Don't leave it too late to order your Christmas meat!

[Sherbert37]

Had to order beef at the twice the price in local Waitrose for collection before Christmas. Sold out of the one I really wanted. It will be lovely but totally wasted on three 'take it or leave it' DCs. Perhaps this is due to the turkey situation? Going away and don't know of any local butchers, so thought Waitrose would be the safest bet.

what turkey situation?

DH goes up to Smithfields market with his friends every year. Its become a bit of a tradition for them to go out at 3 o'clock in the morning, get first pick of the meat and then get a full english on the way home! They are going really early in December this year, just to make sure they get some meat at a reasonable price before it goes mad.

Suzywong - Bird Flu and all that. Found on several farms which will supply supermarkets so prices are set to rocket.

oh yuck

I'm a bit scared of turkeys, live that is. Vile things. Someone once told me if they look up to the sky when it rains they drown.

So beef it is then, for you lot in the UK.

Just spent the last hour and a half sourcing out a goose. Thankfully have managed to order one from Wales . I did have one ordered weeks ago but my local butchers supply was within the area affected, and although his birds where fine they had to be destroyed. Not a very merry christmas for him nor the farmer.

I buy my meat early and freeze it, largely to avoid the queues for collection in the days just before Christmas.