The price of a joint....

[reelingintheyears]

No,not that sort of joint.....

Went to get a joint of meat from TESCO and i was at the price....

£16 for a leg of lamb to feed six of us...

£13 for beef...which i bought and there's NONE left over.

Lmao @ sourdoughface

We used to have one meat free meal on a Friday when I was growing up...egg and chips but that was it.

I don't even have meat free lunches. It's always egg and bacon or egg and sausage for me.

See, egg & chips turns into ham, egg & chips at ours. And it has to be nice ham. Egg & chips was the thing when I was young.

I still wouldn't consider eating unhappy chicken or caged-hen-eggs or Danish bacon. I'd rather eat lentils.

We buy cheapo mince though.

I have no problem personally with eating miserable chicken or piggy, its just still cheaper to eat lentils than "cheap" meat!

Plus I've lost over half a stone since xmas without even trying!!!

Though I've always been pale and humourless, meat never made any difference

danthe4th - four pieces of fish for £6?? Bloody hell, wouldn't pay that.
we are eating more veggie meals here for sure - i menu plan from Friday to Friday and this week we have veggie meals in for Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
things like spaghetti and mozzarella bake - (yum, and dirt cheap), falafel burgers and pitta breads, egg and chips, and spaghetti with a lentil sauce, rather than a meat-based one.

Prefer to get our meat from local butcher and they cut what you want and will even hang a joint longer if you want etc. The meat is also very good quality and bought from suppliers - knows which farms it comes from etc. Plus they do local rabbit, vension and the like.

Try to balance the costs out - last weekend DS1 was back from Uni so 'slaughtered the fatted cow' so to speak - big rib of beef for 8 with a bit of leftovers was about £15. Its still much cheaper than going out for lunch or even a round of drinks at a pub!

I got a nice bit of brisket in Morrisons the other week. £4.50 - fed 3 (2 of which eat like horses) and there was enough left for a couple of sandwiches.

Try your local butcher - better quality and cheaper.

I buy frozen legs of lamb from Tescos - MUCH cheaper.

My dad has loads of sheep,but we can't afford to buy lamb.I did get some chops reduced to 73p from Tesco,which we ate last night,and they were lovely,I'd forgotten how good it tastes.

As soon as the grass starts growing again,I'm sending DH out with his gun for rabbit.He did shoot and cook a squirrel once,but it smelt so rank that we didn't eat it.Apparently you should slow cook it,not stir fry,like DH did.

Just so often it's worth it. A few weeks ago I bought a rolled rib of scottish beef from Sainsburys - it was divine, utterly divine and you tell it would be just by looking. It was 30 but got 6 generous hot roast beef lunches and 5 cold the next day and two rounds of sandwiches on Tuesday. It was exquisite and worth every penny.

This weekend I bought fresh mussels for 4 pounds for dinner on Saturday and we had a cheap rolled shoulder of pork on sunday which was equally delicious - so 8 dinners for 8 pounds (plus a 1/2 bottle of wine and a pot of cream).

Misleading thread title. Got me interested. You're just bloody boring!

can you buy oxtail again then? it was banned for a while because of the whole CJD thing. My dad used to make fabulous oxtail stew years ago.