Lidl leg of lamb.

Butcher Boy

Support yer local butcher if ye can, not always the cheapest but at least ye can be sure it is top class meat. We are getting thin on the ground.

50HX

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121895308#Comment_121895308

Chicken anywhere is gone downhill rapidly in the past 6months

Even the free range one in the box in super value is gone backwards

I was in the local butcher the other day, he opens around 8, putting stuff out from the fridge onto display counter & a young lad brought the chicken fillets in a diff box to transfer, I'd a gander at the label & polish origin.....not good

Silverdream

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924237#Comment_121924237

On the Chicken issue, when I watch them TV chefs frying chicken it alway goes nice and golden brown with no water. I'd love to know where they get their chicken from as it certainly isn't from any of the supermarkets or butchers around me.

I understand the need for cheap foods and alternatives but f** sake chicken meat is no longer meat but a pool of jelly

893bet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121903192#Comment_121903192

I have been left bitterly disappointed by my local butcher the last few turns.

Between not having what I want (eye of the round, legs of lamb, sideline lamb chops)

and worse still poor quality beef roast. Last two times I was having a larger than normal crowd for Sunday I ordered a 1.8 ish kg of housekeepers and twice it was like tough like round roast. I normally get the 1k joint from Aldi and it’s always melt in the mouth. Should have just cooked two of them. I find Aldi meat reasonably good.

blue5000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924884#Comment_121924884

+1 ordered a goose off a butcher for Christmas a few years back, there was more meat on a pigeon and twice the price of a Lidl goose. Haven't been back since. We buy all our beef from Aldi, AFAIK it comes from ABP in Nenagh. Perhaps there's someone here that can read the label?

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121931770#Comment_121931770

Here is the list of DAFM/Bord Bia approved slaughter and boning plants. Each plant has a code number where the animal is slaughtered. Some labels will show the same code whilst others don't and that means the animal was slaughtered in one planted but boned out/processed in another.

https://www.bordbia.ie/farmers-growers/member-status/scheme-members/beef-qas-list/

I buy some steaks (striploin/sirloin) from a local butcher but I also buy from Lidl and Dunnes Stores. IMO the Dunnes Stores "Simply Better Range" of Angus steaks are far superior to those from our local butcher and Lidl. According to the codes on the label, Dunnes source them from Jennings in Ballinrobe.

whelan2

Dunnes pork is always very good. I go to a few different butchers get beef wellingtons, chicken kievs, black / white pudding, meatballs. Normally 1 roast of some sort. Find aldi, lidl very good for steaks.

green daries

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121931889#Comment_121931889

Ya dunnes all jenninigs In ballinrobe specialise in Angus cattle......... and plenty of lorrys of fresians from the south as well

FintanMcluskey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121931889#Comment_121931889

The Dunnes simply better range is superior to my local butchers imo as well.

It certainly seems to cook easier in any case