Can I buy the stapes to make buttermilk biscuits cheaper.
When I went on Atkins, I was shocked at how my food bill doubled because I couldn't buy the processed crap I usually bought.
Meat is not cheap where I live. Not even hamburger.
Add into that the energy costs of cooking everything and your bill has actually tripled. At our local grocer you can buy 10 loaves of white bread for 7.90. to buy the ingredients to make this would cost more than twice that plus running the oven to bake it. I am not advocating eating junk just because it is cheaper but if you have $5 and a child (or more) to feed you are going to buy whatever will fill their bellies. For the truly poor, quantity is often the biggest deciding factor and nutrition is secondary.
The second burritos worth of pork peppers and onions is awaiting me putting cheese on a tortilla and heating it all up tonight.
I get Chicken breasts (with ribs and skin) cook them in their own fat from the skin, and I can usually get four for less than $8 and make four meals out of them. That is $2 worth of meat per meal and it is fresh chicken breast. If I wanted to go thigh meat it would be DIRT cheap.
Meat is not cheap where I live. Not even hamburger.”
Cattle are on pasture until late summer or early fall. Then they are sent to the feed lots to fatten up on corn.
We are using almost 30% of the national corn crop for Ethanol.
THAT is what is driving up the price of meat.....