But the prices for meat are crazy just about everywhere, sadly.
Wall Street Journal published a chart over a year ago with types of meats and their increases over a five ( if I remember correctly ) year time frame. It was outrageous.
Pork prices had gone up the most and by a huge percentage. The days of my having steak three nights a week have long since passed.
But I do manage to pan fry the Trader Joes stew meat chunks with mushrooms, onions, garlic and whatever the heck else I can get for cheap.
The stew meat is about 5.00 or so for a package. Usually lasts two days although I can eat the whole thing without thinking twice.
I have a friend who shops at Whole Foods on a regular basis as this is his wife’s favorite food store. I’ve been there a number of times and that place is so out of control with prices its a joke.
Poor bastard is paying 6.00 and change for a dozen eggs. But they are the most healthy, most organic, super amazing, eco friendly eggs in the whole world! Yeah...right.
..and then theres the super friendly people who shop there. yikes.
Yes, meat prices have been trending consistently upward for the last few years, but TJ’s is still significantly higher than anywhere else (except probably the boutique-y branches of the mainline corps.
When you’re burning animal feed (corn) as a sop/subsidy to the farm lobby, meat gets expensive. You don’t have to be a genius free market economist to figure that one out. Another example of really bad legislation from the G. W. Bush era.