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How much do you spend on meat per week?

Less than £5

25%

[ 4 ]

£5 - £10

37%

[ 6 ]

£10 - £15

[ 0 ]

£15 - £20

12%

[ 2 ]

£20 plus

25%

[ 4 ]

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Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 14 7:33 pm Post subject: How much do you spend on meat per week?
Just worked out today, as a household of 3, we spend £12.43, or £13.70 if we weren't in our own free delivery area. I was surprised how little it was, considering how much we pack away.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 14 8:08 pm Post subject:
I've no idea!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 14 10:11 pm Post subject:
Aye, I couldn't begin to work it out. However, you are not a household of three, unless we are one of about 19. We have teenage boys.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 14 10:14 pm Post subject:
Which leads to another question - what portion sizes do you work on? 250g per person here, for two of us, that is.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 14 10:23 pm Post subject:
Depends, massively. Half that for mince in a decent bolognese, sometimes. Four times that if Dom helps himself to a steak when I'm not watching.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46185
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 10:46 am Post subject:

i dont know.
last week about a fiver on sausages ,the phessies were a gift and made 6 human and 3 hound meals.
im still eating beltie who came as a bonus 3 week calf with his mum (mum was 350 less the 150 ish when she went to market)so 2 1/2 years beef might be 150 kill and cut plus a steer calf in exchange for his care)
a big pig is about 1 1/2 years ham and bacon
a few fr chooks
roadkill etc

at a guess about a tenner?a week for 3 people and a hound.

a lot less money than it would be from a supermarket is the only thing i know for definite.

with good quality meat i use less than i would with wet cure etc but eat meat more often than i would if it was supermarket meat.i recon we spend more on cheese than we do on flesh.

iaf

Joined: 30 Oct 2010
Posts: 168

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 11:17 am Post subject:
about 8 oz per adult, 6 oz for children= 3 sometimes 4 adults , one child size portions. Meat at least 5 days per week.

Finsky

Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:01 pm Post subject:

We can eat meat of some sort every other day for few weeks and then not eat any for long time and be almost 'veggie'. We don't spend much for meat...at most £10 every other week or so and that keeps two adults and terrier going.
Recently we've been eating 'free' pheasants...bird after bird....again and again...

...some turkey in between and now we are back phessie diet again..

I'm glad that the shooting season for them is nearly done.
Just took some lovely beef out of freezer..

..freezer is nearly ready for topping up.....

Last edited by Finsky on Thu Jan 09, 14 12:03 pm; edited 1 time in total

earthyvirgo

Joined: 24 Aug 2007
Posts: 7972
Location: creating prints in the loft, Gerlan

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:03 pm Post subject:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

On a meaty week, between £5 and £10 I would think. Closer to £5.

The huge (much larger than we really needed) leg of Welsh lamb at Christmas cost £30 but that lasted for ever! ... and the cats got a good deal out of it right at the end.

EV

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:08 pm Post subject:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

My figures are a yearly spend divided by 52 weeks, and don't include bacon, pork pies or roadkill, so it's probably a few quid more in reality, if we were buying everything.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
Posts: 4611
Location: Lampeter

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:15 pm Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Almost an impossible question for this household because it varies so much.

Some weeks zero - I still cook mainly vegetarian meals ... but never think of them as such.

My figures are a yearly spend divided by 52 weeks, and don't include bacon, pork pies or roadkill, so it's probably a few quid more in reality, if we were buying everything.

I was thinking your figure looked low for the 3 of you,was starting to think you lived off Trotters,lol

If i priced everything i ate of my own produce ,it would be more like 20 pounds plus a week,and that`s only me.

Rob R

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 31902
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:20 pm Post subject:

Ty Gwyn wrote:

If i priced everything i ate of my own produce ,it would be more like 20 pounds plus a week,and that`s only me.

That was my perception before I added it up - you might be surprised! (Too much influence from the outside world telling us that it's expensive!)

chicken feed

Joined: 27 Aug 2009
Posts: 2677

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 12:50 pm Post subject:

never gave it a passing thought we buy the odd chicken and fish but the freezers are full to bursting with beef, lamb, pork, bacon & sausages. i suppose its because we fill the freezers and meat is on tap we never stop to think of cost (that sounds bad i know but its normal to have meat on hand). if i did it would very as we feed 4 now 7 days a week and more a few nights a week so would be hard to gauge.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46185
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 1:06 pm Post subject:
ds ers seem to be better organized than most for meat . i recon at supermarket prices our meat bill would be prohibative 2 year old oak smoked ham is a deli product rather than a good way to store a dead pig

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 14 3:42 pm Post subject:

Popped into the local butcher yesterday, asked for meat that doesn't taste anything like either turkey or ham!

He sold me 12 lamb chops, 4 rib-eye steaks and two venison steaks (red deer), cost = £36. This will feed the two of us for 6 days, but not consecutive days, I hasten to add, there'll be a few much cheaper meals interspersed with that lot.

I reckon that our average expenditure is around £25 per week for the two of us.

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