Your views on Cheap food.....

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60s sounds young for CJD.. but the disease was known about well before BSE was as it can be a spontaneous occurance - not linked to BSE. The CJD outbreak a few years ago typically effected people between their teens and 30s... the 'classical' CJD effects old people

MrsE_2

Sallyrms

Sorry for your family to have such a rare & awful thing to happen to your aunt.
Totally agree about would rather have a little bit of the good stuff than a lot of rubbish.
I believe their is a post of the month thread somewhere.
I'm going to nominate yours (if you don't mind) as I think its fantastic advice from someone who has the knowledge & experience to know what they are talking about.
x

Marishka

I have to say I'm regularly astonished by the meat-with-every-meal attitude, I'm sure I'd die if I ate that much. The way I was brought up, meat was considered a luxury and I was aware that we were lucky to be sufficiently well off to have it pretty often - probably 5 nights a week, but we also didn't have huge amounts of it, a meal would be about 1/5 meat and the rest various veg. We ate our fair share of unhealthy stuff as mum was a great one for keeping up with the times and ready meals were the great new thing but as soon as I began to cook we went back to home-prepared as it was the only way to teach me how to a)cook and b)buy the stuff I needed to do so. We never bought meat at supermarkets and, in the 20 years between our last old butcher closing and our first new one opening, ordered our meat in advance from farms my Dad found during the course of his business travels. When I left home and tried buying some supermarket meat i couldn't bring myself to eat more than a few mouthfuls as it either tasted of nothing or chemicals and haven't bought any since unless I run out of butchers scraps for the dogs. The first time I tried it on the dogs they turned their noses up and they're Lurchers - you should see the things they eat. Well, perhaps you shouldn't!
I think animal and human welfare go hand in hand here - better conditions for the animal and human killing produce better quality food for us - who loses? As a nation I think we should be eating less meat and individually, there are so many ways of making it go further, from using the cheaper cuts to making soups from the bones and stews and terrines from the scraps. The amount wasted nationally (by industry, not just individuals) is nothing short of criminal really.

Angelina-M

I've also done both ends of the scale. When I was first married I hardly had the money to buy food so we would eat meals like sausage and mash with the cheapest nastiest sausages ever.

Now I only eat meat from places like farmers markets. Meat doesn't have to be organic for me, I just want it to have had a happy enough life and been slaughtered in a respectful way.

I also think we should respect the animal and all that we buy should be used. I hate the thought that an animal should die for us to eat and then end up in the bin because we let it go out of date or didn't use it all up. Stews and stocks should be made to use up every little bit.

As I grew older and my opinions and budget changed, I realised that food is a luxury so now we have smaller cuts of happy meat and I do things like real gravy and use a little bit of cream in the mash spuds. Just little things that make a meal taste extra nice. That way the family sit down and enjoy each mouthful instead of guzzling down a huge dinner then back to watching the TV.

I enjoy cooking and its a hobby so I like to present it nicely, just like a card maker for example, they wouldn't chuck a design on a card and expect to sell it. I like my family to come in for meals and look pleased with what they are getting!