How much do you spend on average for Dinner?

[Trillian]

LOL MD, you're right! Loin chops are expensive in the city too, I forgot about that. I take it for granted too much that we dont have to buy lamb, so I forget how much it costs in the shops.

OK, here is a tip. If you buy your meat at a butcher, ask for Hogget as opposed to Lamb because a Hogget is an older lamb, and in theory not supposed to be worth as much but Lamb is much dearer. Some butchers will sell Hoggets for as much as lamb and label it as lamb, which is technically true but tere is a difference, but people who don't have knowledge of that wont realise there is a difference. You could even ask if they have Mutton, which is older sheep - no longer lambs. Not many butchers in the city would sell Mutton and certainly not the supermarkets but it wont hurt to ask because it is cheaper again.

And currently lamb is really expensive and will be for quite some time. The market is really strong for Aussie lamb and sale prices are at record highs and the cost that the buyers pay in the sale yards is passed onto the consumer, hence the high prices of it. Beef however is dropping slightly so cuts of beef will be cheaper than lamb.

The bitter irony is, you are lamenting at the cost of lamb, but we profit from that because we sell them for so much. On friday we sold 60 lambs at sale and got $128 per head for them!