The head of the Ukrainian Association of Distribution Network Suppliers Aleksey Doroshenko is sure that meat for the New Year feast should not be purchased in the last days of December.

“On these hot days, meat prices will peak,” Doroshenko said. - But if you come to the market or to the butcher shop a week before the New Year. The cost will be optimal, the choice will be exhaustive, and there will be enough time before the holiday to put the meat in the freezer for several days, decide on the menu and slowly defrost the product before cooking. ”

According to the head of the association of suppliers, the most active rise in price awaits chicken meat. The prices for beef and pork will not rise so significantly, and it is on them that Doroshenko recommends that the housewives stop their attention.

Experts in the choice of meat. Meanwhile, they remind you that the choice of meat is almost a whole science, the realization of which all life can take. They continue this poetic remark with practical advice: “Try to buy meat not in the supermarket, where it is packed in a vacuum, but in the market. After all, it is on the market that you can fully evaluate all the features and characteristics of meat. ”

You can familiarize yourself with the signs that distinguish good meat from low-quality meat at meat selling points and on the Internet.