A first order with an online butcher is where people either get addicted or get a freezer full of strangers. Buy packs you already know how to cook, in sizes you will finish, plus one small curiosity. Do not buy a 5kg of anything until you have cooked our 1kg. Essentials hampers exist for that reason. So do 2x steak packs. The site will let you click a warehouse. Your fridge will not thank you.
A sane first basket
Sirloin Steak 2x 6oz or the 2x 8oz if you eat a bigger steak. Chicken Breast 1kg for two easy nights. 6x Pork Sausages - 350g Pack for a breakfast or a bun. That is a first order that tells you how we cut, how we pack, and how delivery lands in your kitchen. Add a small box such as Double Up Essentials Hamper – Second for £5 only if you want a mixed taster and you will eat mixed meat.
Skip THE BEAST, skip 6kg of misshaped chicken, skip a 24 of burgers unless you already had a party date. Those packs are not traps. They are just the wrong chapter for night one. Shop steak for two if the household is two people. Shop a family pack if you already cook for four every night. Match the pack to last week’s real dinners, not to a version of yourself who meal-preps in an advert.
What you are testing
You are testing ice packs, timing, whether the steak eats as you hoped, whether the chicken is the size you expected. You are not testing whether you can spend like a catering firm. If the first order goes well, the second order can be bulk. If it does not, you have not bought a chest freezer’s worth of regret. That is the only first-order strategy that is polite to your future self.
Notes on the second click
After you have cooked the 2x and the 1kg, you will know whether to step up to 6x steaks or 5kg of breast. That knowledge is worth more than any badge on the site. We would rather a small first order and a confident second than a giant first order and a silent customer. Pack sizes are a conversation. Start it quietly.
If a friend told you to buy the biggest box on the site, smile and still buy the 2x and the 1kg. Friends do not unload your freezer. You do. A first order is a sample of how we work. Treat it as a sample and the second order can be brave.