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How much will you pay for your meat?

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  • daveyjp
    daveyjp Posts: 13,549 Forumite
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    I suggest a joint of rib of beef rather than sirloin. We went away last weekend and I did Sunday lunch. A forerib large enough for 4 people (two ribs) was £13 from a proper butcher. It weighed over 2kg.

    You can pay what you like for turkey, but £25 for a fresh one isn't unusual. We prefer free range chicken and will spend up to £10 for one.
  • RHYSDAD
    RHYSDAD Posts: 2,346 Forumite
    Hippychick wrote: »
    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
    Hippy, you are just not going to get the equation of;

    Decent, good quality meat + cheap = A satisfactory answer, to add up.

    If you don't want to spend lots, go to the supermarket and buy low to medium grade quality food. It is Christmas, presumably you Moneysave all year so splash out and taste what good quality food should be like!! Enjoy:T
    "Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

    Chinese Proverb


  • There are 3 adults and 2 young children eating here on Christmas and Boxing day.

    I get the butter basted turkey from M&S for £22 (mum pays), it feeds 10 so it lasts us both days AND we have enough left for sandwiches.

    :T
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  • There are 3 adults and 2 young children eating here on Christmas and Boxing day.

    I get the butter basted turkey from M&S for £22 (mum pays), it feeds 10 so it lasts us both days AND we have enough left for sandwiches.

    :T
    That sounds more like it!
    I just buy one in Iceland ot Tesco personally. Buter basted too. I get it when its on offr-usually early at half normal price. I generally spend about £12. I cook so much for dinner we need nothing until boxing day and usually only want sanwiches and buffet food.
    Annual Grocery budget 2018 is £1500 pa £125 calendar month £28.84 pw for 3 adults
  • Ishtar
    Ishtar Posts: 1,045 Forumite
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    We usually get a free range frozen turkey from Waitrose - I think last year's was £18. There's only two of us and a toddler, so we get the smallest we can. Even then there's loads left over!

    All other meat comes as a present from my parents - they have an account with a fantastic butcher (that sounds a bit fancy, but really all it means is they win meat vouchers at the bingo!), so I'm pretty much let loose in the shop! We usually have a gammon joint, sausages, bacon, etc, from there.

    D.
  • daveyjp wrote: »
    I suggest a joint of rib of beef rather than sirloin.

    Agree with this. Even boned & rolled, rib will be far tastier, just as tender and about £10 per kilo cheaper than sirloin. (If organic. If not, then the price difference will probably be a little less e.g. £7-8 per kilo)
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  • we buy our turkey from my works... i think it serves around 6 and its only £23 plus i get two free bootles of wine and 12.5% discount :D we do have a small beef on boxing day but we get that from my mothers work for about £9 and we get 10% there too :D
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    It makes me look kinda mean but then there is usually only me to cook for - I bought my Christmas dinner last week. I have as organic, free-range chicken from my traditional butcher and it cost me £6.50 as well as a lovely piece of rib-eye steak that cost me a fiver.

    The chicken won't go to waste - I'll have some as my main meal, some cold, some meat made into a pie, the carcass will then be boiled with some carrots, onion, celery and herbs to make a stock which will be used for soup.

    To be honest meat from a traditional butcher is far nicer than the stuff you get in the supermarket.
  • milkydrink
    milkydrink Posts: 2,407 Forumite
    Horace wrote: »
    It makes me look kinda mean but then there is usually only me to cook for - I bought my Christmas dinner last week. I have as organic, free-range chicken from my traditional butcher and it cost me £6.50 as well as a lovely piece of rib-eye steak that cost me a fiver.

    The chicken won't go to waste - I'll have some as my main meal, some cold, some meat made into a pie, the carcass will then be boiled with some carrots, onion, celery and herbs to make a stock which will be used for soup.

    To be honest meat from a traditional butcher is far nicer than the stuff you get in the supermarket.

    If truth be told, I much prefer chicken to turkey.
  • It looks as though it will be about £100
    all organic. Turkey, beef joint, gammon, sausagemeat, bacon, sausages
    It`s ordered!!

    We`ll eat well over christmas week but the leftovers will be carefully frozen and eeked out in january and I`m talking giblet soup and good stock from the carcass + pea and ham soup etc
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