Steakflation

[fossyant]

I did go a good 'inch' thick though ! The price is £50kg now ! Wowsers. If you think chicken breast is £7 per kg from the supermarket

I am making a nice meal with it, "leek cheese" rather than cauliflower cheese to be baked yet.

 

[gbb]

I saw pork belly slices for £6.50 a medium size pack the other day...£6.50 !!!!, they used to be cheap as chips, a tasty cheap meat if you were on a budget. I noticed they were far more fat than meat...beggars belief.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I did go a good 'inch' thick though ! The price is £50kg now ! Wowsers. If you think chicken breast is £7 per kg from the supermarket

Prime wild turbot is cheaper FGS.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I saw pork belly slices for £6.50 a medium size pack the other day...£6.50 !!!!, they used to be cheap as chips, a tasty cheap meat if you were on a budget. I noticed they were far more fat than meat...beggars belief.

You've not been monitoring chip prices recently then

(But pork shoulder is still great value and very versatile)

 

[accountantpete]

I used to have a steak rare now I have a rare steak.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Crickey, I've only eaten out a few times since the covid pandemic began, but meat prices have appeared to have gotten silly!

These days I stick to free range eggs; pork pies; fishsticks and sardines for my non-vegan protein fixes.

 

[fossyant]

It's got expensive (eating out) and a lot of restaurants are closing. The last steak we had out was Chateaubriand for two - was £70, but we tend to eat less these days, so a main course was enough. It was our anniversary. We just had a decent bottle of wine to go with it and a jug of water.

 

[dicko]

Get yourself a Nectar card, visit Sainsbury’s and find the meat display and have a hunt through you will find beef at bargain prices. Aldi has usually a good steak selection too. Lidl in the bargain meat cooler four steaks for around £10 always a good selection there. Both Aldi & Lidl meat is British sourced.

 

[Dadam]

If you think chicken breast is £7 per kg from the supermarket

Which seems to be mostly water these days

 

[presta]

Brexit put an end to subsidies, so UK farmers cut production, and an international supply shortage meant the gap couldn't be filled by imports. From 15m35s

 

[fossyant]

Which seems to be mostly water these days

Very noticeable if you pick the 'value' breast filets !

 

[wafter]

It's the same as everything else, isn't it?

The natural consequence of years of rock-bottom interest rates and pumping the economy full of cheap money via the pockets of the rich... and all the time the establishment have the gaul to suggest that inflation is both at an acceptable level and and under control.

Another of the many examples is posh co-op sarnies. IIRC 4-5yrs ago these were sub-£3; looked the other day and they're now £4.40 - a rise of circa 50% over this time which is what, an 8-10% increase annually.

One only has to look at the price of gold for a sobering reflection of the true value of our increasingly worthless paper tokens - which now buy about half of the shiny metal than they did five years ago.

It's why I went to the butcher - flavour.

The butcher's the best bet full stop tbh - better quality, usually cheaper and much less grotty plastic waste too.

 

[fossyant]

Co-op sarnies have to be bought on the meal deal for any value !

 

[wafter]

Co-op sarnies have to be bought on the meal deal for any value !

Indeed; however sadly the posh ones aren't included.

If you really want to maximise the meal deal you have to go for the £3.50ish enormo-can of Red bull; which accounts for most of the purchase price on its own

 

[Jameshow]

Co-op sarnies have to be bought on the meal deal for any value !

Indeed with a Cornish pastie snack which I eat for lunch the next day!
True Yorkshire tightness!