Best-value "value" meat

Pretani

freebiequennie wrote: »

we have the asda smart price bacon joints and they are fine sometimes worth soaking for a couple of hours before cooking

Good tip. I just boil mine as sometimes it can be quite salty. The occasional one I've had to boil twice because it was so salty. Yummmmmy

Penelope_Penguin

silvercharming wrote: »

I can't stand supermarket meat, usually, but I'm totally broke and needs must and all that...

Have you thought about eating meat-free a couple of days a week I've started doing this and it's great for the health as well as the purse

I'll add this to the existing "Value Meat" thread to keep ideas together

Penny. x

Bunny200

I often have gammon joints, I boil them and then make soup with the stock. We had a Tesco Value one the other day and it was grim, we usually have a Tesco ordinary one but same as you thought I'd save a bit more but I didn't enjoy it. I usually love gammon but it was a little 'grisely' and tough so I won't be doing that again. HTH!!

Larumbelle

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions. I don't really have a Lidl or Co-op in easy walking distance, but may be passing both later this week so I'll check in them, as they're better value by the sounds of things. If not, I'm heartened that you think they're alright, JackieO, but I'm still not sure if it's for me! It's one for and one against so far.

Pen-Pen, I do get what you're saying. What I'd really like is to opt for better quality meat still, just in small quantities. It's funny, since OH saw HF-W's programme he's finally understood why I won't buy cheap chickens, but he still doesn't seem to equate that it's the same with other animals too. But the poor thing is fed up with chicken and veggie meals, he does work very hard to provide for us so it would be nice to give him a treat. And I guess I should be grateful that he did went onto mysupermarket.co.uk to 'research' some affordable meat, bless him!

ascot64

I buy the Tesco Value gammon joints every week and boil and slice for sarnies. Not had a bad one yet. Heaps better than plastic ham and better value.

Olliebeak

We had lamb's liver tonight - cost 68p. It was very tender - plenty for the two of us with mash, 4 carrots and a lonely parsnip with onion gravy! Think it would have stretched to serve three with extra veg.

Larumbelle

Oooh now you have given me an idea Olliebeak! Because we do like offal, but I would only ever buy it from the butcher, not the supermarket. I think I might pay my lovely butcher a visit! I think liver and black pud would do the jobby nicely for OH's craving! There's also a little Irish bakery on the same street, she'll make you a pie if you take her your pie dish I could probably get a pie and some liver for the same price as that gammon, and give OH a treat, and not have to buy meat that I'd really rather not!

hex2

I bought a Tesco gammon joint last week, not a value one but one of their 'discounter' ranges that was roughly the same price per lb. Very nice it was - I did pick out the least fatty looking one, and I cooked it in full sugar coke.

Pretani

hex2 wrote: »

........and I cooked it in full sugar coke.

You did what?

Larumbelle

Nigella Lawson does it too, Pretani. I did that once but wasn't keen. It's kind of like brown sugar glaze, but with additives :rotfl: