#Meat we eat

We eat a lot of meat in the UK and it is a very expensive commodity. Much of it is intensively reared of course.

I like the idea of being a vegetarian but it would be hugely difficult. I can go for periods just eating fruit, vegetables and pulses - and cheese - ha! but need for meat starts looming!

In the UK it is chicken, pork (lots of bacon), beef and lamb. We are typically so set in our ways. We are so squeamish too - only eat what we know - nothing the slightest unusual. It is invariably packaged - almost to deny it was once alive.

I have just been to a local butcher. 2 local wild rabbits - skinned cleaned and portioned, a brace of pheasants - plucked, some liver and 4 packs of bacon off cuts - £17.43. What a bargain. So much better than standard supermarket fare - but not everyone would think so.