I'm finding that as the price of meat has gone up (and the YS reductions aren't as generous), that I'm buying less meat but better quality meat - I actively look for higher welfare and don't mind paying more for it. I'd much rather have less of better quality and enjoy it when I do. And make the most of what I *do* buy.
And like for poultry, I'll get a whole bird and joint it (if not roasting it) as opposed to buying just breasts - which don't have that much flavour anyway. I'm spoiled with access to a good local butcher (who happens to have a very useful half price shelf and who sells good offal and locally-sourced game), as well as Waitrose and a pretty decent Tesco.
Other than some coronation turkey on lunchtime toast, our main meals have all been veggie this week. Not deliberately, but just me looking in the fridge and cooking with what wanted using up, as I hate wasting food. That, and the fact I've been up to my eyeballs in hone-grown tomatoes.
The coronation turkey was made with free range turkey btw, the meat that I'd picked off the carcass after boiling the bones for stock and then froze in 250g portions. Those pickings are perfect for this kind of thing, or for pies and potted meat and the like. I've used everything from that damn turkey bar the gobble!
Just as a personal observation to close. None of us like paying through the nose for food, but part of me is actually glad that prices have gone up, because it'll mean that people will value food more and therefore waste less of it. Apparently
figures put before parliament pin food waste down at £250 per person per annum. Of course that's an average. But still, the mind boggles - that's the equivalent of 333 loaves of my usual (75p Tesco own-brand wholemeal sliced loaf) bread. Picture that, and yeah, it's a LOT.
