Steak has gone up!

I stretch any mince-based dish with red lentils, too, and sometimes quite a lot of finely chopped root veg, too. Particularly good for e.g. shepherd’s pie and what we call School Dinner Mince (my version), which dh really enjoys -(he’s very easily pleased on the food front, for which I’m forever grateful.)

We always buy one good 21 day aged rib eye steak and share it, with fried onions, peppercorn sauce and a baked potato with a knob of butter. Plenty!

Jeepers Urmstongran you've made me hungry now and I've only just had my breakfast!!

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!

Urmstongran

We always buy one good 21 day aged rib eye steak and share it, with fried onions, peppercorn sauce and a baked potato with a knob of butter. Plenty!

Hmm. Maybe I need to quarter it now?
A bit like ‘a finger of fudge’ which is ‘just enough’. ?

That's what we've been doing.
After I cook it, I cut it in half lengthwise, so that were both getting the Best Side

RichmondPark1

I've been batch cooking chillis/spagbol sauce using half the amount of mince and upping the bean/veg content. It's made me more creative with ingredients and I prefer it being less about the meat.

I also have less meal and more side salad with almost everything as I grow my own so that bit's free.

Much better for the digestive system too?

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!

I have a steak just once a year, as a treat. I tend to eat chicken but even that is going up in price now.

We always buy one good 21 day aged rib eye steak and share it, with fried onions, peppercorn sauce and a baked potato with a knob of butter. Plenty!

Hmm. Maybe I need to quarter it now?
A bit like ‘a finger of fudge’ which is ‘just enough’. ?

We are vegetarian but still noticing a big rise in grocery bills

Just as for energy, I am so angry about the reasons that have caused this rise. And yet, perhaps the positive side, that we all have to learn to respect energy, and expensive foodstuffs, red meat in particular, much better.

Just making a big batch of Bolo. with half a pound of mince, and peppers, courgettes, mushrooms and a big tin of lentils, which will give me at least 12 portions (would normally add carrots, but I haven't got any - and with the price of petrol, learning to respect its use too and avoid short trips for 1 item or two, as I used to without thinking).

We have steak every Friday and I have noticed the leap in price.

I gave also thought that my salmon fillets have got very thin.

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.

I've been batch cooking chillis/spagbol sauce using half the amount of mince and upping the bean/veg content. It's made me more creative with ingredients and I prefer it being less about the meat.

I also have less meal and more side salad with almost everything as I grow my own so that bit's free.

Not with steak - a very rare treat here - but I've just decided that our weekly salmon fillets are getting rather expensive. There's no way I could possible persuade OH to only have half of one (I can imagine his response if I were to suggest it, and it would not be repeatable here), but I decided yesterday that I will halve my own portion from now on. Every little helps.

I’ve been cutting down on red meat for a while so rarely buy steak now using quorn in mince dishes, I do like a good beef stew in Winter though.