I’ve just bought a bargain gammon joint from the Sainsburys Basics range. I have bought a few things from their basic range before and it’s usually quite good so I have high hopes for my little gammon joint.
It’s starting it’s food journey in the slow cooker where I plan to cook it to perfection (probably not knowing me lol). I’m going to use the stock to make a nice soup with dumplings for lunch tommorrow and I’ll see if I can find some new ideas for recipes to use the ham for. I’ll let you know what I find.
I have a couple of recipes that I have used before to cook gammon and to make the Soup and dumplings but I am going to try and find something different to do with the joint following the success of this weeks meal plan challenge (more about that later).
I know a lot of people don’t buy cheap meat for many reasons and I do try to buy organic, free range food wherever I can but if I made the decision to only eat meat that was organic and free range my food budget would need some serious work. I think it’s a gradual thing for me, I will only buy free range eggs and I have started to buy free range chickens too so I’m getting there…. Slowly but surely.
If anyone’s got any ideas what I could make, please feel free to share 
What a nice write-up! I’m so glad you decided to write about it.
Hi
I keep commenting on this and it keeps disappearing! I'll try again lol….
We ended up with ham and split pea soup and sliced gammon with baby potatoes
I used the last bits in a quiche.
Thanks for the ideas x
I tend to use ham shank or gammon joints in a pea & ham soup.
I soak the ham overnight to remove the worst of the salt, (soak the dried peas seperately), put the meat in the slow cooker. As soon as I get home from work I take the meat out of the slow cooker, skim the fat, dump in the pre soaked peas & leave to cook for a couple of hours.
Just before serving I throw the meat (now stripped off the bone) back in to warm through. I also make this with other veggies & have a yummy, healthy veg soup with big chunks of gammon. Lovely!
When I say "it's delicious sprinkled with chopped onion", I mean the gammon, green beans and potatoes combo. I usually cook all three together in the slow cooker but it's a bit late for you to do that!
I would serve it with boiled potatoes (not new, more like the kind you would use to make mashed) and green beans. It's delicious sprinkled with chopped onion. Try chopping the gammon and mixing it into macaroni and cheese, or into an omelet or quiche. I can't quite tell how big the joint is so I'm not sure how far it will stretch.