This is definitely not the least expensive meat that you can find online but it will almost certainly be some of the highest quality. Aubrey Allen is an award winning catering butcher offering Aberdeenshire beef, free range poultry and Cornish lamb alongside their venison, game and sausages and you can also order barbequeu packs and chef prepared meals and sauces.

Daylesford specialises in fresh, seasonal, organic produce from their own estate, and here you can order fruit and vegetables, poultry, game, fish, pies, terrines, cheeses and pantry goods (dressings, chutneys and more) plus breads and sweets and bath and body products. The list is extensive, the website extremely easy on the eye so take a look round now. Some items are available for overseas delivery.

Graig Farm Organics is an award winning pioneer of organic meats and other organic foods in the UK. The range is very extensive and includes meat (organic beef, lamb, mutton, pork, chicken and turkey, as well as local game and goat meat) ready meals, fish, baby food, dairy, bread, groceries, vegetables and fruit, soups and salads, alcoholic drinks, a gluten-free range, and even pet food, plus herbal remedies and essential oils.

Lane Farm is a family run farming business based in the Suffolk countryside, who produce a wide range of quality pork products from their own home produced pork. You can order sausages with names like Winter Warmer and Italian Spice and Garlic, stir fry pork strips, lemon and pepper steaks, and Suffolk Roast (stuffed with apricots and wrapped in bacon), plus their own, sweet cured bacon and gammon. To order you need to call, fax or email them.

For a high quality product, well designed site and enthusiastic service this online butcher takes a lot of beating. Based in the north of Scotland near Inverness (and yes near to Cawdor Castle in case any of you are up on your Shakespeare) this is a traditional Scottish butcher and game dealer. Order your haggis here for Burn’s night and if you’re giving a big party call them and ask to speak to Jock who will almost certainly be as helpful to you as he is to us on our visits to the north.

Depending on the season, Somerset Organics provide their own organic Angus beef, Rare Breed Bershire Pork and Organic Lamb, all of which are farmed by themselves at Gilcombe Farm. They also stock a full range of meats and poultry reared on local organic farms plus non organic free range meats. The dairy range includes stilton, brie and vintage cheddar plus milk and cream and you can order your fruit and veg boxes here as well.