The horse meat scandal has now hit home

tonight in the supermarket the lady commented on my purchases and I pointed out I wouldnt be buying premade meals and she said everyone is saying that!! Good...what a load of rubbish. Not called junk food for nothing. However I can see the excuses and blame someone else etc creeping out already. Yuk appalling standards. Our food industry is very ill indeed.
 
As times gone on, the amount of pre-made beef products on our shopping trolley has shrunk, we've increasingly leaned towards making our own meals, using fresh produce.. convenience food has had it's place, for example where I work, we get 15 mins to eat our meals, this is where microwaves come in (along with heartburn)..
I've always been a pasta/rice person, and always preferred veg, and chicken. Lamb, beef, pork, all taste best fresh.
These days our lunches are more sandwiches and yogurts, or re-heating our own 'ready made meals' made in a larger batch (there are two of us) for 4, and half goes into the freezer.
 
Shadeyoak - first of all is that legal? Secondly you can batch cook and freeze your own readymeals. I fed 4 people last night on 400g of mince, 2 onions, 3 small carrots, half a leek , 6 potatoes and a tin of tomatoes :)

When I was off work injured I had to cut back every spare penny - I quickly learned to make simple ingredients go further (the above meal was a cottage pie with onion gravy :)). It also had the benefit of reducing the amount of IBS attacks I was having.

ETA: next time I'll read the whole post before replying :rolleyes: :o, home-made readymeals are brilliant and so much healthier!
 
I do hope this revealation will open peoples eyes to how crooked the supermarkets and EU are. When British beef had BSE we were banned from exporting it. But we cannot ban the import of this foreign meat/ pink slime, whatever form it ocmes in.

Get out of supermarkets and go to the butchers, greengrocers and local independant shops, it honestly won't cost any more as you need less when you have a quality product.

As well as knowing where your meat's came from, that it was killed humanely, you will be meeting local people who might just say hello, and bringing life back into the community again.

they dont call them the good old days for nothing!
 
Must admit.... Was at my parents tonight and they suggested a take-away. Could only bring myself to have noodle soup as I was so worried what the meat would be like (I have always been slightly odd/paranoid about meat anyway!!)
 
I don't understand why people can't make a simple lasagne and would buy it as a ready meal anyway - dried pasta sheets, minced beef (from butchers) or quorn if veggie, onion, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, white sauce (this is generally ok out of a jar but just as easy to make) and some grated cheese. It takes about 15 minutes to prepare and then put in the oven for about 30 minutes, job done.

I did a veg moussaka the other day - did me for two nights and other two portions are in the freezer - it cost me about £3 to make in total - so an equivalent of about 75p per portion.

I know we often don't have time to cook and think that it's going to take a long time, but honestly, it really doesn't - what's 15 minutes out of the day, to know what you are eating?
 
I love my slow cooker. It's the best takeaway prevention utensil ever. Bung stuff in it before you go to work, come home to food that's ready to eat. Saves money and means we eat healthier - win win.
 
I work for the supermarket at the centre of this scandal and I can count on one hand the number of readymeals that have passed through my checkout over the last couple of days. It is definitely having an impact, hopefully a resurgence on the highstreet will follow. Too long people have put their faith in mass produced, low quality food. If people stop eating readymeals, full of salt and fat, nevermind horsemeat, then maybe the population as a whole will become healthier!!
 
Never been allowed to eat beef since foot and mouth my dad refuses to hae any of the family eat it. was annoyed about it at one point now very gald he stopped me :)
 
I adore moussaka, home made lasagne, macoroni cheese (with broccoli) used to make my own cheese sauce (half a teaspoon of english mustard does it a treat ;) really gives the boring cheese sauce a good old kick), veg pasta etc.. my Oh isn't a fan of veg, or lamb mince, so i'm a bit limited...
I like medium rare lamp chunks, Oh likes them over done.. I never over season, I like to taste the food i'm cooking :D
 
singing dawg said:
Get out of supermarkets and go to the butchers, greengrocers and local independant shops, it honestly won't cost any more as you need less when you have a quality product.

As well as knowing where your meat's came from, that it was killed humanely, you will be meeting local people!
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I went to my local butchers the other day looking for some gammon. They only had Danish prepacked slimy looking stuff. So I went to the next butcher and found the same. "Third time lucky" I thought but no, only imported vacuum packed stuff, injected full of water.

So I went to Tesco and bought some Finest British dry cured gammon. Yummy!
 
Its just scary that the EU is banging on about saving the environment.... then look at the miles this food has potentially travelled - and then it gets sold in burgers for what 12p each???

Thankfully we cook from scratch most of the time, but I have stopped buying processed sandwiches and salads.... :( I am especially worried where the chicken is comimg from and what it could really be.

I have also stopped buying soups and will be making my own from now on.
 
Since the amount of people out of work increased, they can cherry pick their workforce.. it's a like it or you know where the door is attitude these days.. we're lucky to get that, there was talk of 10 mins.. they reckon the average British worker has 10-15 min break, we're a nation of 'eating on the go'.. think I know how a battery hen feels..
 
Shadeyoak said:
Since the amount of people out of work increased, they can cherry pick their workforce.. it's a like it or you know where the door is attitude these days.. we're lucky to get that, there was talk of 10 mins.. they reckon the average British worker has 10-15 min break, we're a nation of 'eating on the go'.. think I know how a battery hen feels..
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Union? if its a temp job i'd go with the flow too but if it were permanent i'd be kicking up some s!!t
 
Ive never ever bought ready meals.....always cooked from scratch so feeling pretty damn smug right now. Even make my own burgers and chicken nuggets when the kids were little. When you get into the habit its not exactly backbreaking even with a full time job and horses......
 
weebarney said:
from what ive read these dodgy abbatoirs supply butchers as well so you're not even safe there.
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If you have a decent butcher, that cuts up their own beef, the cow gets delivered as half a side of cow. No way is that going to be mistaken for beef... I would also think that if any decent butcher was suspicious about what the meat was, it would get sent back.
 
I would doubt very much that a butcher would try and pass off horse for beef. They aren't going to start chucking out fillet steak of horse and expect their customers not to notice - it would ruin them. The only way this has been hidden is because it is in cook chill or premade meals, so you don't get to see the raw ingredients.

Buy beef from a butcher, not cheap muck from the supermarket. End of.
 
Our local butcher due to it being a small community everyone knows where meat comes from I even drive past the beef farmers that supply him(thank fully). We know one of the lads that works at the beef farm. etc I think the little shop in the town or village will be less likely to use dodgy. I too feel smug , smug that the passports we all knew would FAIL, and smug that I dont eat the c.....p that the supermarkets supply in a load of stuff?

Serves the greedy ******s right! Rip all those poor little souls that have ended up in their devious hands. But good too. It makes me smug and happy. Every day I open the papers I laugh.
 
I haven't eaten processed meals for a very long time. I love to cook from scratch and like to know where my ingredients are from.

I'm very lucky to live in a small town in East Devon which is really well served for butchers, a fishmonger, fruit & veg and a bakery.
 
i ve allways bought meat from the supermarket for convenience..it is one of the supermarkets not to be affected by the horsemeat scandal.
However ive used the local butcher, not much difference in cost but the taste difference is amazing.
When i was at the safe supermarket today the meat counters were really really busy though.
For those of you who haven t tried the local butchers yet...give it a try Just for one week.........you wont go back to the supermarket!
 
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