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.

I've often looked at places like Muscle Food. Are they any good?

£90-£110

Yellow stickers at Waitrose £50-£60

I think I need to try muscle food. I've seen adverts where it's buy 1 hamper another free.

Muscle foods tend to be not particularly ethical meat, or at least it was when I looked at them.

Personally I wouldn’t buy from them

*ChariotsofFish

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

We quite often buy a large whole chicken and it does about 3 meals - meat for our Sunday roast, chicken salad and then something like a pasta or bulgar wheat based meal that we add the chicken too. That's for two adults and a toddler although to be fair our toddler doesn't eat much if any of the chicken.
If it's a good quality chicken then it doesn't sound mad to me to stretch 3 or 4 meals out of it.

Apologies for the typos/missing punctuation!

Considering I rarely eat meat I'm impressed I guessed £150 too.

That lot would last us about 4 years. I can't afford to eat much organic meat so we eat very little.

@PrimrosePhantasm then don't eat expensive cuts of meat!! Jesus Christ, I'd get cheap cuts from a decent butcher or go vegetarian, it's obscene to say that animals should go through horrendous suffering so that everyone can afford whatever meat they fancy.

I would love to know how to get 3-4 meals out of a chicken!

I have me, dd (18) and DS (20) to cater for. I have one breast, DS has the other, dd has the drumsticks and wings because they're her favourite. I might get a couple of sandwiches out of what's left if I'm lucky.

Floofy, Google rubber chicken, so called because you're making it stretch! It's broadly, have some as a roast for meal 1, sandwiches/cold meat/casserole or curry as meal 2, and boil carcass for soup for meal 3.

That's a lot of mince and sausages. At the most I'd pay £85 unless it's local etc then I'd go to £110 tops.

Please, please all these people who are saying you can get all that free range, high welfare meat for under a £100, where are you getting your meat from.
I guessed a lot more based on sainsburys where free range, not organic is three times the price of ordinary meat.

Be around £70-90 at my local butchers in the North

Around £100

I love Muscle Foods- beef is mainly grass fed, lean chicken and turkey are red tractor assured. No added water or salt unlike a lot of supermarket meat. Freezes well and the chicken breasts are massive from regulated family farms. The beef meets Assured Food and Quality standards. Etc etc.

Just google for bulk meat order and loads of companies come up. If you're cutting out the middle man of shops, and selling the entirety of your carcases in various bulk deals, it keeps the price down hugely.