Notice that even the grocery meat specials are featuring the 80/20 % meats.
No meat is cheap or reasonable unless you are willing to pay a premium price.
They must think that all of us are grilling outdoors.
“They must think that all of us are grilling outdoors.”
No, they know we WILL BE grilling outdoors (/s)
Aldi has 73/27 ground beef for $1.79 lb this week. I usually buy 80/20. I suppose for meatloaf, chili, goulash it’ll be okay.
That’s why I built a smoker, that and I like the flavor. Low and Slow tenderizes. Plus I can cook a bunch at once and it doesn’t heat up the house or cost anything in electric/gas. I don’t even use bulk charcoal to start the wood going like a lot of people do. Bunch of sticks in a charcoal chimney and work up to smoking sized.
I noticed a new cut of pork is in all the stores here. Bone in pork sirloin roast. $1.39 but has a big hunk of bone so call it $2.39. Did one on the smoker and it was real good. Did one in the oven, hotter/faster, not so good. Spatchcocked chicken is good on the smoker but the skin comes out rubbery and I can’t be bothered to fire up the wood fired grill to crisp the skin up. Not very good for you anyway so we just don’t eat it. One of these days I might try crisping it with the propane torch.
Eye of Round on the smoker and then run through the slicer makes for cheap deli roast beef. $4.49/lb as opposed to $10-12/lb.
We used to have ribeye night every week before we had kids. It was $4.99 on sale 18 years ago. Now it’s $18.99 here in MO.
$5/lb is our limit on any kind of meat except salmon. I’ll go $7/lb on that.
I don’t buy anything that’s not on sale. The receipt will show anywhere from 20-40% saved. My wife’s the opposite. She spent $100 at Dollar General this week and within a few days, we had nothing to show for it. Bunch of small shiny packages. Oh look, something shiny, and it’s sooo cute. Pisses me off. I’ve been known to take her card away and hand her a little cash here and there for gasoline. It’s about time to do it again.
There’s a major split in meat prices here. I guess they’re trying to keep the cheap cuts cheap and are raising prices of the good cuts like those $19/lb ribeyes. Kind of socialist in a way. Tax the rich.