We are celebrating National Butchers Week which kicks off on Monday and to do so, two of us are going head to head to win the accolade of being the sexiest in their trade. Yes really! Myself (Jock ) and our head butcher Kevin Cargill are competing against each other to secure the Sexiest Butcher title which is being run …

Macbeth’s is promising to get our customers’ love lives sizzling after launching a special sausage to celebrate Valentine’s day. We have created the meaty treat to ensure this annual day of romance goes off with a bang-er. At the heart of the idea was Macbeth’s Butcher and Game Dealer owner Jock Gibson. Based on our award winning pork sausage recipe, Jock and …

Macbeth’s is supporting National Breakfast Week and what better way to start the day than with one of their specially put together breakfast hampers. The breakfast pack contains everything you need necessary for the king of breakfasts. Packed with pork sausage, lorne sausage, middle bacon and the newly rebranded superfood black pudding, it’s everything you need to kick start your …

Macbeth’s has lifted the lid on the highly secretive practice of haggis hunting and allowed the public to see a trap being laid, baited and harvested for the first time in an extensive video. Macbeth’s has created a video giving a rare insight into the intricacies of catching the elusive wild haggis. The footage has been made in the run …

Champions of the cooked breakfast have something to cheer about as we enter 2016 – and so do we – as the much loved black pudding has been hailed a superfood. Yes, that’s right, the food we all love to love, but our bodies love to hate is in fact apparently good for you. This humble fare made from oats, …

Whether it’s turkey, venison or beef you opt for at Christmas, there are bound to be leftovers. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without them. But rather than just slapping the remnants between a couple of bits of bread, why not try something a bit more inspiring instead? To make it easy, we have collated some of our favourite recipes to tickle …

CHRISTMAS day cooking can be stressful even for the most experienced of cooks. The kids are high on chocolate, there’s wrapping paper everywhere, you can’t find the batteries for that one toy out of a 100 that the little one wants to play with and the in-laws have arrived. And that’s all before 10am! One way to deal with it …

Not long until we load up Santa’s sleigh. Here are our key dates in the run up to Christmas. Now: Taking orders for Christmas.  The sooner you can order for Christmas the better. You can delay delivery until nearer Christmas and it ensures we have availability of what you want Friday 18th December: Last orders for guaranteed Christmas delivery Monday …

The poor old sausage ain’t half getting a sizzling in in the press over the last few weeks. In many blogs, articles and TV news stories it’s been slung in the same old group as processed meats which have been criticised as being just as bad for us to consume as cigarettes. We begged to differ on that in a …

Macbeth’s is delighted to have been recommended as the go-to place for people who are following a Paleo diet. We actually got the shout out on a Paleo eaters Facebook group. What is paleo? Paleo is a lifestyle choice in which people doing it follow dietary recommendations that would have been consumed by our ancestors millions of years ago. The …