Steak has gone up!

I would rather not eat meat than buy from anywhere but my local butcher, who knows the provenance of all his meat (and of course will cut just the size you want); it’s all from animals bred and slaughtered locally. If in doubt when eating out I choose the vegetarian option. I refuse to support factory farming in this country or abroad.

I live on my state pension …what’s steak!?

inishowen

I've been away for a few days to the southern coast of Ireland. Beautiful area by the way. Anyway we booked dinner in a top restaurant. A sirloin steak with mushrooms and chips was 35 euro. I couldn't justify that but hubby had it.

Inishowen…..Which area was that please.

We only get steak occasionally and like OP regularly become anaemic and find that steak really does give me a lift for energy levels. I have got it in this weeks delivery - Tesco have an offer on the Clubcard prices for £4 for finest rump steak or £4.50 for finest sirloin which is very reasonable. I also sometimes get the ready meals for ease and have noticed that they first went up from 3 for £6 to 3 for £7 and now the weights have gone down too - usual ones have gone from 450g to 400g. Only noticed as they were all unavailable in the favourites list and when I searched it offered the new size instead! Everything is shrinking!!

Haven’t bought steak for years. Use my slow cooker for mince, with beef put in lentils, lamb pearl barley, pork apple, tomato all with onions.
A lot of “fresh” fish from Sainsburys , cod haddock, etc is frozen then defrosted. Some of their fish is processed in Vietnam. So now I only have canned salmon from the North Atlantic.
But I have discovered there is a fishmonger coming once a week with fish landed in Lowestoft tHat morning. The difference in texture.
I saw a programme about chickens how they are in sheds in thousands, never cleaned out so living in their shit.
So now I only have free range.
I am sure that most people don’t know what they are eating these days.

The best steak I have ever bought is at ALDI it’s only around five pounds for a top of the range fillet, a little cheaper for a sirloin.
I have bought steak everywhere over the years and always stick to aldi even the most expensive supermarkets can’t beat it in my opinion

Eat cake?

I had a Wagiyu beef burger at Hauser &Wirth in Somerset the other week. £20 and while it was very good as burgers go I still blanched at the price!

I've been away for a few days to the southern coast of Ireland. Beautiful area by the way. Anyway we booked dinner in a top restaurant. A sirloin steak with mushrooms and chips was 35 euro. I couldn't justify that but hubby had it.

Thought I would treat myself to a small beef joint last week as no one else eats it, all the joints were locked inside individual security boxes ?
Says it all really, I went for pork in the end, prices are getting out of hand for sure.

Your local butcher will cut you steaks to any size you want and also suggest other, cheaper cuts of meat.

Probably going to get even more expensive as so many crops have failed.

A restaurant we go to in leafy Cheshire where actually a few weeks ago The real Housewives of Cheshire were filming an episode , was 3 weeks ago charging £34 for a fillet steak.
I had chicken and my friend had pork steak.

Bought two sirloin steaks with peppercorn sauce attached this morning for £3.75 in Sainsbury. Not the thickest of steaks admittedly, but plenty big enough for us and are usually nice.

Just pubs Grumppa- its Cheshire but not Footballers/Cheshire wives country - we are in the post industrial bit.

Callistemon21

Spice101

We have been halving most meat for over a year. Not so much for the cost bit found a single piece each was far too much. Even halved a chicken keiv tonight.

We have too.

I don't seem to lose any weight though!

Hahha funny about that!

I've just checked on Sainsburys website - that's my local shop though it's not generally a cheap shop. A 225g sirloin steak is £4.75 and a 225g rump steak is £3.75.
The men in my family would eat a whole one but half is really quite enough so it's not too bad at under £2 per portion.

I never order steak when out.
I can cook it better myself.
Also a lot of restaurants give you peas and a tomotats. Almost as if they go for the cheapest veg they can find.
I like to have good quality red meat at least twice a month as it boosts iron levels. A doc told me a lot of older people are aneimic and don't realise it.
I dont believe that red meat, in moderation, is bad for us.

£25 recently in the South West for steak with very few trimmings and £22.50 at a pub recently in Wiltshire (we had something cheaper).

Are you talking gastropubs, BigBertha1? My two locals serving pub grub (suburban London) charge £12-14 for rump, depending on size, and £16-17 for rib-eye or sirloin.

I go to Costco every other payday, and buy a four pack of very thick sirloin steaks for around £40-45. I thought that was very expensive, but having read the OP, maybe it's actually not so outrageous.

I also buy a pack of their salmon fillets, which are massive, and one fillet could probably serve two, but not in this house!

I get a tray of their chicken thigh fillets and pork leg steaks.

All that lasts us two months, with 5% fat mince from Tesco or Aldi being the only other meat purchased.

It is getting expensive, but we are in the very fortunate position of being able to still afford it.

I have a steak about once a month as its proably not that good to have chunks of red meat - DH doesnt like so has fish. I do not understand why pubs charge upwards of £23 for a steak.

M& S Lasagne and Fish Pie for 2 has gone up to £10 that's a £2 rise- shan't but either of them I can and do easily make them but I usually have a couple in the freezer if we are late home and knackered.

Witzend

I hardly ever buy steak anyway, but am not surprised that it’s gone up.
Last time I bought any, I used the self checkout and neglected to take my receipt.
Hadn’t realised that there was a small security tag on the back of the pack, and there was no alert at the checkout - so I was stopped at the exit and had to stand there, a suspected thief, flanked by security guards, while they went through the bin to find my receipt. Which thank goodness they did.

Anyone else buying steak, please be warned!

How awful. Don’t like the habit of some stores asking you if you want a receipt. A security tag was left on an item from Primark so at the door I stop as a noise went off. The security guard politely escorted me back to the counter and asked for the receipt. Luckily I could find it among other things in my bag. It looked even worse as I wasn’t given a bag. Also it pays to examine your receipt for groceries as often a mistake has been made and something on offer hasn’t been shown.

My DH tends to order our meat from a local butcher who does delivery. I did just check steak appears to have gone up two 8oz sirloins £12.50 I am not keen on red meat the older I get the less I like it. We get minced beef from Tesco which hasn’t gone up I tend to order the best when on offer.
Fish we get from the local fish stall on a Friday

Rarely eat steak and salmon has become a treat. For those, like me, who don’t tolerate beans well, oats are useful for stretching mince.