Venison

Truly wild food that is good for consumers to eat and environmentally friendly? In this week’s newsletter I am looking at the wonders of home grown venison - a wild, healthy, lean meat from animals that have led a fantastic freely roaming life. For much the same reason they’re so nutritious: they feed by browsing trees and grazing on all available vegetation. When well-managed, deer populations can exist in harmony with the natural environment, so to keep the deer numbers under control, eating venison is really a responsible, sustainable choice that helps the environment.  

So it makes enormous sense for us to eat more of this amazing meat and at Lidgates we are proud to have a  brilliant range of venison choices from our venison fillet, venison sausage - a dark and rich sausage made with fresh venison, and a little free range pork, seasoned with herbs and spices and marinated in merlot with crushed juniper berries and diced venison from selected Yorkshire pastures which is perfect for casseroles and stews.
 
Venison is a great source of protein, incredibly low in fat, and its levels of saturated fat are much lower than in other red meats like beef. It also contains minerals that are good for our health, including iron, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc as well as vitamins B6 and B12, riboflavin, niacin, and thiamine.  It is one of the healthiest meats on the market.