Some organic suppliers prepare meat to order instead of selling fixed packs. The archived pages of a Devon organic seller, which supplied customers across the UK, gave a few concrete examples. This page explains the idea. It describes a historical practice and does not offer a service.
Cut to your requirements
The archive said most meat could be cut to order, by size and packed by weight or by number. Some allowance had to be made for the carcass itself, for example with chops and legs, and with chicken or chicken portions the supplier tried to come as close as it could to the size requested.
An example
If a customer wanted a kilo of pork and apple sausages packed in fours, the order would be prepared that way. The same approach applies to other items: a customer asks, and the supplier packs accordingly.
Why it suits households
- Packs can match family size, which reduces waste.
- Portions are easy to freeze separately.
- Customers can specify weights for recipes.
The wider range
Along with meat, the seller listed cheese, butter, eggs, fish, wine, beer, cordial, a weekly vegetable box scheme and vegetarian tofu burgers and roasts. Meat products included sausages, burgers, home dry-cured and smoked bacon, and cooked sliced ham and beef.
Ordering methods
The archive said orders could be taken by post, phone, email or the online system, and that major credit cards were accepted. Those arrangements are of historical interest only.
Related pages include organic meat and standards for organic meat.