Cheap meat

[KungFuPanda]

Where do you guys stand on cheap meat? I know the cheaper the meat, the lower the quality you might expect and also the way the animal is raised is also in question. However in this economic climate, surely all families should have the option of having decent sunday dinner? I've recently received an email from my local Toby carvery offering two meals for a tenner. Surely at that price, they must be getting cheap joints of meat for their roasts.

Personally, I do go for the cheaper option. Currently, Morrisons are doing pork shoulder for £2.66 a kilo. I think they use British farmers too. A tad over a fiver will get you a 2 kilo joint which when roasted with veggies and yorkshire puddings will do a decent Sunday dinner for 4 people for under a tenner. Costco do 2 1.7kg chickens for £7 which again is pretty decent. Morrisons do 2 sirloin, rump or ribeye steaks for £7. Minimum of 225g. I've had these in the past and they've been decent. Over Easter, you could get fresh leg of lamb for £5 a kilo. A local butcher are advertising their lamb shoulder on Facebook for £9.99 a kilo. Would theirs be really twice as good as the £5 per kilo leg?

[KungFuPanda]

Trabi601 said:

I used to work in the meat and fish business.

Morrisons have a very good reputation - they stipulate very high welfare standards and you can usually guarantee everything is decent quality. Might not be the best, but for the money you can't complain. Are you sure you're right about the lamb price? I saw a fiver a kilo for shoulder, but not for leg. Shoulder is the better cut anyway...

I'd be wary of Costco, as I don't know where they source meat. I know Iceland get chicken from the Far East, so this should be avoided, as should any Danish or Dutch pork.

Lidl are pretty good, too, and mostly use British and RSPCA certified farmers, just watch that Dutch and Danish pork thing, especially on bacon (this is true for all supermarkets)

I always though Morrisons strived for high standards for the welfare of the meat they sold.

Lamb leg was definitely a fiver a kilo over Easter. Asda were doing it at that price and so were some of the budget supermarkets. I paid around £12 a leg.