "value" meat

Money_saving_Diva_2

I too buy value meat but not value chicken since Hugh F-W showed me the error of my ways. I don't buy any chicken products either unless the packet says free range. Value beef etc is fine in a slow cooker and I also buy the value bacon. Tescos value frozen mince cooks and tastes fine - less texture than fresh but you get used to that. I wouldn't swap back now.

Diva.x

Penelope_Penguin

We had a thread on value meat last year. The phrase "value meat" still makes me shudder :eek:

I'll add this one to that later.

Penny. x

floyd

I don't buy meat from the supermarket, although we eat very little meat anyway I always buy it from the farmers market or local butcher who can tell me exactly where something has come from.
It may cost me more but I would rather have 6 veggie meals a week and one meat dish made with a quality product that has been ethically treated than buy meat that has been inported from places with much less strict welfare standards.

The last time I bought beef from the supermarket, it was bright red, slimy and tasted of nothing. The braising steak I bought last week from my butcher was burgundy, relatively dry to touch and produced the most wonderful steak pies.

If it came down to it that I couldn't afford to buy meat where I do now, I would go without.

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

The word "VALUE" on a packet of meat just says to me "all the horrible bits we couldn't put in the non-value packs" I feel the same way about "re-formed" meat - bleurrrrggghhh!

lauren_1

We still buy value meat apart from sausages, we do buy some value chicken but a whole chicken rather than the artificially inflated breasts.

Lilycharlotte

I don't buy and would never buy value meat.

It's about the only thing I wouldn't.

When I starting seeing my OH we went shopping together, first food shop together. He picked up a bag of frozen chicken... bits?? I said NO what are you doing??? They have come all the way from... *checks label* BRAZIL?!?! :eek:

Meat is expensive sometimes, but I would rather, like the poster before, have veggie meals and decent meat less often than cheap meat from some far flung corner of the world.

My OH has since learnt the errors of his ways

Pipkin

Well, I bought some value meat from Mr T's last time I went shopping.

Lamb stewing steaks, and after doing them in the SC I can honestly say they were delicious.

It wasn't nasty little scrag ends of meat. they were big proper steaks.

I can understand the reluctance with chicken, for the way the birds are reared, but I'm not sure I'd understand the reluctance with say lamb or beef.

Please don't all shout at me at once, I do have a heart.

kr15snw

I dont buy value chicken just for the ethical reasons.

Honestly never thought youd find me only buying free range chicken, but hey I do now! lol

scottishgal_2

I understood that the value beef isn't so dear because it's not hung so long, hanging the meat takes time and time costs money..... so that's why it's so red in colour, hence it'll be tougher than the longer hung darker meat, that's why I slow cook it.

I've once bought value chicken portions, and I don't know what it is but I never seem to enjoy it because of what I read, even though it tastes the same..... there's something about chicken!!

kr15snw

Scottishgal: The something about chicken for me is the fact I have a pet bird. I always remember seeing Hugh and Jamies programmes and thinking 'that could be my baby...'

But Ill still eat it...

Im weird.... lol