Do you buy your meat in a butchers or supermarket

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I normally just buy in Tesco alongside my groceries but I think the quality just hasn't been a good lately. I'd be prepared to pay more if it ment better quality. What's your thought?

Supermarket because there are only two butchers in my town and they are both terrible. The meat is worse quality than the supermarket (sausages packed full of rusk and gristle, chops and chicken full of water and additives, nothing free range etc) and they seem to be more about offering huge value packs of cheap meat rather than good quality meat.

I do sometimes go to the farm shop or get a box delivered, but mostly buy in the supermarket

Butcher.

Butchers, that's what he's there for.

Our local butcher is extortionate! Last time I went there I bought 2lbs of pork sausage and 4 chicken burgers and it came to £28! There’s no way I could afford to buy all our meat from there, even though it is much nicer.

I get mine straight from the abattoir, courtesy of my son in law.
The best tasting meat ever.

Butcher, but we are in a livestock farming area so it's generally reared fairly locally.

I’ve tried to buy from butchers but have found it so much more expensive so we stick to supermarket.

Butcher, he has a physical shop but also a Facebook page so i send my order in and his dad delivers free if in a certain radius.

Cheaper than the supermarkets and is far superior quality.

I probably order about £100 worth every 3 months. Family of 3.

Butchers but get it delivered. Have a chest freezer so I'll buy 1/2 a lamb or 1/2 a pig and stick it all in the freezer.

We now eat a lot less meat but what we do eat is high quality and high welfare.

There are very few shops left in my village. One is the butchers. I try to buy all meat from there to support them.

Morrisons mainly for mine. I don't exactly rate it but I get my shopping delivered and don't even know where a nearby butcher shop is. If I had one nearby I wld def use it.

I hate the square sausage at the supermarket and I've heard the chicken breasts are much better at the butchers. If I pass a butchers I usually go in and get some stuff.

There used to be one at local shopping centre but think it didn't reopen after covid and same with an even closer butchers. Which is a shame as their stuff was good.

Butcher, although the so-so ones are no better than supermarket. The good ones have mostly been around for forever and are very transparent about where they source from.

But I lived in Central Sweden for several years and butchershops aren't a thing there. Ended up going semi-vegetarian as pork tenderloin from industrially bred, anorexic beasts injected with brine for greater weight didn't really appeal.

The supermarket. The last time I bought from the butcher it cost twice as much but I thought it was good quality so I bought quite a lot to freeze. Everything was off when I defrosted it.

I have shopped at Tesco too, but now buy fish & bread from Waitrose and meat from the butcher.

I swapped when some of Tesco's bacon had so much water added that it was impossible to fry without draining it half way through 🙁 The butcher's price/lb is more but after water is taken into account, it is no more expensive and tastes better.

Supermarket but I'm in Italy.
Wouldn't touch a butcher's.
Supermarket meat is all labelled with where it's from etc. Butchers are a free for all and there have been lots of cases of illegal slaughtering going on, illegal exports of live animals from Romania etc.

I buy better quality from the supermarket but less of it.

From a mobile butcher who parks his lorry up locally.
We did have a butchers shop but the original butcher retired and his employee bought the business but couldn't make it pay.

I go to the local butchers. He’s not cheap but I’m lucky that I have the option. I prefer to eat less but better quality meat.

We are lucky where we live (London), have a pick of butchers within walking radius, also an amazing fishmonger. Much easier now I wfh and can pop out in my lunch break and pick up meat, fish, and vegetables (the grocer is next to the fishmonger and they have everything, including unusual spices etc).

I’ve tried butchers - if they’re good they’re hellishly expensive. If they’re the same price as the supermarket; the quality is abysmal. I couldn’t eat the butcher sausages, they were like mush.

I mostly use deerbox, occasionally local farms.

Butcher. I go to different ones depending where I shop. The good ones have queues and are on first name terms with their customers. A couple of the butchers have their own herd of cows and/or sheep and that's the source. Genuinely is a difference

Both supermarket and online Dorset Meat.

Butcher. Only buy meat a few times per month and stick to buying locally.

Butcher in local farm shop, cheaper, better quality, tastier and I can get exactly what I want.

This. I shop in two towns. Both have proper butchers and there are farm shops too. Both butchers have queues, especially in the morning, and the butchers are as helpful with careful suggestions to the pensioners wanting small amounts of cheaper cuts as they are to anyone who comes in wanting a whole fillet of aged beef. One has exquisite skills and is comparable to the best French butchers, for eg a rack of lamb: expensive, but not stupidly so. The other is 20% cheaper, and the butchery is less technical, but their bacon and sausages win awards.

I also use farm shops: one only sells their own free range pork. The butchery skills are dreadful, but the meat is brilliant quality and reasonably priced. And there's another very glossy farm shop. Their meat is shockingly expensive and the butchery skills are deplorable but it's a magnet for tourists.