Where do you buy your meat?

I used to buy from the grocery store, but since moving into the city centre, I've used our local butcher. I get all of our meat from there. Last night was the first time in a long time where I got meat from the grocery store. We went to ASDA to get food for my holiday (and Sainsburys was closed), and towards the end of the shop I got really hungry for a bolognaise. I didn't have anymore minced beef in the freezer, so I got some there. I cannot believe how different the meat tastes. The meat I got from ASDA was nasty and didn't even taste like real meat. So much fat ended up in the pan, it was really gross. I'm so glad we have the butcher, the quality of the meat is far superior to any grocery store.

I buy grocery store meat but NEVER from our ASDA. I had more than a few bad experiences with their mince. Bad smelling, turned brown, tons of chunks of grizzle and hard bits in it, etc. I go to Tesco and haent had a problem at all with any of their meat.

I buy grocery store meat but NEVER from our ASDA. I had more than a few bad experiences with their mince. Bad smelling, turned brown, tons of chunks of grizzle and hard bits in it, etc. I go to Tesco and haent had a problem at all with any of their meat.

We buy our chicken breast, porkchops, & lincolnshire sausages from the local butchers. but we usually buy our hamburger & beef brisket from Tesco, we haven't had any problems from Tesco with their meat either.

We try to buy from one of several good butchers in the area, but timing doesn't always work out... so sometimes we buy from Sainsbury's. Never Asda and I'm now boycotting Tesco entirely. Occasionally we buy from Co-op and we also recently bought some from Costco to freeze.

Yea, I can see why you all wouldn't shop at asda for meat.. yuck.

I get our frozen mince from Asda and haven't noticed any weirdness with it. Comes in handy sized packets too, instead of a huge giant bag of it.

I also use their 'Extra Special' gammon steaks and they are lovely.

We buy our meat at Tesco or Waitrose (if I can get there). So far it's been ok, but then I'm not much of a meat person. My first experience buying "mince" was at Sainbury's; along with the meat there were vast quantities of arteries/veins, all visible and totally disgusting. Ugh. My husband threw out the disgusting bits and cooked hamburgers with the rest; I ate a cheese sandwich.

(I don't eat meat, only fish.. but I have an opinion!)

Our local butcher has great-looking stock, and it's all pretty carefully sourced.  I'd buy there, or a place like it. Free range birds, grass-fed beef, and they make all their own sausages and pates.   Our Sainsburys has some issues with cleanliness... and if the meat dept. is anything like the fish dept., I'd stay away.  I've had to chuck out 'fresh' fish from there.

Off-topic... is your local butcher friendly?  Ours is a very grumpy man.  (He's grumpy to everyone, not just me.  I go in just to buy vegetables... I can expect some grumpiness!)
Butchers in Canada are pretty happy people, on the whole.

Our local butcher's always have a smile on there face's & are really friendly as well.

The one local butcher we've got left is really, really expensive so I only use them for special occaisions. I get sausages and bacon from the farmer's market and the rest from Waitrose or Sainsburys or, now that we have a membership, from Costco. Though I try to only buy free range chicken and pork regardless of where I get it.

Bacon is what I notice the biggest difference in - the amount of water that comes out of the cheap stuff is absolutely astounding. And it doesn't taste like anything.

(I don't eat meat, only fish.. but I have an opinion!)

Our local butcher has great-looking stock, and it's all pretty carefully sourced.  I'd buy there, or a place like it. Free range birds, grass-fed beef, and they make all their own sausages and pates.   Our Sainsburys has some issues with cleanliness... and if the meat dept. is anything like the fish dept., I'd stay away.  I've had to chuck out 'fresh' fish from there.

Off-topic... is your local butcher friendly?  Ours is a very grumpy man.  (He's grumpy to everyone, not just me.  I go in just to buy vegetables... I can expect some grumpiness!)
Butchers in Canada are pretty happy people, on the whole.

The people who work at the butcher by me are always very friendly.

If time permits (business hours), we buy most of our meat from our local butcher (locally sourced meat from the four nearest Yorkshire Dales to us), farmers market (again similarly locally sourced), or Leeds city market (same again).  We do occasionally buy some from Morrisons or Sainsburys too though.

We tend to buy it at Sainsburys, tho preference would be for a butchers.

Grumpy butcher?  When I lived in Cornwall, the local butchers was absolutely fantastic, and there were five or six really good looking, always really clean and freshly scrubbed young men. They were all blond as well, so I used to jokingly call them the Aryan Nazi youth butchers. (to myself or my husband)

****Just a joke, folks.....*******

I get ribeyes from a market stall. Pork chops, salmon and chicken breasts from Costco. Skirt steaks from a butcher. The rest, including mince, comes from Tesco, with the exception of sausages and ham that we get for free. Bit of running  about, but most is bought in bulk to save £'s.

The farmer's market or a butcher.

Local and NO intensively farmed meat.