Good cuts of beef and pork have been really cheap this year.
We’ve cooked more steaks on the gill this year than any time over the last 12 years we have lived here. The wife just picked up some gorgeous NY Strips for $4.79 a pound. Last month we bought 2 whole 22 pound top rounds for $1.63 a pound, broke them down, vacume bagged it and filled the freezer. Ealier this year we picked up a pack of 6 flank steaks for $1.49 a pound.
I have a 9 pound Boston Butt on the smoker that’s ready to pull right now, that I picked up for $1.19 a pound.
These prices won’t be around for a lot longer, and if you have a good set of knives and a freezer, now’s a great time to stock up for winter.
Oh yeah...I took about 15 pound of that top round and made 3 batches of jerky too...
“We’ve cooked more steaks on the gill”
Is that a new version of surf’n’turf?
;^)
We’ve been doing something similar for a couple of years now, only we buy the rib-roasts from CostCo. I get a steak for dinner every Friday and sometimes Saturday. ;>)
I don’t know what it costs to do it this way, but my Bride says that we are saving lots of money. This gives us 15 steaks and as we each eat only half of a steak, we get 30 meals out of one purchase of around $70. We still buy other cuts from time to time.
We also take one deer a year from my property, my son takes one and my daughter take another... if I didn’t mind breaking the law, I could harvest as many as 3 per year without hurting the head count around here. It helps to have 18 apple trees.. LOL
We are now raising our own chickens (26 birds) for eggs and will be raising meat birds in the spring.
I may get 2 head of beef to raise, we did that in years past. I might also buy a couple of meat goats.
I fish for Chinook, King salmon, Halibut, Lingcod, Sea Bass and other bottom fish. Family members keep us supplied with Dungeness crab and various types of clams....steamers and razors.
If the government thinks it’s going to change my meat eating habits, they are going to have to kill me.