Aussies aren't into meat!

[LP]

Interesting to read comments from Woolworths claiming Australian's are eating less red meat.

I'd gather pretty comprehensive research before an executive would make such a sweeping statement.

But I wonder how many other families are like my family, and have stopped buying cheap carbon monoxide, nitrogenated and water filled supermarket meats and fish because they are rubbish!

We've gone back to the local specialist for most of our protein needs, meat from the butcher and fish from the monger. We have taken a position of quality over quantity, the stuff is just too expensive to be served rubbish. The quality difference, flavour and texture improvement was immediately noticeable, I must admit to my embarrassment I had become accustomed to the flavourless meat coming from the supermarket!  :-[

The irony is, the local supermarkets have recently "heavily encourage" food standards Australia to give all the local competing butchers and fishmongers utter buggery!

I wonder who pays for the inspector's groceries?

Anyway, we'll continue supporting the local traders, bacon that is smoked and not chemically cured, wrapped around scallops that are shucked and not cookie cut!

There is something incredibly satisfying about have a small quantity, just enough not too much, of something that is really good! ;D

[LoveNavy]

Oh..... I thought this was a new beat-up-on-Levi thread ????

[DJC]

One of our local butchers (15 minutes drive) has closed down because of family illness.  Our closest butcher is OK (5 minutes drive), particularly for sausages.  The best butcher is 20 minutes away but their meat is sublime.

I will buy free range chicken from the supermarket but my red meat comes from one of the local butchers.

We are also fortunate to have three outstanding seafood retailers within 20 minutes drive.  That has meant a slight decline in the amount of red meat consumed in the DJC household.

Interestingly, several of the local businesses are heavily into marketing US style BBQs and smokers, all of which rely on top quality meat (often red) and in cuts not offered by the supermarkets.

[Gointocarlton]

Our household is an old fashioned butcher only one, as LP said, it’s too expensive to spend on rubbish hence I only buy good stuff.

PS for one of the best cuts of scotch fillet or Italian sausages, head down to Brenta Meats in Fairfield.

[mateinone]

I rarely eat red mate. Not a vegetarian and used to occasional head into a nice steak restaurant, but it just isn't one of my favorite foods and my kids are the same, though they like meals with mince (ie bolognese), but I would usually prefer a vegetarian or spicy sausage pasta.

I much prefer chicken to red meat and would choose that over a steak on probably 99/100 occasions.

I actually do not care at all if my food is free range or not.

[Baggers]

Yep, local butcher gets our loot as well. He sources the vast majority of his meat from local growers, and also has his own smoker etc for some yummy exotic stuff. He keeps the well marbled stuff aside for folks like moi.

[crashlander]

I tend to get mine at the Queen Vic Market, but I haven't been able to get there much lately. We have a butcher in Bendigo whose prices are satisfactory, unlike your typical Woolworths' price. They produce stuff I get when I can't get down to the market.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I buy my meat at Coles...need to maintain my Wesfarmers dividends after they ballsed up Bunnings in the UK...

[cookie2]

I like to catch my own. 

[sandsmere]

I like to catch my own. 

I do a fair bit of that too cookie. Well, when we are on the Sunshine Coast.

For meat we have a couple of good butchers we go to.