Lots to beef about!

Have you noticed that one of our UK supermarket chains has changed the packaging of their minced beef? It’s now vacuum packed into a brick-type shape and looks more like the ground beef found in the USA. Now, I have no problem with this and used some last week for my slow cooked bolognaise sauce – always handy when young friends are due to arrive at variable times. Admittedly the meat needed more prodding and stirring to break it up but it was so much more “meaty” than the worm-like strands we’d previously dealt with. The BBC homepage had reported on consumers opinions and stupidly I decided to add my two penn’orth. Within minutes there were responses from all sorts of people from all corners of the UK, but I stand by my findings. There is less packaging, the flavour is great and the texture is an improvement. Definitely a change for the better!