Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
I disagree with that. I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination but meat is one of the things I do not by based on its cheapness. I never by pre-packed meat unless nothing else is available. I always buy it fresh, including my chicken. I only use large free range eggs.
As for take-aways I live in Llandaff and the local curry house does take-aways. I love chicken rogan josh but I won't buy it there because the use cubes of reconstituted chicken. I buy my rogan at the Fairwater Tandoori because they use proper pieces of chicken that is recognisable as chicken, sometimes it even has bones in it.
There are a lot of people who still use traditional butchers (some even drive to Brecon to do it) and the extra cost is worth it because if you are paying that much for something anyway the extra couple of bob are worth it.
Come on, most people buy everything in supermarkets. I reckon if you had one fridge with British chicken at Ł4 for a large chicken, and in the next fridge, large chickens with no information on them at Ł3, most people would buy the Ł3 ones.

My experience of supermarket meat buying during the lockdown is that essentials or the best things get bought first.

I have two decent meat stalls in my local market and I buy things from them occasionally. Paying the extra is worth it for me. A third similar stall closed down last year as there wasn't the business.

In your argument all you kept saying was what you do. I'm looking at what I see lots of other people doing.