How much will you pay for your meat?

Hippychick

I was just wondering how much people are prepared to spend on their Christmas dinner meat.

This year we want to have a really nice joint of beef and so far the cheapest quote for about 2.5kg of decent sirloin is £45.00:eek:

Does anyone know of any good quality online suppliers who may be more reasonable?

The cheapest good quality turkeys i've found are about £35.00 to £40.00.

There must be places to buy meat at a reasonable price surely?

SmileyS_2

Sounds about what we spend to be honest

We only buy meat from a farm shop and drive a 40mile round trip to get there once a month.Its not the cheapest option but the quality is so much better than supermarket (says me the vegetarian of the household LOL)

milkydrink

I swa a nice boneless turkey in the M&S xmas food booklet for about £30 (i think). There are only 3 of us so that should do xmas day, a sandwich each in the evening & some to go with a gammon on boxing day.
Will probably spend about £10 on a smoked gammon as well.
Three nice small steaks for boxing day breakfast too probably £6.
Maybe some smoked salmon for bagels on xmas morning.

There are only three of us.
That M&S turkey says its got 7-10 portions, I'm wondering is that enough for 6 dinners & 3 sandwiches, you know how they say a gateaux has 16 portions.......well yes if you want them wafer thin!!!

madoldbat

Hippychick sorry but this sounds correct if your using a traditional butcher.
We will have 4 duck breasts (Christmas dinner) 1 kilo cubed beef (1 curry & 1 meat & pot pie through week) 4 lamb neck fillets (braised in tomatoes/mint onions Bxing day) 1 whole leg lamb boned & rolled (New Year day lunch & cold tea ,leftoversfor during week) if I have any change from 80.00 I will think we have done well.This said my butcher can tell you the farm the animal came from how long it has hung ect.
I do think we need to use traditional shops if we can, so we have less but better quality.
We only eat this much red meat once a year.I try to make and sell enough Christmas cakes to cover the cost.
A 2 kilo cake laced with brandy (lots very boozey customers:rotfl: ) 18.00.So assuming it costs me 8.00 to make 10.00 profit need to sell 10 cakes.

Hippychick

Thanks, this is from a traditional butcher and the cows are local, well if those prices are right I won't be getting too ripped off!

It still seems very expensive for one meal, there will be five of us so will need a decent sized joint.

It' interesting to hear if there are any price differences anywhere though.

HC

kethry

i paid £35 last year for a good sized turkey (enough to feed 5), a huge leg of lamb, and enough thick cut streaky bacon to cover the turkey breast. It wasn't from a traditional butchers, though.. well.. it's from an independent butcher who owns his own shop, but not the kind who can tell you that the turkey was reared in a field next to a cow called daisy.. if you know what i mean!! we live in a poorer part of manchester so there isn't really the call for the organic type of butcher. Having said that, the butcher has done me good the last 3 years and i'll be going back there again.. i think. Not sure. He sold me a joint of beef for Easter sunday that had gone off by the time Easter Sunday came around. So may rethink it.

keth
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nearlyrich

I feed around 15 for dinner and another 7 or 8 for tea on Christmas day, we spend about £100 on fresh meat and fish which gets us a nice piece of beef rib, a large turkey crown, a port loin, a big uncooked gammon, bacon for covering the turkey breast and for the devils on horseback, cocktail sausages and a big salmon in two filllets. The gammon and the salmon are for the tea table.

We always have plenty left for sandwiches for a couple of days and I usually cube some of the beef for a curry and freeze it, the ham is great with pasta.

It seems like a lot to spend but my butcher is a farmer too and I know it's going to be great quality and I have a reputation to maintain as a good cook, that's only possible with good ingrdients.

milkydrink

I forgot about the other bits & bobs.
We normally get half a salmon to have on Xmas eve & the pigs in blankets to go with the xmas dinner.

That gets us through from xmas eve to boxing day. Only 3 of us, damn we eat too much....

PasturesNew

I usually buy the meat.
It's usually under £6.

One of those Turkey Breast Roasts - in the tin foil tray. Just bung it in the oven for 45 minutes.

Preferably from M&S if I get my way, although if my parents pick it up for me (hard to say "NO" when they make it sound like they're doing you a favour) then they'd probably try to get it in Lidl ... NOT the same!

That's is for 3 of us. 3 adults (3 meat eaters + 1 vegetarian, so makes a big nut roast).
One of these is usually enough for Xmas dinner AND still loads cold for tea or the next day.

We don't have other meats. Just that. And some years (vegetarian pressure) I've not even been 'allowed' to buy/cook that... took a lot of arguing to insist on having it most years

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

Last year i used www.johnshepparddirect.com they aren't cheap but the quality is stunning also there is www.freshmeat2u.co.uk which is cheaper and i did have some stuff off them to try and it still tasted fine..

prettypennies

The meat I have had from www.natoora.co.uk has always been very good. Their organic meat is supplied by the well hung meat company.

You can generally get £20 off your first order (£10 delivery) and 7% cash back with quidco too.