How much would you pay for this meat order?

[Nuttyaboutnutella]

Having a chat with a friend and she couldn't get over the cost of our recent meat order. It seems perfectly reasonable to me. I use a local butchers who are fab. All the meat is local (they rear their own pork and beef, lamb is farm next door and chickens are also local), and all high-welfare, very high quality, grass fed, free range, etc.

Our recent order consisted of:
3kg of beef mince
1kg of turkey mince
1.5kg of sausage meat/pork mince
8 sausages
14 chicken thighs
2 whole large chickens
20 chicken breasts
A beef joint (topside) to feed 6 people

Just curious how much you would pay for this order? Oh and to add, this is to prepare some meals ready for when our baby arrives next month and the rest will easily see how through for at 2-3 months.

@mykingdomforbrie or lack of money means they have no choice

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From a good butcher who sources from ethically reared animals, about £300.

£150?

£195 at a minimum allowing for a discount for bulk buying. I think some posters are forgetting that is all high welfare, free range meat.

£180 - £200 but if it’s also organic could be much much higher?

Please don’t leave us in suspense ....

To put this in perspective, my DH today suggested by email that we try eating crunchy crickets as part of an 'ethical' diet. They are between £6.99 and £10.99 for a tub of 55 grams. This was my reply;

£6.99 for 55 grams?
Are you insane?
That's £128 a kilo.
Comparison - your goat's cheese is about £13 a kilo. Chicken about £12. Cod about £14. Lentils about £2 a kilo.

You may want to try them, but the idea of incorporating them into our diet at that price is just not viable. You might as well eat gold. And on Amazon, same ones, £4 more per pack. Which brings them up to just shy of £200 a kilo (by less than a decimal point).

Think again chuck!
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I'll stop there.

Not had a reply yet...

The way forward, op -

(Tip - wear a pair of harem trousers)

I’m going to guess £200 assuming quality but a local/low transport/not London set-up.

@VanillaCoconutDove you pay HOW MUCH for 8 sausages?!!!?

I would probably say from a supermarket £100 to £120, so when you buy from an ethically sourced butcher you are looking at about £170 to £200 IME

£150-£165

Way too invested in this. Come back OP!

@FiremanKing

Can you put us out of our misery?

Agree Purple topside is not a nice cut! Although I’m not a fan of silverside either, much prefer a rib myself 😋

I think the vegans got her.

Agreed @Dowser £50 from my local butchers here in the NE

Meat is super cheap in the Uk from these numbers.

As a comparison, I went to the supermarket locally this morning and bought some bits for a barbeque tomorrow.. €5.50 (£4.80) = 4 sausages, €14 (£12.10) = 6 chicken thighs, €7 (£6) = 350g beef mince.

I trust the OP has a good enough reason for not updating like she has had her baby a month early and it turned out to be triplets not one.

120

@FlowersInMotion

Sorry everyone was not expecting so many replies! Been out this afternoon then started packing my bag ready for hospital.

Loving the range of guesses (£55-300)

It came to £150 exactly (think he rounded it down for us).

And for a few comments, this is specifically what I asked for, to make to meals for the freezer and meals for next month. It's a fuckton of chicken and mince I'm aware but I couldn't be bothered to think of a ton of different meals when I'm heavily pregnant and also have a toddler. All what I'm fancying is chicken based meals.

So far, we've got 30 meatballs, 14 burgers, 10 servings of Bolognese, 4 chilli, 4 sausage Ragu, 12 sausage rolls out of that, plus meals to make for the next month or two. Whole chickens will each easily do us 3-4 family meals but extra for sandwich/salads. Chicken breast are bloody huge (and don't shrink on cooking) so two breasts are more than enough to feed 2 adults and a toddler in a curry (I can stretch to one of I bulk it out with chickpeas, spinach, etc).

Been interesting to read the guesses.

With servings I mean 10 will do us for 10 Meals between me, DP and a two year old.

Where do you live WalterIris - that's expensive.

3-4 family meals out of a chicken . You should have mentioned they were MN magic chickens before people guessed.