[4yearlurker]

Since I'm a retired meat cutter I go up and down the meat case and buy reduced items,bring them home and cut them and wrap them for the freezer. Chicken leg quarters and the cheapest. I buy whole boneless pork loins on sale and cut the rib and loin ends off and tie them together for a nice pork roast in the oven. Then you have the center left for boneless chops. I bought a small grinder and make my own sausage and ground beef and stew meat from roasts on sale.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

From the time I was a kid, I cleaned fish with my Grandpa. He also worked as a Butcher at the IGA after he retired - just for something to do and to get first crack at ‘the good stuff.’ My Grandma taught me how to butcher a chicken.

As a young woman I hunted (deer) so I learned to play ‘Deer CSI’ and learned to butcher venison.

I HELP when it comes to beef, but I’m not as good as Beau, so I’m more on ‘Hamburger Grinding Detail’ and clean-up! He and a friend got two cows and a bull for free a few years back. They had gone wild and the guy was selling his dairy so if they got ‘em they could have ‘em. Score! We raise a steer every year or so, but we take him to ‘the spa’ for processing. ;)

And A Pork Loin on sale makes my heart go pitter-patter! :)