[cpdiii]

I bought a 4lb pack of chicken thighs yesterday for 1 dollar a pound at my local HEB Grocery in Texas. This was bone in with the skin. Once you take account for the waste of the bone and skin you are looking at about $1.50 a pound of pure meat.

When I shop I have a normal list of basics that I must have. I then round out my shopping basket with their specials.

Unfortunately beef is expensive everywhere in the USA due to the current shortage of feed and hay due to the weather the last two years. Also another factor is the use of ethanol for gasoline. It has made corn much more expensive due to the demand for government mandated use of ethanol in gasoline. As a long term fan of ethanol and gasoline I assure you ethanol is for drinking and gasoline is for burning in an internal combustion engine preferable with a displacement of of 396 cubic inches or greater. Muscle Cars, god I miss the 60s and 70s.

When you mix ethanol with gasoline it screws up the gasoline and the ethanol, making the gasoline an inferior product and the ethanol totally undrinkable unless you are a pretty good chemist. Think fractional distillation but I would not recommend you do that unless you know how to scrub out all the other additives in that abominable concoction that they call gasoline today.

Below click link to see specials at my local grocery store this week.

http://heb.inserts2online.com/customer_Frame.jsp?drpStoreID=72

[kevkrom]

This was bone in with the skin. Once you take account for the waste of the bone and skin you are looking at about $1.50 a pound of pure meat.

I don't call that "waste", I call that "stock". If you're going to de-bone (and/or de-skin) your meat yourself, take advantage of that and make some stock. Freezes well and can be used for all manner of good stuff.