Cheapest meat hunt

evil_leaper

So, with the new self employed grant barely covering one month’s mortgage, it’s time for Uber belt tightening.
So where’s the best places to get the cheapest meat? I’m thinking supermarkets and am looking to compare chicken (breast and otherwise), beef, pork and lamb mince or otherwise, at a price per kg. Ideally fresh because frozen tends to be 50% water, but please correct me if I’m wrong.
Could be useful for many of us to know who sells what meat at what price. Local butchers, unless a chain, are not relevant because this should be a list that is accessible to most. Hope you can help.

sarah1972

It all depends on so many things: 

What supermarkets do you have near you ?
What supermarkets deliver to you?

Do you want free range or organic?

Can you buy in bulk ?
Prices change daily so a list will be forever changing.

Consider online suppliers like muscle food etc 

jon81uk

Pad out meals with tins of pulses/beans or other cheap plant proteins. Cheaper to cut down on meat.

Personally I would avoid some of the cheap meat, particularly chicken breast as it can be tough and very poor quality. But avoiding breast and getting thigh and similar can be cheaper if you really want chicken.

MrsStepford

For first five years of marriage, we were really poor. We hunted down offers at every supermarket and compared prices. Yellow stickers on actual food not chocolate mousse. Didn't buy snacks other than nuts. Foraged for blackberries, elderberries, damsons and made our own jam. Had an allotment. But even so, meat, fish and poultry were too expensive to have regularly. We ate a lot of soya mince/chunks with pasta or rice eg curry, lasagne, goulash, shepherd's pie, spag bog. We hauled ourselves up by our bootstraps but five years eating so much pasta, rice and soya gave me Type 2 diabetes. 

I would suggest better to buy mince on offer and bung in freezer, then make your own burgers, rather than buying cheap burgers. Also, pretty easy to make oven chips with spuds and swede. Eggs are great. You can get 10 for £1 in Poundland. Cereals are expensive.

 If you live in/near the country, look out for stalls for eggs, veg, honey, jam. 

arnoldy

Also consider tinned corned beef. About £1.60 a tin at Lidl. One tin can make a good hash with potatoes and parsley, served with baked beans.