Kudos to your frugality!
You have the most concern with uncooked meats, in my understanding.
Haven’t quite gone to bed yet! This is interesting to me, as I have read old cookbooks that indicate that meat should/could be hanged for days or weeks before use! That some meat was considered a delicacy when it had actually rotted a little?!!!! Did people just have stronger intestines then, or maybe they just lived shorter lives!....