Morrisons £10 Meat Box

[Reynard]

To be honest, I'd much rather have less of better quality / higher welfare meat. Having said that, there is still plenty that can be had cheaply if you are on a tighter budget e.g. offal, cuts seen as less "premium" etc.

I consider my store cupboard to be well-stocked. It's only the two of us here, but I always have things in like pasta, dried egg noodles, dried pulses and grains, a reasonable selection of canned goods (fruit, vegetables and tuna), tetrapaks of passata, a range of herbs, spices, stock cubes, soy, worcester and chilli sauces, bread flour, dried active yeast. A lot of it is basic stuff and cheap to buy.

When it comes to cooking, it's down to planning a lot of the time. That, and the fact that if you *are* pressed for time, the slow cooker really is your friend.

 

[NorthernDave]

Do they still have Sunday meat raffles in pubs?. Around here you'd see them advertised,with the winner getting a hamper of stuff from the local slaughterhouse and the runners up getting joints of beef,pork or lamb.

Ah, the meat raffle - a selection of whatever the local butcher had left over at closing, sat uncovered on a metal tray at the end of the tap room bar, slowly warming to room temperature and being gently smoked by the cigarette fumes over the course of the evening as the meat juices leaked into the bar towel.

 

[PaulSB]

[QUOTE 5184713, member: 259"]Erm...What's wrong with having a well-stocked store cupboard? You'd better not come round ours![/QUOTE]

Of course there’s nothing wrong with it. I have one and by using that and the two freezers* I probably have enough food for a month. What gets me riled is the assumption this applies to everyone. For those on low incomes, large families etc. having a well stocked cupboard can be very difficult. When people preach, I’m not suggesting anyone here is, about low income families needing to cook rather than buy cheap processed meals I feel this takes no account of the cost of the luxury of a well stocked cupboard, herbs, spices etc.

* I have a large allotment and put a lot of effort in to finding yellow label food of every type.

 

[Reynard]

I have a large allotment and put a lot of effort in to finding yellow label food of every type.

Ah, a fellow yellow sticker-er.

 

[Reynard]

Mmmmm, certainly as far as cooking is concerned... My mum began to teach me me how to cook as soon as I was old enough to stir a bowl of batter - she trained in a professional kitchen, so I consider myself very, very lucky.

When I did Home Ec at school (mid to late 80s), the majority of my classmates were total klutzes in the kitchen and had no idea how to use basic kitchen utensils such as a potato masher - used a blender to make mash. Friends who have a 14 year old daughter despair that school cookery classes consist of combining pre-prepared ingredients e.g. a pizza made from a bought base, a jar of pasta sauce and a pack of ready grated cheese and a shepherds pie made from instant mash and canned mince... (A bit like Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking)

It seems as if cooking (despite the number of chef-y progs on the telly) doesn't seem to be a worthwhile skill to have, seeings that convenience food is so cheap and readily available. It's a shame really, as so many things are easy to make and often far cheaper to make at home as opposed to buying pre-prepared.

 

[PaulSB]

Ah, a fellow yellow sticker-er.

 

[Milzy]

My mate Dave would eat that in one sitting.

 

[Reynard]

Tonight's supper was constructed on the back of YS ingredients: buffalo mozzarella, beef tomato & avocado salad with homemade bread and butter followed by plum and apple crumble with lashings of custard.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ah, the meat raffle - a selection of whatever the local butcher had left over at closing, sat uncovered on a metal tray at the end of the tap room bar, slowly warming to room temperature and being gently smoked by the cigarette fumes over the course of the evening as the meat juices leaked into the bar towel.

I never saw this meat. The places i'm on about were rough holes. You'd go in for a pint and keep your head down. I'm assuming that If you went near this meat,wherever it was,the locals would growl at you like a devil dog guarding its dinner.

 

[jefmcg]

My mate Dave would eat that in one sitting.

You need to start using the "quote" or "reply" button

 

[hobo]

I'm surprised at you lot a load of cyclists that eat so much meat, heart attack on a plate most of it.
Everyone eats far too much of it too often.
Eat far less of it your'e feel much better for it and it will improve your cycling.

 

[Reynard]

I'm surprised at you lot a load of cyclists that eat so much meat, heart attack on a plate most of it.
Everyone eats far too much of it too often.
Eat far less of it your'e feel much better for it and it will improve your cycling.

Meat is as healthy or unhealthy as you want to make it.

I didn't eat any meat today - got my protein in the form of eggs and cheese. Tomorrow I'll be having fish, but there's a ribeye steak in my freezer that I plan to cook for Monday. It's a big one (around 8oz) so will do me for two days.

 

[classic33]

I'm surprised at you lot a load of cyclists that eat so much meat, heart attack on a plate most of it.
Everyone eats far too much of it too often.
Eat far less of it your'e feel much better for it and it will improve your cycling.

I've eaten that, and more. Often before cycling, or more normally as part of the main meal when the working day was 12 hours or more.

 

[Milzy]

I'm surprised at you lot a load of cyclists that eat so much meat, heart attack on a plate most of it.
Everyone eats far too much of it too often.
Eat far less of it your'e feel much better for it and it will improve your cycling.

If I go veggie I could shave 10 seconds off my Fred Whitton time.