Lidl to sell Reindeer!
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There's Lidl about five miles from me, unfortunately it's closed for refurbishment, opening again in December, hope they have some Rudolph meat cos I wanna try it.
Defo getting some of this, my eldest loved venison so i reckon he'll be well up for this!
he liked kangaroo too
he liked kangaroo too
Had it a few years ago in Finland, it was cooked with 'wild' mushrooms (no cherry tomatoes)
Very good!
Off to Lidl then...
Very good!
Off to Lidl then...
If you live in Cheshire,Lancashire, Cumbria or Yorkshire there is a supermarket chain called Boothes. They have a promotion on for national game week. 30% off game meat at the moment. They do nice packs containing rabbit, venison, and some other gamemeat as well. They are doing various birds all prepared (including som very nice looking, small birds too). Wish I could tell you waht was on offer. The Rabbit meat was about £4 per kg IIRC. The Venison was a little more. All the meats were well packaged and as I said the game birds were prepared for the oven (some with the streaky bacon to keep it moist like you do on turkey).
I once lived over the hill from a deer farm. We went over there in a blizzard and saw a load of them stuck in a small field which we later saw was more mud than grass. On the blizzard day there was not much there for them to eat. There was an empty feed container. Surprised me at how big they were. Anyway never put me off my venison. Like a bit now and again but reindeer, well that is a real treat. Must get to a Lidl soon before they sell out.
When is it coming on the market?
BTW I am very lucky where I am as there is a new farm shop that sells game meat relatively cheaply and with living 10 minutes from Milnethorpe where there is a very good game butcher I think I am lucky. Don't go there enough. Then there is GRange not too far away. The butcher who owns the one in Grange, Cumbria who is supposed to be really good also owns the one in either Milnethorpe or Arnside AFAIK. Before moving here there were no places near me to buy game. I once lived near Southport and there was a good game butcher there. That was where we got our first rabbit from. Managed to pursuade my Dad to get one that we could prepare ourselves. I was only about 8 or 9 then but I was allowed to help skin and prepare it. It never bothered me one bit.
I once lived over the hill from a deer farm. We went over there in a blizzard and saw a load of them stuck in a small field which we later saw was more mud than grass. On the blizzard day there was not much there for them to eat. There was an empty feed container. Surprised me at how big they were. Anyway never put me off my venison. Like a bit now and again but reindeer, well that is a real treat. Must get to a Lidl soon before they sell out.
When is it coming on the market?
BTW I am very lucky where I am as there is a new farm shop that sells game meat relatively cheaply and with living 10 minutes from Milnethorpe where there is a very good game butcher I think I am lucky. Don't go there enough. Then there is GRange not too far away. The butcher who owns the one in Grange, Cumbria who is supposed to be really good also owns the one in either Milnethorpe or Arnside AFAIK. Before moving here there were no places near me to buy game. I once lived near Southport and there was a good game butcher there. That was where we got our first rabbit from. Managed to pursuade my Dad to get one that we could prepare ourselves. I was only about 8 or 9 then but I was allowed to help skin and prepare it. It never bothered me one bit.
Rudolph the red nose reindeer, makes a very tasty stew....
not seen a boothes tbh, i'm in warrington and our local market actually has a few game sellers on there. they had whole legs of venison for 9.99 the other week massive things!
they regularly have rabbit and seeing as its season they now have duck and pheasant
not seen a boothes tbh, i'm in warrington and our local market actually has a few game sellers on there. they had whole legs of venison for 9.99 the other week massive things!
they regularly have rabbit and seeing as its season they now have duck and pheasant
Off to Lidls tomorrow - I love the taste of reindeer. When I was backpacking in Scandinavia I managed to tread in a big pile of reindeer s***, and it was an absolute swine to get it off my boots, so I resolved to eat some reindeer in revenge. Revenge has never tasted so good!
Booths is great - we usually stop at the Windemere branch on the way to the Lakes, so it always signals the symbolic start of our trip 
Windermere is one of Booths biggest turnover stores I believe (Ulverston is another). It is a good one. Remember it opening. The Kirby Lonsdale one is also quite good IMHO. I once worked at their old head office in the Preston town centre. An excellent company to work for. They had sales of samples, unopened stuff. Basically for £0.10 per item you could take whatever you wanted to home. We would get a call from upstairs and we would go up and basically take whatever we wanted for 10p each. They did the same for wine samples, only these were opened and had a tiny bit taken out. These were only 50p for potentially a £15 bottle of wine. All monies went to the Chairmans charity of the year. They raised a lot surprisingly through these sales and other means. They were once in the top 10 employers in the country according to this big survey that got published in the Sunday TImes every year.
Sorry off topic but Booths is one of the few supermarkets I've been in that have game in there all year round. Venison is the main one but duck, partridge, pheasant are also there a lot.
Sorry off topic but Booths is one of the few supermarkets I've been in that have game in there all year round. Venison is the main one but duck, partridge, pheasant are also there a lot.
Just been past a Lidl today so popped in to see if they had any reindeer. Sold out unfortunately 
Just been past a Lidl today so popped in to see if they had any reindeer. Sold out unfortunately
I bet they can't keep up with the demand due to the press coverage.
forestwalker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Ground up and sold to horny Japanese men. At least that used to be the case for a large proportion of them.
People are really wierd about meats and animals aren't they. On a recent homeland visit, I went out lamping with air-rifles for bunnies with my nephew, and we did very well. I took a bunny round to a friend's house (skinned, jointed and frozen in a ziplock) as a gift. My mate was more than pleased, but his girlfriend was flipping out, saying she didn't want to see it, we couldn't store it in the freezer because it might "contaminate" things (with what, I don't know), that I was "cruel", and that the presence of the bunny meat was making her feel "queesy". I had a hard time biting my tongue, cause she was sat there saying all of this whilst eating a ready made, frozen chicken, microwave meal, which was doubtless made with factory farmed chicken, raised and nurtured on growth hormones for it's entire six months of life.
Reindeer.....beef.....it's just meat. The only difference is that I suspect (but don't know) that the reindeer had a better life than the cow, and was probably raised in a more natural and ethically sound environment.
Pete
Reindeer.....beef.....it's just meat. The only difference is that I suspect (but don't know) that the reindeer had a better life than the cow, and was probably raised in a more natural and ethically sound environment.
Pete
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