Food Investment

G picked up our beef today and we had just enough room the in freezer (thank goodness)!

Long story short: a friend of ours is on a curling team with a local beef farmer and he was processing a cow but didn’t need the entire beef. So our friend said they would take a quarter and asked us if we wanted the other quarter. I am no stranger to the difference in quality that properly raised beef has - so when we had this opportunity come up G and I agreed right away. 

It was a slight investment…. but we also received A TON of beef. Like I said: our freezer is packed! The cost: $850.00 but that includes all the processing, wrapping and packaging. 

Here is a rough inventory of everything we received:

- 62 pounds ground beef (all individual wrapped in 1 pound packages)

- 8 packages of soup bones

- 6 sirloin steaks

- 2 fillets 

- 4 porter house

- 2 wing steaks 

- 4 T-bones

- 4 ribeyes

- 4 packages of boneless chuck

- 1 12inch brisket 

- 5 rump roasts

- 2 sirloin tips

- 1 eye of round

- 1 package back ribs 

- 2 packages short ribs 

Processing the entire beef averaged around $4/lbs. Looking at flyers: the sale price at the Superstore for ground beef is $4.49/lbs - but since we don’t live anywhere close to a Superstore - we would need to make a special trip to the city. Our local Co-op, which is the only grocery store in our small town, doesn’t have ground beef in the flyer this week but does have eye of round for $4.99/lbs (limit of 1). 

Regardless if it’s a good deal or not, I am happy with everything we got! While we were playing freezer Tetris this evening, G and I deemed February should be ‘Freezer February’, since we still have a bit of room to make. 

Looking forward to the meals we cook up!

- M