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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge

... are so bloody expensive these days! I thought I would get a nice bit of shin beef for a slow cooked chilli, £9.20/kg! Silverside and topside of beef, £7/kg. It's crazy! Whatever happened to the cheap cuts?

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By *radleywigginsMan
over a year ago

northwest

Meat raffle?

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well some became fashionable, remember when pulled pork was "scraps"

Lidl do have some nice meat, occasionally though the meat is let down by the butchery, cut or rolled badly. Other times though pretty good.

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

I buy meat in bulk, is the only way to make it reasonable, so have to freeze it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There's still the odd bit of decent cheap stuff out there. Do love a shin of beef I must say

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our local farms have some good deals on bulk meats. We've got a few good abattoirs too that do big hampers that last a couple of months if cooked in stews/curries, etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Get a tin of corned beef for 30 bob and make a pan of Panackelty

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We buy whole butchered animals when we can afford it. It cuts down on cost.

Shin and the like are fashionable now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then "

Skirt was expensive too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then

Skirt was expensive too."
have to look at other parts of the animal now

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By *elnkazCouple
over a year ago

cheshire

Bacon bones. My now that was a cheap meal .dont know if you can still get them from a butchers now..kaz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then

Skirt was expensive too."

It has gone expensive...but it's a far better meat then shin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then

Skirt was expensive too.have to look at other parts of the animal now"

Sweetbreads?

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"Best stewing beef is skirt...and I'm not just saying it cos I like to fecking wear then

Skirt was expensive too.

It has gone expensive...but it's a far better meat then shin "

More fat on shin, and everyone knows the fat is the good bit

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By *hubaysiWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I’ve got my own spreadsheet of Yorkshire butchers and their prices. I update the sheet every day, sometimes spend an hour a day on it :-0

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By *lmostthereMan
over a year ago

Southampton

Braised oxtail in Rioja

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"I’ve got my own spreadsheet of Yorkshire butchers and their prices. I update the sheet every day, sometimes spend an hour a day on it :-0 "

For professional or personal curiosity?

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham

Cheap cuts of meat aren't cheap anymore because the celebrity chefs all started using them and telling people how cheap they are and how tasty.

This made them desirable and trendy and as a consequence the prices skyrocket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cheap cuts of meat aren't cheap anymore because the celebrity chefs all started using them and telling people how cheap they are and how tasty.

This made them desirable and trendy and as a consequence the prices skyrocket "

I blame the daft buggers who buy them..you can pay more for neck of lamb then a leg of lamb...I know which I'd fecking buy

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By *orkie321bWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham


"Cheap cuts of meat aren't cheap anymore because the celebrity chefs all started using them and telling people how cheap they are and how tasty.

This made them desirable and trendy and as a consequence the prices skyrocket

I blame the daft buggers who buy them..you can pay more for neck of lamb then a leg of lamb...I know which I'd fecking buy "

Me too!

We don't like the fatty cuts of meat much anyway. I buy large joints of topside beef, cut it up myself and use it for stews. It cooks quicker too which is a bonus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"... are so bloody expensive these days! I thought I would get a nice bit of shin beef for a slow cooked chilli, £9.20/kg! Silverside and topside of beef, £7/kg. It's crazy! Whatever happened to the cheap cuts? "

Catch yerself some rat then!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've seen the price difference in my local butchers for a few years now, ludicrous, yet TV chefs still prattle on about cheap cuts being "pennies"!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cheap cuts of meat aren't cheap anymore because the celebrity chefs all started using them and telling people how cheap they are and how tasty.

This made them desirable and trendy and as a consequence the prices skyrocket

I blame the daft buggers who buy them..you can pay more for neck of lamb then a leg of lamb...I know which I'd fecking buy

Me too!

We don't like the fatty cuts of meat much anyway. I buy large joints of topside beef, cut it up myself and use it for stews. It cooks quicker too which is a bonus."

Evening in Asda and tesco...their cheap frying steak is far cheaper then shin beef...the fecking mind boggles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s all that Jamie whatshisfaces fault, making books about eating for less and now the supermarkets have realised.... waves giat at the mockney twat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk."

And there’s never enough freezer room to do proper bulk cooking, I find.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk.

And there’s never enough freezer room to do proper bulk cooking, I find. "

True. Mine's full of runner beans and tomatoes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk.

And there’s never enough freezer room to do proper bulk cooking, I find.

True. Mine's full of runner beans and tomatoes "

Mine too! (If runner beans are ice pops and tomatoes are choc ices!)

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk.

And there’s never enough freezer room to do proper bulk cooking, I find.

True. Mine's full of runner beans and tomatoes

Mine too! (If runner beans are ice pops and tomatoes are choc ices!)"

well I did find room for a 2 litre tub of Cornish ice cream

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you add the cost of fuel to cook them they are no longer cheap unless you cook in bulk.

And there’s never enough freezer room to do proper bulk cooking, I find.

True. Mine's full of runner beans and tomatoes

Mine too! (If runner beans are ice pops and tomatoes are choc ices!)

well I did find room for a 2 litre tub of Cornish ice cream "

Good call

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12. "

I don't think he has any idea of how little money some people have to spend on food.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

What about a bit of rabbit, free if you can shoot them. They are in season.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12. "

The thing is though....the nutters will pay him around £250 for that 12 quid of meat in one of his restaurants.

So to him it is a cheap cut.

