Bill’s Butcher Counter Book

Get proper meat for less, and cook it so it eats like the dear stuff.

Bill's Butcher Counter Book is a 68-page, large-print guide to buying meat like a butcher and cooking the cheaper cuts so they're tender and full of flavour. It's laid out for A4, so you can print the pages you need.

What's inside:

- Prices per kilo for about 35 cuts, so you know a bargain when you see one

- How to read a meat label and spot when you're paying meat prices for water

- Cheap cuts that beat the dear ones, cut by cut, for beef, pork, lamb and chicken

- What to ask for at the meat counter

- How to joint a chicken, step by step with drawings

- Roasting times for beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey and gammon

- Eight slow cooker recipes, including Lancashire hotpot

- Cooking for one or two, and five mince dinners

- Keeping meat safe, and a troubleshooting page for when things go wrong

What you get: a PDF you can download straight after you pay. A copy of the download link is emailed to you too.

Food safety advice follows Food Standards Agency guidance, and roasting times follow the meat industry's own guides. Prices are approximate and were checked in November 2026. The book doesn't give medical, diet or nutrition advice.

Bill Entwistle is a presenter character, and his stories are illustrative.

Please note: this is a digital download, so refunds aren't available if you change your mind. Do have a look at the sample pages above first. If the file won't download or open, email hello@askbillthebutcher.co.uk and we'll sort it out.