When buying meat for your family, how do you save money? Where do you shop to get the best deals? What cuts/types are the cheapest yet still taste good? Share your advice here!
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I just buy ahead when there is a good deal on meat. Like when they have the managers special at my local Glen's. I got really good quality meat for $1.39 a pound. So I bought 20 pounds!
We eat a lot of things with Burger in it (not because we have to but because we like to) and that always keeps the price of meat down.
I also check the meat deals at my Save-a-Lot. I can get a pretty good price there sometimes even though I don't like the quality. I just take the ad to Walmart and get them to match it.
I also grab up any coupons for meat products that we use and try to stock up on those when they are on sale.
I have switched to buying frozen chicken breasts from the fresh (actually did this a long time ago). I was getting 20oz pkgs for $4.99 - 5.99 and freezing them and with the already frozen I can get 48 oz for the same price. They taste just as yummy ~ we haven't noticed a difference.
We don't buy much beef except for hamburger - which I will also cut down on in the near future. We just bought a whole pig from the neighbor and are having it butchered ~ so I will have lots of ground pork to use up
our local grocery store offers the "pick any 5 for $20" this past week i got huge pack ribs, 3lbs gmeat, delmonico steaks, 5 stuffed ck breast, and a roast for $20!
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Since dh doesn't like any form of noddles or beans, except baked and green beans. I have to cook meat at just about every meal.
So normally I look for sales, but I also by the cheaper cuts and marinate them and cook them in the crock pot.
For example I buy the minute steak, that is cheap but also tough. So I pounded it and add just a little meat tenderizer. Then I roll it in flour or bread crumbs, and brown pretty fast. Then I lined my crock pot with onions and put the meat on top of them. I then add a can of french onion soup. and cook on low.
Or you can take the same minute steak and brown and put in crock pot with a can of stewed tomatoes.
I use cheap stew meat and cook it in the crock pot with a little coffee and beef broth and onions and serve over rice.
I buy the cheaper cut of roasts and chops and do them the same way. I just trim the fat first.
Also to us it is cheaper to buy the angus burgers in the frozen section of the meat department. We get 6 for 5.99 (bubba brand).
I also watch kroger and a lot of time they will have their bag chicken at 25% off.
We are lucky because during fair time we get a 4-H cow and split with 3 other families at Kevin's work. When that does run out (around March/April) I buy meat only when it is on sale and stock up.
I only buy hamburger meat, pork chops, roasts, etc...when I can find them on sale. Our local grocery store usually puts out the reduced meats first, so I try to do my shopping in the morning to try and find any reduced meats. If chicken breasts are not on sale I have bought a whole chicken and cooked it, chopped up the meat and used for 2-3 meals. Sometimes when chicken thighs or drumsticks are on sale I will buy them and use in chicken and dumplings. I have also started reducing the amount of ground beef I am using in pastas, using a little less than a full pound, dh hasn't seemed to notice.
-I get my ground beef in a massive roll from Sams. Ive found its leaner and cheaper.
- I get the chicken from winn dixie because I can normally catch it BOGO.
- and I get my pork chops on markdown. If i cant find it marked down I but ground pork patties. and theyre awesome. Ive found that my family tends to really like them.
Also I keep an eye out at Food Lion for sales on meat, they always have mark downs and when they do I stock up big time.
I only buy hamburger meat, pork chops, roasts, etc...when I can find them on sale. Our local grocery store usually puts out the reduced meats first, so I try to do my shopping in the morning to try and find any reduced meats. If chicken breasts are not on sale I have bought a whole chicken and cooked it, chopped up the meat and used for 2-3 meals. Sometimes when chicken thighs or drumsticks are on sale I will buy them and use in chicken and dumplings. I have also started reducing the amount of ground beef I am using in pastas, using a little less than a full pound, dh hasn't seemed to notice.
I do the same with the ground beef I use .75lb know one knows lol.
Also in like meatloaf I add stuffing it makes more and adds a great flavor.
And i bought that after thanksgiving for like .15 cents a box.
Every six months I shop around for the cheapest hindquater of beef. We are close to some farms - so sometimes a farm butcher will give a better price than others.
Besides for that I wait until the fish is on special - and buy a large quantity and the same with the chicken.
We normally add stuff to the meat to make it go further - depending of course what we are making.
Meat: How do you save?
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