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Didn't neck used to be cheap, but tough but can be quite tender. So I am lead to believe.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"What about a bit of rabbit, free if you can shoot them. They are in season."

then £800 in the dentist when you bite on the shot

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham


"What about a bit of rabbit, free if you can shoot them. They are in season.

then £800 in the dentist when you bite on the shot "

I always caught mine with a harris hawk, much less hassle.

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By *r and mrs sanddancerCouple
over a year ago

BOLDON COLLIERY

We are having a half leg of lamb tomorrow

from Lidl cost £7 for 1.5kg

that will do the two of us for 3 meals

I recon that's a cheap meal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Road kill or horse them travelers leave them all over the place and it was not unknown for the likes of aldi to do a nice cut ............... sorry just joking!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12.

The thing is though....the nutters will pay him around £250 for that 12 quid of meat in one of his restaurants.

So to him it is a cheap cut."

True. I do pay for lamb fillets for a stew,but my son eats like a horse and he pays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12.

The thing is though....the nutters will pay him around £250 for that 12 quid of meat in one of his restaurants.

So to him it is a cheap cut.

True. I do pay for lamb fillets for a stew,but my son eats like a horse and he pays "

I haven't had lamb stew for years..you've got me fancying it now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always find meat tastes so much nicer when it has a yellow reduced label on it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OK then here's a cheap cut and don't go all shouty until you've tried it.

Tesco beef heart...now I hear you all going ...but I've had it unknowingly I must admit and to be honest I thought I was eating topside of beef. Tesco are selling it for £3.50 a kilo but you'll more then likely get it cheaper at a local butcher.

Great for stews and curries too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I always find meat tastes so much nicer when it has a yellow reduced label on it "

shopping is so much cheaper with a big coat

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex


"OK then here's a cheap cut and don't go all shouty until you've tried it.

Tesco beef heart...now I hear you all going ...but I've had it unknowingly I must admit and to be honest I thought I was eating topside of beef. Tesco are selling it for £3.50 a kilo but you'll more then likely get it cheaper at a local butcher.

Great for stews and curries too "

I've never eaten heart, I don't like offal normally. What's the texture like?

I dislike the texture of cheek so if it's anything like that I wouldn't eat it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Jamie Oliver was making a lamb tagine and said it's cheap because you use the cheaper cuts of lamb. The meat would have cost £12.

The thing is though....the nutters will pay him around £250 for that 12 quid of meat in one of his restaurants.

So to him it is a cheap cut.

True. I do pay for lamb fillets for a stew,but my son eats like a horse and he pays

I haven't had lamb stew for years..you've got me fancying it now "

It is lovely. I use leek and onion and some barley too.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Scan the roadsides for Tennant meat samples.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"OK then here's a cheap cut and don't go all shouty until you've tried it.

Tesco beef heart...now I hear you all going ...but I've had it unknowingly I must admit and to be honest I thought I was eating topside of beef. Tesco are selling it for £3.50 a kilo but you'll more then likely get it cheaper at a local butcher.

Great for stews and curries too

I've never eaten heart, I don't like offal normally. What's the texture like?

I dislike the texture of cheek so if it's anything like that I wouldn't eat it."

To be honest it was years back when I tasted it and my mate told me it was topside...and that's what it looked and tasted like.

I must admit if he had told me it was heart first...I wouldn't have eaten the fecker. But I'm glad I did...and I'll be off to tesco now to have again

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"OK then here's a cheap cut and don't go all shouty until you've tried it.

Tesco beef heart...now I hear you all going ...but I've had it unknowingly I must admit and to be honest I thought I was eating topside of beef. Tesco are selling it for £3.50 a kilo but you'll more then likely get it cheaper at a local butcher.

Great for stews and curries too "

My wife enjoyed a nice bit of tripe this week.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"OK then here's a cheap cut and don't go all shouty until you've tried it.

Tesco beef heart...now I hear you all going ...but I've had it unknowingly I must admit and to be honest I thought I was eating topside of beef. Tesco are selling it for £3.50 a kilo but you'll more then likely get it cheaper at a local butcher.

Great for stews and curries too

My wife enjoyed a nice bit of tripe this week. "

there's a fecking hint in the name

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By *raceytvcdTV/TS
over a year ago

mansfield


"... are so bloody expensive these days! I thought I would get a nice bit of shin beef for a slow cooked chilli, £9.20/kg! Silverside and topside of beef, £7/kg. It's crazy! Whatever happened to the cheap cuts?

Catch yerself some rat then! "
or fox tail soup

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By *raceytvcdTV/TS
over a year ago

mansfield

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone "

That's horse meat

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat "

It's Nigel....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat

It's Nigel.... "

It will be chewy as feck

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat

It's Nigel....

It will be chewy as feck "

And smell!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat "

Shit*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat

It's Nigel....

It will be chewy as feck

And smell! "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I blame the hipsters. (And tv chefs).

Made all the cheap cuts trendy and we all know trendy means expensive.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford


"It's pretty cheap in the Eurozone

That's horse meat

It's Nigel....

It will be chewy as feck

And smell!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Is this a new description and promotion method for some single guys?

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham


"Road kill or horse them travelers leave them all over the place and it was not unknown for the likes of aldi to do a nice cut ............... sorry just joking! "

You say that. After it was revealed horse meat was being put in processed food, I went to a food fare in brighton and one of the stalls was selling horse meat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"... are so bloody expensive these days! I thought I would get a nice bit of shin beef for a slow cooked chilli, £9.20/kg! Silverside and topside of beef, £7/kg. It's crazy! Whatever happened to the cheap cuts? "
Aberdeen Angus is so worth it

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