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Preserving Meat: Techniques for Wholesale Butchers

Preserving Meat: Techniques for Wholesale Butchers

The Importance of Preserving Meat Mastering the art of preserving meat is crucial for a wholesale butcher to ensure quality, extend shelf life, and maintain customer satisfaction. At IMS of Smithfield, we understand the importance of delivering top-notch products to…

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Understanding the Importance of Halal Meat

Understanding the Importance of Halal Meat

Choosing a Trusted Halal Meats Supplier In the diverse culinary landscape of London, halal meats hold a significant place. For many caterers and restaurant owners, understanding the importance of halal meat is essential for serving a broad customer base and…

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A London wholesale butchers 2022 year in review

A London wholesale butchers 2022 year in review

Training your catering team with your London wholesale butchers For over a decade, the London Butchery Academy at IMS of Smithfield has trained hundreds of chefs and catering teams throughout the UK to develop their meat preparation skills. Our specialised…

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Encourage healthy eating choices in schools in 2022

Encourage healthy eating choices in schools in 2022

Why is healthy eating in schools so important? Children spend between 6-8 hours of their days at school. During this time, they may attend breakfast club, have school meals, and they could eat during wrap-around care in the afternoons and…

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BBQ Hampers to impress your guests

BBQ Hampers to impress your guests

After such an uncertain and difficult 18 months, missing much loved time with our family and friends in the garden, what could be more exciting than planning a BBQ to celebrate and catch up on lost time? Our BBQ hampers,…

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Be Sure to Choose Healthy Cuts of Beef

Be Sure to Choose Healthy Cuts of Beef

Most of us care about what we eat, where it comes from, how it was produced and how healthy, or otherwise, it is to eat. Here, we take a look at how you can incorporate delicious healthy cuts of beef…

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How To Choose The Perfect Roasting Joint

How To Choose The Perfect Roasting Joint

As the colder weather draws in and the temperature drops, families and diners look for comforting meals that will sustain them and bring them joy. At IMS of Smithfield, we firmly believe that every meal should make everyone happy, which…

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How To Find The Right Halal Butchers

How To Find The Right Halal Butchers

If you are looking to buy Halal meats, then finding the right butcher can be a bit of a minefield. Do they follow the right Halal procedures? Has there been any cross-contamination with non-Halal products? Do they offer a wide-range…

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Introducing Our Online Meat Shop

Introducing Our Online Meat Shop

As one of London’s leading wholesale meat suppliers online, we are very happy to announce the extension of this service to the public. In these difficult times where people are unable or hesitant to venture into their local supermarket or…

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Popular Food Trends for Restaurant Owners in 2017

Popular Food Trends for Restaurant Owners in 2017

2017 is promising to be an interesting year for the hospitality industry. The impact of the EU referendum has been a weak pound, which may well encourage international visitors to our hotels and restaurants. The forecast for growth in the…

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Quick and Easy Chicken Recipes

Quick and Easy Chicken Recipes

When it comes to chicken, we’re confident we know a thing or two about the world’s most popular type of poultry. As one of the leading and best wholesale poultry suppliers in London, we only source the best quality products…

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Top Foodie Trends for 2020

Top Foodie Trends for 2020

January isn’t the greatest month, we all feel sluggish for overindulgence at Christmas, it’s cold and wet, and even worse, summer feels like a lifetime away. But don’t despair! If you’re a lover of all things food, then there’s a…

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Top British Food & Drink Awareness Days

Top British Food & Drink Awareness Days

As London butchers and lovers of all things ‘food & drink’ we’re constantly on the look-out for the best of British when it comes to awareness days.  Here’s our research on the upcoming awareness days for 2020 - get involved,…

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Catering Tips for Weddings

Catering Tips for Weddings

One of the things your guests will remember after your wedding is the catering. No matter whether the food was good or bad, it’s something they will take with them to the next wedding, and the next, and the next.…

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Popular National Food Holidays in the UK

Popular National Food Holidays in the UK

Popular National Food Celebration Days in the UK A Celebration of UK food These days, it can seem as though we have a day for everything, but when it comes to UK national food days, we have much to celebrate.…

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10 popular cuts of lamb in the UK

10 popular cuts of lamb in the UK

To this day, Lamb still remains a menu favourite with UK diners. With its excellent flavour and tender meat, it?s no surprise that (according to the AHDB) we ate around 70,000 tonnes of this delicious meat in the last year.…

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Important Tips For Cooking Chicken

Important Tips For Cooking Chicken

Chicken is one of the most versatile meats that can be cooked in a multitude of ways. It has a mild delicate flavour and cooked right can have a soft succulent texture, which just melts in the mouth. It is…

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Halal Food Guide

Halal Food Guide

You may have heard of the term halal many times, but not have much idea of what it means unless you?re a Muslim. The word halal comes from an Arabic word which means ?lawful?. The opposite of halal, and therefore…

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Top 5 Cured Meats And Their Origins

Top 5 Cured Meats And Their Origins

In this month?s post, we?re going to be looking at cured meats and their origins. There are some great favourites here, ones we enjoy week in week out if we?re a meat lover. Cured meat not only tastes great but…

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Top 5 Game Meats Eaten in the UK

Top 5 Game Meats Eaten in the UK

In our post this month, we?re going to be looking at the different types of game meat, and focusing on the top 5 eaten in the UK. It?s true that game meats have become increasingly popular, and are so delicious…

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The Secret Benefits Of Beef

The Secret Benefits Of Beef

For years, many people have been thinking about beef in all the wrong ways. The benefits and attributes of fish and chicken have been lauded for years on end, while red meat, such as beef, is seen as being entirely…

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5 Essential Tips For Delicious Chicken Dishes

5 Essential Tips For Delicious Chicken Dishes

Our love affair with chicken meat started some 10,000 years ago. Today, in modern Britain you would be hard-pushed to find a menu without at least one chicken dish, but many people are wary about preparing chicken, as it is…

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5 Practical Ideas for In Office Catering

5 Practical Ideas for In Office Catering

With limited equipment, enclosed spaces and business to attend to, in office catering can be a challenge. For caterers working to serve up something special in a corporate environment, there are dozens of hurdles and hitches to navigate ? all…

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5 Halal BBQ Tips for Summer

5 Halal BBQ Tips for Summer

Summer's coming, which can mean just one thing for meat lovers: It's barbecue time. Whether you're catering a relaxed wedding, or a big outdoors event, putting on a sizzling spread which impresses every guest is a great way to keep…

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5 Big, Meaty Mistakes to Avoid When Cooking Steak

5 Big, Meaty Mistakes to Avoid When Cooking Steak

Sometimes the simplest recipes are the trickiest to perfect. When you're serving up something that's ?simply? delicious, you need to get it spot on. Steak is the ultimate challenge for lovers of pared back, perfect food. Get it right and…

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