did anyone watch the Horizon programme about meat?

[**towery**]

i was just wondering what meats you eat

and how much

and how many times a day/week

[saasher2012]

True enough! But it does freeze well & comes down in price quite considerably during the season, I think though it's a meat that can be
A bit daunting if your not used to it People tend to buy the most expensive cuts but you can get the cheaper cuts that are ideal for making burgers, stews & pies.

[ilove2patch]

It's hard to find a proper butcher these days to buy good meat. I do find Aldi meat excellent quality though. Better by far than Asda & Tesco. British too.:)

[rainydaywoman11]

I missed the programme, but we are lucky enough to have a great local butcher and we buy from him.

Having said that, we are meat free, say, 2 or 3 nights a week.  That's me - my appetite is not good now - but I'll have a wee bit soup and a wee bit pasta and that does me.  I also have nutrition drinks I have every day.  We've just cooked 3lbs silverside, made 3 (2 portion) meals with gravy for the freezer, and OH had it tonight, with some leftover for lunch sandwiches.  No waste and cheaper by far than buying a ready meal.

My husband doesn't take statins either, well, yet 

[peteryola]

Towery - believe me, the meat part of my diet is unlikely to be the unhealthiest part of it, regardless of how much I have in the way of bacon and sausages...

[sheena-b]

I think you're right about cholesterol being hereditary - my husband has cooked breakfast every day...2 eggs, bacon (no fat though), sausage, beans, mushrooms and toast with butter.....and his cholesterol is LOW!!!! I think it's the gallons of tea he drinks....loads of anti oxidants!!!!

I'm just about normal and I have a bowl of nutty muesli in the morning! Having had a gastric bypass I can't eat a lot.... And my sugar tolerance is better now but I have to watch out as I sometimes get sugar dumping (like hypoglycaemia). We both like most meats but only have it a couple of times a week....apart from my OHs big breakfast!!! I loved buffalo...tried home made buffalo burgers the other week.... From Broughton .....delishus!!!! It's cheaper from the farm than Waitrose! It's lean and has quite a strong flavour.... Most beef mince is tasteless and needs several OXOs!!!

I think they spend too much time talking about what's bad for you ....and there are far too many cookery programmes! Makes me laugh about these so called superfoods....coconut with everything...,bowls of wild blueberries....it's all faddy! It will be something else next week....guaranteed to keep you alive for another few milliseconds!!!!

My daughter is in the RFA and when the marines are on board ship it honks to high heaven.... They are all on high protein diets....they all get 'windy' and you can guess the rest!!! It's not something you want to get used to!!!

[saasher2012]

I think it's like everything else, moderation & a good varied diet, plenty of fresh fruit & veg, I also think like everyone else that it's another fad , next week it'll be something else that you shouldn't eat.
Something else that occurs to me does it also depend on what lifestyle you have, if you are in a very physical job compared to sitting in an office all day, your Genetic makeup etc?

[**towery**]

lol  ran out of  edit time

was trying to say

Sam im not sure what you are calling a fad?

i think people need  education about  whats  a  portion size,

what  is regular?  a week? fortnight?  month?

going off on a tangent  we had a discussion  in a group  years ago  about bowel movements

while many people thought they 'went' regularly  it turned out  their ideas of  regular  ranged

from  twice daily  to  once in ten days - that person was shocked that  while they were  'regular'  it wasnt the same as most people

and moderation  is another  word that  is said a lot

sorry  gone  off  topic

i was interested to see what  people  ate, more portion size really

what do people think there should be more education on ?

[ilove2patch]

I think young people should be shown that cooking meals from scratch can be cheaper & healthier than the ready made junk on the supermarket shelves. The trouble seems to be time. They are in such a rush that they grab a ready meal or some other processed rubbish rather than cook properly. Ready made food has it's place but nothing beats a meal you have cooked yourself that you know what's in it.

[ginap.123]

Even people who have time seem to be of that mindset now Maggie. Ready meals & processed foods etc have become a way of life & not just used as a now&then convenience food. I work full time, go out, have hobbies etc but still cook virtually everything from scratch & supplement it all with plenty of fresh fruit and veg

[saasher2012]

Fad! What's good for you one week is bad for you the next, eat this oh no don't eat this eat that!
I think we have lost how to cook good cheap cuts of meat , that is of course if you can get it, as one poster said there are not many good butchers about now.
I was lucky I only ever ate the meat I produced myself including Venison, now I'm a town dweller it's different so I understand the problems, even fresh eggs, nah! They ain't ,

[chickengrandma-2008]

Perhaps it's something to do with working mothers?  I'm not knocking them, not at all, but perhaps because they work they have less time so they  buy convenience foods, so their children think that is the norm, and working mums don't have time to teach their children how to cook like stay at home mums often do.

I stayed at home and cooked from scratch, like my mum did.  She worked a lot of the time but there weren't ready meals then, even if she could have afforded them. My daughter cooks from scratch and is always making cakes and puddings and quiches etc.

I'm sure I heard recently that from September, all primary children between (something like) 8 and 12 were going to have cookery lessons.

[ilove2patch]

Both my grandchildren cook at school & Jamie cooks at Scouts as well. My daughter works & cooks good wholesome meals for the family with lots of vegetables. They have Pizza & things of that ilk sometimes but she was brought up to eat properly so she wants to do the same for her kids. I think I

Iceland has a lot to answer for! lol

[rose2008-2008]

I forgot about Turkey,,,i love Turkey especially those big legs you can buy in the Supermarket,,oohhh Gorgeous. Or the Iceland stuffed joints!!!!.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I've never been in Iceland so I don't know what they sell.  There is one in the next town but it's too far from a car park for me to be able to go there.

What I meant before was, if one mother uses ready meals, that's seen as normal by the children so that's what they do for their children.......and so it goes on.

[ginap.123]

But CG, I was a working mother & still cooked fresh & got the children involved with the preparing & cooking. Now it't the grandchildren that balance on s stool & the 3 & 4 year olds make their own pizzas etc.
I think half of the problem is that parents leave it to the schools to do everything now instead of teaching the kids the basics & also how people prioritise thier lives. I've seen non-working friends of my daughters on FB virtually 24/7 discussing all the tele programmes they've found time to watch but also moaning that they haven't got time to do anything else.