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Best thing you can do is strike up a good relationship with a local butcher. I have done this, and every so often he gives me a call saying he has a good deal for me. Bought 10kg of T-Bones for 9 quid a kilo. We BBQ'd some last night! If you have the freezer space, it is worthwhile. as soon as I have a bit more freezer space, i'll be buying a whole lamb - and cutting the whole thing into chops. BBQ (grilled) lamb is awesome. Local butcher sells whole lamb for 4.50 per kilo - so basically about 70 quid for a lamb.

And you live where??????

If you look around you will find. I suggest butchers in more 'ethnic' areas. Butchers are business men - they charge what their market will bear.

A great deal depends on your locality, all of the butchers around here, and as far out to Junction 9 on the A1 still tend to use Smithfield there being no local abattoirs. The further out into this Green & Pleasant Land the closer you will be to a local Farm Shop or slaughter-man, and cheaper good quality meat. One of the benefits of "living on the cusp" as it were is that we can get the best of both worlds.

keith157 wrote:"living on the cusp"

and I thought you lived in Stevenage..

My two local farm shops sell either their own meat, or locally produced (one of them it's entirely their own meat).

Funny place, Yorkshire. If you don't live here, or visit, from the telly you'd presume we're a very rural society (Emmerdale, Last of the Summer Wine, Heartbeat, etc). But the truth is that West and South Yorkshire contain some of the most densely populated urban areas in Europe. But at the same time we have huge rural areas - North Yorkshire is the largest county (land wise) in the country, but there are no large cities (the largest, York is 200,000 people and there are then only two towns with between 50k & 100k). And even in West Yorkshire we have the Dales.

But it means we get loads of farms quite close to our cities, and I can't think of a town and city here which doesn't have a string of farm shops dotted just outside the city limits, selling great quality, reasonably priced meat.

Steve W

Believe it or not, you can find a fair number of farms selling their own produce in the home counties around London too. A small farm near me sells home-grown beef. It's kind of a hobby farm, nothing serious. One Angus is slaughtered, divided into 10, and you buy 1/10th of butchered cow in a box. Comes to about 6 or 7 pounds a kilo. He hangs it for 30 days too. Delicious, but it only happens once a year or more.

derekmiller wrote:

keith157 wrote:"living on the cusp"

and I thought you lived in Stevenage..