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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    No. Just no.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThePenIsMightier View Post
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    What - are you sabad's alt, now?
    I’m everyone’s alt.

    In all seriousness. If you want to buy a whole or half animal.

    Consider a pig, me and a buddy split one a while back. Very affordable ( I think my side was 150 bucks or so?).

    Manageable size and if you like cooking there are so many interesting things you can do with a pig.

    As for the grind? You can make sausages with it which is infinitely better than ground beef in my books.
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    At least you didn’t say ground hamburger

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    our house went 4 or 5 years without a beef steak due to all the wild game. We definitely appreciated the first steak a bit more than normal after so long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    If you are going to buy any fraction of a cow you need ensure you eat a ton of ground beef.

    Because that’s mostly what you get.

    I would argue most people would be happier buying whole Primals.
    It was actually mostly roasts and steaks, some stewing beef and maybe 15-20% ground beef.

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    Grocery store is consistently more expensive than all the butchers I've used Weird that a bunch of you have different experiences. Or maybe you're all buying meat when it goes on big sale at grocery store before they throw it away?

    But I tend to buy as much as I can from my butcher just for the sake of supporting local and having a better idea where the most important part of my diet comes from.

    Finally pulled the trigger and just bought a half cow direct from a local farm. $4.75/lb, can't beat that price wise anywhere. Looking forward to seeing how it tastes, I receive my order in a week or so.


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    If you are going to buy any fraction of a cow you need ensure you eat a ton of ground beef.

    Because that’s mostly what you get.

    I would argue most people would be happier buying whole Primals.
    Generally eating about 7lbs of ground beef a week currently with my grocery store purchases. Meat price is ridiculous, and mainly GB is just easy for me when I go to work for a week. Cannot wait to have steak in the freezer that needs to get eaten now that I'll have a half cow.

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    7 lbs of beef per week for an individual is pretty wild.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cagare View Post
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    It was actually mostly roasts and steaks, some stewing beef and maybe 15-20% ground beef.
    Asked a coworker since she buys a quarter or half twice a year (as I hear too frequently lol). Her sentiments align with yours
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    Do you guys also buy your apples from the market not the grocery store? Seems like it'd have the same benefits and drawbacks.
    If you need toothpaste do you go to the pharmacy?

    Do you go to the independent bakery?

    Mods please move this to the "support independent business" sub-forum. Thx.

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    That’s why I buy my gas from Petro Canada. It’s a local independent business.

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    LoL that grocery meat on sale is about to be thrown out!

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    I am willing to believe one of two things.
    1) that local butchers usually have better meat quality
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    2) Local butchers are similar or lower prices than grocery stores

    I'm not willing to believe both.

    As for me, I do a reasonable amount of my shopping after 7PM or before 8AM, so I find the 7-10 hours of my local safeway to be convenient for my normal shopping. I do live close to Master Meats, and when I've been there, I have been satisfied.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    If you are going to buy any fraction of a cow you need ensure you eat a ton of ground beef.

    Because that’s mostly what you get.

    I would argue most people would be happier buying whole Primals.
    I've been really fascinated with the idea of getting my own primals and doing my own cutting and butchering, but I have no idea where I can find a primal. I don't have a Costco membership so that's sort of out of the question.
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    your local butcher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThePenIsMightier View Post
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    LoL that grocery meat on sale is about to be thrown out!
    Is there other reasons they hack the price in half every now and then? If you're going to throw it in the freezer it's all fine, I was more drawing attention to the fact that that's not regular pricing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Misterman View Post
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    Is there other reasons they hack the price in half every now and then? If you're going to throw it in the freezer it's all fine, I was more drawing attention to the fact that that's not regular pricing.
    It's as fresh as any other regular priced similar meat on display. The AA striploin on sale yesterday at Safeway had a best before date of October 9 which is the same BB as their Sterling Silver AAA striploin that was 2.4x more money.
    It's a marketing strategy based on volume purchases and loss leaders, not a method to dump meat before it expires.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    I am willing to believe one of two things.
    1) that local butchers usually have better meat quality
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    2) Local butchers are similar or lower prices than grocery stores

    I'm not willing to believe both.

    As for me, I do a reasonable amount of my shopping after 7PM or before 8AM, so I find the 7-10 hours of my local safeway to be convenient for my normal shopping. I do live close to Master Meats, and when I've been there, I have been satisfied.
    It can be both if you are willing to buy in bulk like I suggested earlier when buying whole slabs. Aside from that you are basically almost always paying full price, with the occasional sale. The difference is in the quality of the meat and it being readily packaged exactly how you want it to be.

    If you are a value shopper, and don't buy in massive bulk, then you are far cheaper to wait for sale at the grocery store and then break it down/package it the way you like it to be at home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    7 lbs of beef per week for an individual is pretty wild.
    If it's all you eat, and you are focused on a high protein diet, then that makes sense. If you are targeting 1g of protein/1 lb of body mass then a 200lb male would be eating approximately 9 lbs of lean meat a week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cagare View Post
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    If it's all you eat, and you are focused on a high protein diet, then that makes sense. If you are targeting 1g of protein/1 lb of body mass then a 200lb male would be eating approximately 9 lbs of lean meat a week.
    Get some eggs and yogurt in there you maniac! Its a recession!

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