Props - Raw Meat

For scenes 2 - 4, Sam and Rob are eating the animal they caught out on the hunt in scene 1.
Once I had the final copy of the script, I knew that sourcing the raw meat would be the trickiest prop to find. I began by searching for ways to make a fake food props online on film sets and found a post by Eric Hart – a prop master and prop maker at Triad Stage in North Carolina.
http://www.props.eric-hart.com/how-to/fake-food-making-inedible-replicas/
This lead me to many forums more specifically targeting raw meat substitutes that are actually edible for the actors. Some suggestions included thick slices of bread dyed with red food colouring, red foam cut out or cooked chicken painted with red and blue dye. The latter being the option I thought likely to work best, after meeting with the actors I asked if there were any dietary requirements and unfortunately, the actor playing Sam was a vegetarian so the cooked chicken option was no longer going to work. I went back to searching for edible replicas and came across a post on a cake website about how to make a fake steak stage prop.  
https://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/760325/edible-raw-steak-for-stage-prop-help-please

Here I saw someone who had made a fake and edible steak using pancake mixture and food dye. Using pre-made pancake mixture and red food colouring I made 7 different sized ‘steaks’, half that looked raw and half that looked slightly more cooked and used a mixture of jam and jelly to make it look wet and bloody.
The night before we needed them, I made the plain pancakes and on set put the jam on them just before we started shooting so they still had the pancake texture without going soggy.

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