........can anyone recommend...

[Purple_Popple]

...a lean sausage....the probelm is I adore the smell and sausages cooking, but i avoid eating them as any I have had were just mouthfulls of fat and gristle...what are the best pre-pacled supermarket ones - or should I just go for fresh ones from a butchers ? I want to start eating them again....without the fear of biting on a chunk of 'gag' inducing gristle as it just puts me off...

[seadogg]

Depends where you live to some extent as premium local sausage is usually good and has less of the cheaper fat and gristle.

[bennhoughton]

lincolnshire sausages a reknowned and i would highly recommend if you could get hold of any wherever in the world you are :)

[bloomwood]

PP, are you sure you arent my daughter? she could have wrote the above, terrified of biting into sausage because of GRISTLE!!!! She actually has found a sausage she will eat, Richmond, you know the pink ones,she reckons there is no gristle what so ever. Try them.

[DTCwordfan]

have you thought about making them...then you can control what goes in?

Not sure who gives courses here without googling. I went on a course at my deli just outside Paris many years ago, sausages/andouilletes, blood sausages (boudin noir et blanc), terrines, rillettes etc - a lot of fun!

[pastafreak]

I wouldn't touch Richmond after reading this.. http://www.jamieolive...iewtopic.php?id=23210

You are much better off finding good local sausages in a framers market,or independent butchers.

[Purple_Popple]

thanks all! Smiling @ bloomwood now...are Richmond pork sausages ? I am minded that the BBQ season is not far away again and as I hate burgers (for the same reason) I am limited as to what i eat at friends BBQs...as not many people i know seem, to cook things such as fish or chicken on their BBQs as it can be expensive, so cheap burgers and sausages are on the menu...

[gingejbee]

I find that Waitrose sausages (pre-packed and from the butchery counter) take some beating - as far as supermarkets go.

[Purple_Popple]

The only sausages I 'like' are the vegetarian ones made by Cauldron Foods....

[bloomwood]

Think so PP,Holly would try them if they were pork.

[bloomwood]

Pasta I know,have seen this before, daughter obviously hasn't.

[mccfluff]

tesco finest pork sausages are really nice

[boxtops]

Agree with mcfluff, but it has to be Tesco Finest - some of their flavour sausages are lovely. Try the Aberdeen Angus beef one, or pork and apricot, or pork and red onion <<oh dear, my mouth is watering>>

[sherrardk]

I have started buying thin pork sausages from a local butcher which everyon seems to love in our house, and whilst I don't eat sausages I will eat one of these in a hot dog roll if I am doing them for the kids and I am really hungry.

[Jan1957]

Now you've made me really hungry. Sausage, onions, mash and gravy, lovely.

[horseshoes]

There are sausages by Mr Edwards of Conway. They sell them in Tesco and in Asda, but I don't know if it is all the UK or just in Wales. They are FABULOUS but are MUCH dearer than most sausages. Well worth a try.

[Twirls]

we sometimes get ours from Abel & Cole (abel-cole.co.uk) and sometimes from Morrisons (from butchers counter, not pre-packed). Not sure where you are re A&C but worth checking out.

[jubieanna]

donald russell. they are scottish company that deliver meat. their sausages are lovely and lean. no gristle i guarantee it! they are expensive though

[237SJ]

Try Debbie & Andrew`s (available in Waitrose). Some of them are 97% meat.

[bushbaby_de]

I second the vote for Debbie and Andrews (which I get from Tesco) very very nice :)