Organic meat online.. does anyone buy it?

sallyrsm

and if so, where is good?

I saw www.wellhungmeat.com and they look good for mutton and stuff but does anyone have anyone they really really rate?

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graigfarm

wonderful top quality meat and customer service

mummyto3_2

Riverford does a meat box if that helps. Not tried it yet myself.

Lotus-eater

sallyrsm wrote: »

and if so, where is good?

I saw www.wellhungmeat.com and they look good for mutton and stuff but does anyone have anyone they really really rate?

We got a animal butchered for us at the weekend and I was surfing for recipes for sausages when I came across this site. I must admit I spent a good few minutes in childish laughter

lwcus78

I haven't tried online but I do go to the local farmers market and buy organic local meat. Have you been watching the chicken campaing on Channel 4? x

Caterina

Abel and Cole also do organic meat.

There is a butcher in London which I used to recommend to my clients, being very good, they do deliveries but I don't know how far, their details below:

G G Sparkes Organic Butchers
24 Old Dover Road
Blackheath
LONDON
SE3 7BT.
Tel: 0208 3558597

They have a website but it is not fully online yet.

Caterina

boo81

Used 2 companies-riverford are excellent, quality was real top notch. Save the bacon are absolutely awful.

My parents are going to try Clares organics which has excellent reviews

~Chameleon~

Just found this site which has loads of online food companies. Should be able to find something local or one that does national deliveries on there.

http://www.ukfoodonline.co.uk/index.htm

sallyrsm

I've found a local place near me, Redhill farm - they will deliver or I can pick up. They come to the farmers market in town too apparently - save on the delivery charge!

Thanks to all for the advice. And yes I have been watching about the chickens. Was tending towards organic / free range anyway, I do with milk, but someone mentioned veal and I love veal so was looking to buy online. I'll give this Redhill farm a look...

competitionscafe

I posted this in another thread but might be helpful here too: Was just a quick price comparison on 4 items from online organic and free-range meat suppliers, but also to recommend some that I have used.

Higher Hacknell: http://www.higherhacknell.co.uk/

Beef Fore Rib On The Bone (£12.00 per kg)
Topside of beef boned and rolled (£11.50 per kg)
Beef Rib Eye Steak £19.50 per kg
Whole Organic Chicken: £6.15 per kilo

Sheepdrove: http://www.sheepdroveshop.com/acatalog/catalogbody.html

Organic Beef Forerib (On the bone) £12.01 (per kilo)
Organic Beef Rolled Topside (Boned) £10.22 (per kilo) (on offer)
Organic Chicken with giblets Price: £6.99 (per kilo)

Devon Rose: http://www.devonrose.com/shoponline.aspx

Rib Of Beef Bone In £11.27 per Kg
Beef Topside: £10.64 per Kg
Beef Ribeye Steaks £19.55 per Kg
Chicken Whole: £6.51 per Kg

The Fine Beef Company: http://www.thefinebeefcompany.co.uk/
(not organic but grass fed rare breed beef (Longhorn and Dexter), hung on the bone for at least 31 days)

Beef Forerib bone-in: £11.90 per Kg
Topside: £12.90 per Kg
Beef Rib-Eye steaks: £26.00 per Kg


But I agree that price alone is not the only consideration and breed, hanging time, rearing, feed, etc, etc is important too - I haven't tried Helen Browning but have tried all 4 of the above and as well as ticking all the boxes the quality of the meat was excellent from all of them. If I was too choose a favourite of the 4 it would be Higher Hacknell as they offer a good variety (beef, chicken, pork and lamb) - all delicious, particularly the chicken and the beef. However Polly at the Fine Beef Co does excellent beef too and their customer service is great.

The Real Meat company is also very good and supplies a few butchers, worth checking their website too see if there is a stockist near you. Natoora is also good (meat from Jack O' Shea butcher and Well Hung Meat), the 'dry aged' Black Angus beef from Jack O' Shea is delicious if you like your beef nicely aged/hung! The Natoora email newsletter always has a free £10 voucher which basically means you get free delivery and there is a bit of Quidco cashback too which effectively gives a small extra discount.

I have also heard good reports about Daylesford Organic and Providence Farm - but not tried either of them yet, unfortunatley Providence Farm charge £9 extra for delivery to Scotland, so won't be able to justify that but Daylesford are offering free delivery on 1st order so might give them a go.
http://www.providencefarm.co.uk/
http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/

Donald Russell are okay for beef and their chickens are nice but their meat is overpriced generally (non of it is organic and the pork only meets the basic RSPCA standard), too much (unnecessary) fancy packaging too. I do sometimes get their whole chickens when they have a free delivery offer as it's useful to have in the freezer but price has gone up from £14 to £16 for 2 chickens to £19 for 2.

Also agree that it's worth using bigbarn.co.uk etc or google to find local suppliers, farm shops etc as prices there may be lower especially when you factor delivery costs of online shops into it - always good to find and support your local organic/free-range farmers too. And yes organic is only one consideration, non organic meat can be raised to as good as or even better standards and some of the very small producers may not wish to register as organic for various reasons including cost.

lil_me

I can tell you who I would never use again, which is Goodness Direct. I ordered from them last year, the order arrived half frozen half not (I ordered all fresh) some of the sausages were frozen half way through the packet, some of the products already stank, they told me 'just freeze it, it'll be fine' well I did with what didn't stink incase it could be saved, although the food safety rules around this told me not to in my head, it stank when defrosted and was binned. Took me 3 weeks to get a refund. Never again!

Sticking with my local farm shop after learning the lesson from trying elsewhere!