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?

We go to our local butcher where DH gets a piece of steak so big he cuts it into 3 pieces, gamon, bacon and chicken breast. So much nicer and better quality than the supermarket.

Supermarkets have very little choice of cuts. I get general meat mince, chicken, etc, from supermarket and 'proper' meat from online butchers, my local butcher that I'd used for many years went out of business unfortunately.

Indoor farmers market (white row in Frome) or The butchers in corsham - we go specially- I buy my veg there as well

Tesco and costco however i am going to start monthly bulk buying to see if more cost effective so will use butcher

I like getting them from the butcher which is directly next door but they are very expensive. Does make you cut down on your meat use though

Mostly the butcher and we know where it has come from too. The quality is far superior to any supermarket meat we've had apart from some of the M&S stuff. It's a bit more expensive, but as a family of three we buy for three people rather than four which is better.

The rule of thumb, so I was once told, is that you buy cheap meat in a posh butcher, and the prime cuts in a cheap area. The whole carcass costs the same price and the profit is generally similar, but the profit is made at the either end of the range. Burgers, mince and sausages will be cheaper in the posh area (but choose a good butcher, because they will be more inventive/foodie in the preparing and presenting). Buy your roasting joints in the cheaper parts of cities, because they have fewer customers who can afford to buy them. Game birds are cheap everywhere in the country because the profit is made from shooting them.

Have gone to our excellent local butcher for 25 years now. They are more expensive but the supermarkets just can't compare on quality.

I buy direct from the local farmer!

Supermarkets, mainly. Good butchers are few & far between here in the East Midlands, and most of them are quite traditional / old fashioned, opening for very limited hours, which isn’t convenient for those of us who work FT. I would like to buy more from them, but in order to do so I need them to be more flexible in their opening hours.

Trading from 9-4 on weekdays plus a couple of hours on a Saturday morning suggests they are trapped in an outdated mindset, with ‘housewives’ as their target market.

Both.

The butcher is generally better quality, albeit dearer. It's more stretch/padding out friendly too, iyswim. However, sometimes we end up using the supermarket because it's the one that's open.

I really dislike buying supermarket meat, so I tend to buy from a local butcher.

I sympathise @BarelyLiterate but both of our trusted butchers have had to cut their opening hours since Covid, and one has always closed for lunch. They both struggle to get apprentices to learn the skills. DH often does the meat shop because he goes to the industrial estate for deliveries and pick ups when he's out and about, for his whole workshop. It doesn't work for working women in big cities, I agree.

Usually coop or M&S as it’s labelled welfare or free range. Local butchers do lovely free range eggs….I’ll sometimes pop in on way home. But the meat isn’t labelled where it’s from ….

a further away butcher does great home made pies, sausages And lamb and will mince steak for you etc….I’d go more often if it was closer.

Probably about 70/30. I LOVE going to the butchers, but it's really quite out of the way for me and the supermarket is closer. so it's a weekend trek to go to the butchers

Chicken from Waitrose
all other meat from a farm shop/butchers

The butchers usually. They sometimes have cuts of meat that I can't usually find in the supermarket. I also have a fish market near me and I actually find it cheaper there than the supermarket

Both, including a farm shop which has butchery there and so on. My husband has the same menus, I thrive on all sorts of recipes and things

Usually: I buy lamb hearts and dry cure bacon from the supermarket.
I buy haggis, sausages, steaks, venison and unusual stuff on line.
Chicken and lamb from a local farm.
Beef and pork from the butcher.
I do buy New Zealand lamb legs or British beef joints from the supermarket when they are half price. (In early December I filled a freezer.
It does sound like a faff or a lot of effort but actually I buy meat once or twice a month and freeze it.

I do both and prefer the local butcher but mainly supermarket for convenience as I don't drive. Saying that I get a lot of meat in Morrisons and they have their own butchers counter and the meat is British and very good quality. We had pork on Sunday from there and it was delicious, it was so soft. Their own mince is nice too because it's properly minced and not that horrible stringy stuff but they don't always have it. Won't buy sausages from the supermarket though as they're just dry and horrible compared to my local butcherr who does THE best sausages.

The supermarket, as they deliver with all my other groceries and I do not have time to be going to the butchers. Also we don’t all live in nice rural areas or market towns etc that have lovely local butchers. Some of us live in the rough end of rough cities, there are no lovely local butchers!

From the butchers. Better quality and price

Mince, chicken breast, burgers from supermarket.

sausages, beef olives, steaks, beef roast, casserole beef, steak/scotch pies from butchers. It is a pain to get to so I buy a few weeks worth and freeze. Works out not much more expensive.

I don’t get chicken from butchers as all the local ones get it in big tubs from Poland or Netherlands and it doesn’t taste any better than the supermarket British chicken.

Butcher, but it's purely out of convenience - I have to drive past the shop before I get home, plus they do more prepared meals everyone likes!

Now get my mince from a butcher... because Sainsburys started vacuum packing their mince.

They say it has no impact on the texture of their meat... but it really does. And annoys me I now have to plan visiting more shops to get my weekly/monthly shopping.