LOL, I have a corned beef in the back of my freezer as well -bought, just as you said, when they were on sale after St.Pat’s Day.
My local grocery store usually has a “meat of the week” on sale, and often another coupon for more savings on that same item - or two for one packages of chicken, so I buy what’s on sale and definitely stock up on the chicken, especially since it’s organic, free range - great to cook with b/c it’s not loaded with water the way the regular chickens are - those dilute whatever I’m cooking, especially in the crock pot.
My mother’s favorite was pot roast so I cook it in her honor - but my family loves loves loves it. It’s in my crock pot now with a mushroom gravy that we like.
I’m starting to enjoy cooking at home now more than ever and the savings has been the best part.
Usually one or another grocery store has some meat on sale nearly every week. When the price becomes good enough, like you do, I stock up.
The only thing I’m willing to pay a premium price for is prime cuts of steak from either Costco or Sam’s, and that’s so that we can enjoy a lovely steak dinner that we prepare instead of going to a steakhouse and pay three or four times the price. I have no need for doing that when my husband can grill a ribeye or NY strip as well as any executive chef, and I make all the sides. I rarely see the point in eating out, unless I really don’t feel like cooking one night, and then we might order pizza or Chinese takeout, which I’ve never mastered (egg rolls especially). I do wish I had a really great pizza dough from scratch recipe.