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[Vamps]

I was shocked to find our meat came from so far away, where I assume standards are not up to what we have in the UK

Whilst we don't go very cheap with food we do use micro meals sometimes; in the future looks like we will be using, for all our meat, our local abattoir / direct seller Bolams of Sedgefield where we know where the cow's come from......

If you organize your cooking, it can take no more time per day than living on tv meals or takeaways. Then you know the ingredients and can adjust the recipe to suit your palette. When I have a cooking session I will generally cook a batch of 10 to 20 portions, with what is not used going in the freezer as my fast food.

A couply of years a go I went to get some burgers for a BBQ and the shop had sold out, so I just got mince meat and made my own. All you need is mince beef, a chopped onion, some coriander, an egg and seasoning. It is best to make the burgers several hours before you need them or the night before as they can then rest in the fridge and are much less likely to break up on the BBQ. All I can say is once you have tried this you will never won't to go back to the poor shop rubbish burgers again.

I was making my own burgers many years ago............

[albitz]

Swmbo makes her own burgeers from minced beef fresh from the butchers.It makes my mouth water just thinking about them.
Nom nom.
No wonder Im getting fatter by the day.

[SteveAvfc.]

Its not the horsemeat as such, its the lack of traceability, how do you know dobbin wasnt on anitbiotics or painkillers?

british scourced meat should be tracable back to the farm and individual animal.
as said if supermarkets push the prices down, suppliers will buy from dodgy sources.

Having worked in the trade for nearly 40yrs now nothing surprises me, in my early 30s i worked as a casualty slaughterman and regularly killed horse hand on heart cant lie and say that it did not enter the food chains, so if it was going on then why not now. As for tractability now in beef all beef has or should be traceable back to source, but as we all know if a fast buck is to be made rules will be broken.

[omega3000]

A good thing now is the local butchers are doing a roaring trade   

[aaronjb]

I had a Tesco frozen lasagne (bought just before they realised there was horse in everything) on Monday night for dinner.

I thought it was quite delicious, though by all accounts there wasn't a great deal of meat in there anyway!

[omega3000]

Asda still had lasagna on sale yesterday  many folks blocking the isle reading the ingredients  Best not to mention the tinned mince then 

[aaronjb]

Asda still had lasagna on sale yesterday  many folks blocking the isle reading the ingredients  Best not to mention the tinned mince then 

Reading the ingredients.. because, obviously, Horse would be written on there if it was in there

[Varche]

Asda still had lasagna on sale yesterday  many folks blocking the isle reading the ingredients  Best not to mention the tinned mince then 

Can you really buy tinned mince? Whatever next.

[aaronjb]

Asda still had lasagna on sale yesterday  many folks blocking the isle reading the ingredients  Best not to mention the tinned mince then 

Can you really buy tinned mince? Whatever next.

You can buy canned whole chicken in the US! I kid you not:



http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/04/whole-chicken-in-a-can-taste-test.html

 

[omega3000]

Asda still had lasagna on sale yesterday  many folks blocking the isle reading the ingredients  Best not to mention the tinned mince then 

Can you really buy tinned mince? Whatever next.

You can buy any meat tinned , i quite like those hamburgers in gravy and onions  not that i suspect any ham is in them