Many years ago, I worked for a great firm who gave everyone on the staff a turkey and a joint of pork. There was also a bottle of Scotch included.
As nobody in the family really liked turkey that much (a senior journalist on a national rag once compared it with 'a boiled mattress'), I asked if we could have the equivalent in beef...
The result was a joint about 18" long of best sirloin, and even after cutting in half (for Easter), it was just a fabulous present, and lasted the five of us for ages! The pork joint was just as good as well!
Mrs Growster bought me a small joint for Christmas, (she's off beef at the moment) and it came to just over a fiver, and will last me roughly the same time as the huge one all those years ago..:0) But a Waitrose ready packed and herbed chicken at £4.00 was just too good to miss! (They were even £3 earlier in the year, but that didn't stay long enough in the freezer I can assure you)!