Eat Out at Home – with the Lucas Menu

There’s little doubt that it will be a long time before most people are ready to go back to eating out at cafes, restaurants, bars and pubs, (ah, remember those places?), which means that butchers have an opportunity to go beyond supplying simple meats: Here’s the ideal time to offer meats and ready meals that are similar to those that customers would normally enjoy when they’re eating out.

This is the chance to maintain the momentum and customer base that you have built up during this unprecedented situation.  It’s the time to lock those customers in to your business and to help them think of their local butcher as the place to go when they want something special for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or just a snack.  Something they can prepare at home that will be great quality and just as delicious as a meal eaten out.  More often than not, it will be much cheaper too!

With this in mind, we’ve put together a “Menu” of options for eating out at home.  Hopefully, our menu will inspire you and give you some fresh ideas that will help you help your customers.  Be adventurous and creative and it will certainly pay dividends.

We’ve carved up the Menu (excuse the pun) into different eating options.  These include “Starters/Snacks/Sharing Platters”, “Ploughman’s Picnic”, “Jacket Potatoes”, “Wraps/Sandwiches/Salads”, “Ready Meals”, “Pie & Mash”, “From the Grill”, “Burgers”, “Side Dishes”, “Lifestyle Choices” and “Children’s Dishes”.  Within each category is a selection of meal choices that you can produce using Lucas ingredients and mixes.  There are recipes, demonstration videos and pictures on our website that give guidance on how to get the best results from your Lucas products – though they’re all very simple to use, sometimes an extra bit of information is useful. 

As time goes on, butchers will need to become more versatile – going beyond the everyday fare of quality meats, sausages and burgers that you would generally produce, to create the illusion of eating out in the home.   You might want to use the Menu as the basis for a series of “specials” for your customers – take away a picnic, bag an all-day breakfast, afternoon tea in a box, something on the side, ploughmans in a pack.  Or, how about making a meal deal: steak with garlic butter and cheesy mash; gammon steak and cauliflower cheese? But remember – that eating out might reflect not just the UK, but eating out on holiday abroad too. With Lucas, you’ll be able to create dishes that emulate holiday flavours, at home.

This is such an exciting time for retail butchers and we’re delighted to be able to work with you to keep us all going as we stay at home for the best eating experience of all!

Once again Dalziel have teamed up with MRC, Lucas and our own Spiceblenders to offer you this fantastic 4 for £44 deal. 

Congratulations to Michel Dufton from Knitsley Farm shop 

• Pork Burger meat (Your preferred choice)
• Sliceable Mushroom Sauce
• World Grill Seasalt & Lampong Pepper
• Baked Beans
• Black Pudding
• Cocktail Sausage wrapped in Streaky bacon
• Streaky Bacon
• Cherry Tomatoes
• 120mm Teppo Gushi Skewers

• Shape the Burger meat into 130g balls.
• Form into a basket shape using thumbs and fingers
• Brush inside and out with the Seasalt & Lampong World Grill
• Fill half of the basket with sliceable Mushroom Sauce and the fill with baked beans
  
• Wrap the basket with streaky bacon
• Place diced black pudding and sliceable Mushroom Sauce on top
• Skewer cherry tomato and cocktail sausage together and place on top of the truffle
• Ready to sell .....

Dalziel Ltd are proud sponsors of the 2018 Butchers Shop of the Year Awards.

The event

For 24 years, Butcher’s Shop of the Year Awards has endorsed and supported independent butchers – their service, craft skills and quality products.

There are 13 categories to look at and enter. The Awards provide a national platform for positive media attention  – whether a family run independent butchers in a rural location, or a chain of outlets.

The Butcher’s Shop of the Year Awards take pride in the integrity of the  two-phase judging process; first is a paper judging via a panel of industry experts and then moves to the coalface, one to one in your store, with our chair of judges.

The finalists are all invited to an exclusive awards lunch  Monday 5thNovember 2018 at Etc. Venues County Hall, London where the final winners are announced

This event is recognised for:

• Celebrating innovation and achievement
• A fun-filled lunch
• Ensuring everyone gets to meetnew people and  time to catch up with old friends
• Highlighting quality, provenance and community support

Main Categories

• Farm Shop of the Year
• Food Hall Butchery Business of the Year
• Halal Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• New Butchery Business of the Year
• Online Butchery Business of the Year
• Midlands & East of England Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• North of England Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• Northern Ireland Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• Scottish Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• South of England Butcher’s Shop of the Year
• Welsh Butcher’s Shop of the Year

Specialist Categories

• Innovation of the Year
• Young Butcher of the Year

Our 2017 Christmas Product Guide is out NOW!

Our 2016 Christmas Product Guide is out NOW!

After several months of planning and the taking of many, many pictures, we are pleased to announce the launch of our totally revamped website.

So what's new?.

We have a fresh new look to the website and an improved navigation that will allow you to find the information you need more quickly and easily.

If you are an existing account customer, on request we will send you your password and username (You can choose your own username, or use your email address) which will gain entry to your private web portal. This allows you access to

• Your pricing information for the products you purchase

• access to your product specifications

Your web portal will put information at your fingertips, and help fulfil some of the requirements demanded by the E.H.O., F.S.A. etc., and your duties for due diligence.

This new service gives us a fantastic platform to build on as we aim, as always, to continue to develop our service . Future planned developments include:

• View Statements

• Track existing orders

• Place new orders securely online.

We know how busy you are, but if you have a minute, have a browse of our new website and see what you think. It is not yet complete, and still a work in progress, but we’d welcome any feedback, thoughts and ideas.

Please note, If you are using the existing web portal this will still be available, and of course all of the services are available from our dedicated sales team.

All are welcome!

What is there to see?

What is there to do?