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Perry Groves Feb 19th 2007 8:48 am

Meat prices
 
Is meat such as beef, Lamb and Pork expensive in Canada compared to the U.K?

iaink Feb 19th 2007 8:50 am

Re: Meat prices
 
Beef is cheap...much cheaper than the UK

Lamb always seems expensive

Pork is not so bad AFAIK

Hard to say, what does it all cost in the UK now anyway?

Perry Groves Feb 19th 2007 8:56 am

Re: Meat prices
 
Lamb is expensive here as well, just paid £4.00 for 4 tiny chops.

Beef is not too expensive, around £4.00 for a couple of sirloin steaks perhaps.

Pork is relatively cheap, £3.00 for 4 large chops.

Can you get Ostrich meat cheaply in Canada?

iaink Feb 19th 2007 8:58 am

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by Perry Groves (Post 4423551)

Can you get Ostrich meat cheaply in Canada?

Don't know what it costs, but you can get it. I drive past a couple of very cold ostriches and a few equally chilly emu on the way to town. Always strikes me as rather surreal.

daft batty Feb 19th 2007 9:02 am

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by Perry Groves (Post 4423551)
Lamb is expensive here as well, just paid £4.00 for 4 tiny chops.

Beef is not too expensive, around £4.00 for a couple of sirloin steaks perhaps.

Pork is relatively cheap, £3.00 for 4 large chops.

Can you get Ostrich meat cheaply in Canada?

Beef has gone down in pirce then in the last 6 months, i could never buy 2 sirloin steaks for £4, or pay that for pork. Where are you shopping?

I would have said that beef is cheap here, as is pork. Chicken is more expensive, but after seeing your prices who knows!

iaink Feb 19th 2007 9:15 am

Re: Meat prices
 
In this weeks flyers

Boneless skinless chicken breasts 2.97 / lb 6.55/kg (1/2 price) (this is REALLY cheap, other flyers are advertising at 4.99/lb)

Pork Tenderloin 2.99/lb 6.59/kg

Top Sirloin 5.99/lb 12.21/kg

T-bone 8.99 /lb


No lamb to be found...its usually frozen when I see it anyway.

Perry Groves Feb 19th 2007 9:17 am

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by batty-x-ray (Post 4423565)
Beef has gone down in pirce then in the last 6 months, i could never buy 2 sirloin steaks for £4, or pay that for pork. Where are you shopping?

I would have said that beef is cheap here, as is pork. Chicken is more expensive, but after seeing your prices who knows!


I usually go to Tesco, although Sainsburys and Asda are also quite cheap. Chicken is quite cheap but seems a bit "pumped up" compared to in some countries in Europe.

R I C H Feb 19th 2007 10:45 am

Re: Meat prices
 
We buy a couple of fully butchered lambs from a neighbour each spring - they cost us $100 each. We just put them in the deep freeze and consume them over time. Far better value than the supermarkets.

R2D2 Feb 19th 2007 1:19 pm

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 4423943)
We buy a couple of fully butchered lambs from a neighbour each spring - they cost us $100 each. We just put them in the deep freeze and consume them over time. Far better value than the supermarkets.


When I first read that, i thought you'd written......" a couple of FLUFFY butchered lambs", and I gasped in horror !:eek:

As for buying lamb, well I saw some last week in Save-On-Foods and grabbed it as it was the only fresh lamb in the entire store as far as I could see. $5.30 ish for a sizeable piece, (not chops. ) Tasted.........a little different actually. :huh:

Sutherlands Feb 19th 2007 1:24 pm

Re: Meat prices
 
Have found the chicken to be more, pork around the same amount but it tastes so much better than the pork back home. Beef slightly cheaper.

Also it depends where you shop as well, we are slowly making the rounds of all the local shops and do see the prices jump from one shop to another.

To change the subject but keeping it on food ""BISCUITS"" cost an arm and leg at $3.60 for a pack of them, have now found the DOLLAR :rofl: shops that sell them and with 2 kids/hubby eating them, that is going to be a saving.

R I C H Feb 19th 2007 1:33 pm

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by R2D2 (Post 4424434)
When I first read that, i thought you'd written......" a couple of FLUFFY butchered lambs", and I gasped in horror !:eek:

As for buying lamb, well I saw some last week in Save-On-Foods and grabbed it as it was the only fresh lamb in the entire store as far as I could see. $5.30 ish for a sizeable piece, (not chops. ) Tasted.........a little different actually. :huh:

Ha! - no doubt they were cute and fluffy at one point. Now they're thick yummy chops, and tasty roasts.

I find lamb here tastes a little gamier than back in the UK.

R2D2 Feb 19th 2007 1:43 pm

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by R I C H (Post 4424453)
I find lamb here tastes a little gamier than back in the UK.


That's probably it. That was the first piece of lamb weve had since we got here (Never had it very often in the UK either.)

I would say here in AB that the beef is loads cheaper than the UK. Pork....sameish, Chicken, a little more. I would agree with the poster who said to shop around. It does vary a lot. I tend to get my meat products from Save - On, as they do good value big packs.


To change the subject yet again................GREETING CARDS. I had been getting them from stores like Superstore, Wallyworld etc etc, but have now discovered the cheap and cheerful haven that is "Crazy 8's" Cards for 88c.
And not ALL crappy. I got some lovely handmade ones for that. Beats the Dollar store...............by 12c coincidentally !

Novocastrian Feb 19th 2007 2:48 pm

Re: Meat prices
 
Good God. Is this what this board has come to?

OK, It's about time I started researching the price of goat in Albania

C'mon guys!

I mean. know I'm guilty too, but bandwidth folks.

Perry Groves Feb 19th 2007 6:28 pm

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 4424595)
Good God. Is this what this board has come to?

OK, It's about time I started researching the price of goat in Albania

C'mon guys!

I mean. know I'm guilty too, but bandwidth folks.

I am quite partial to Goat Curry so your research could prove useful:)

How about Vension and Rabbit, also does anyone eat roadkill over there in the same people here eat Badgers etc?

dingbat Feb 19th 2007 7:06 pm

Re: Meat prices
 

Originally Posted by Perry Groves (Post 4429106)
I am quite partial to Goat Curry so your research could prove useful:)

How about Vension and Rabbit, also does anyone eat roadkill over there in the same people here eat Badgers etc?


Roadkill = hedgehogs. Selling for $90 a piece in Petcetera as I type. I am baffled. I have consumed four beers however. :blink:


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