Cheap meat

Not sure if any one else does this. My local grocery runs 'managers specials' a few times a week. More or less in what I'm going after, its the meat from the display case from the day before. Usually sold at a pretty steep discount. Just this morning I picked up about 12# @ $1.49/#, all 93 and 95%. Occasionally they have steaks and such there, but its not often.

I can usually get 10# a week from there for $15+tax. All still fresh, just looses a bit of its color due to lack of being nitrogen packed. Anyone else do this at all? You could fill up a small freezer for $30 and eat on it for a good long time.

This is how I buy my meats 75% of the time. And if we do this, we DO get steaks & sefood at lower prices. I don't pay more than $2 per pound for various meats & poultry & no more tha $4 for seafood & "good"steaks.

All the time. But I buy sales too. Just bring it home, re-package and freeze it.

I also try to pay under $1 or $1.50 per pound---$2 on occ.

I have gotten great buys that way---from buffalo burgers to organic roasting chickens (50 cents a pound!).

Sam's Club is great about marking down meat. Just get there early. I've found Monday morning the best because they over stock the meat case for the weekend.

I do it whenever I can get it.
last week there was a guy ahead of me digging thru the reduced produce stand. Then he was ahead of me grabbing the reduced meat. So I zoomed ahead of him and beat him to the reduced bakery shelf.
That wasn't you was it Phlat?

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This is how I buy most of my meat now and stock my chest freezer with it.

I just canned about 35 or so pounds of chicken thighs that I got on a manager's clearance!! I buy the marked down stuff all the time. Usually they only have a few steaks, but occasionally there will be hot sausage or bacon, and very rarely some type of ham. They do have Hillshire sausage quite often, and I load up when they do because the grandkids love it. This is the first time that I've ever seen chicken marked down. Probably because they keep it at regular price until it isn't fit to eat any more! They had a ton of these thighs, but I didn't see the butcher to ask him why they were marked down. They must have gotten a big shipment in and didn't sell them fast enough.

About that mgr's special. I just did a stint at the Turley Warehouse Market as a cashier. The day before I quit (which contributed to the quitting) a woman came in and bought over $100 of ground beef at $.49 a pound ON FOODSTAMPS for her AKITA!!!!! She said it was cheaper than feeding him dogfood.

I'm an opportunivore, I get most foods when there is a sale opportunity.

They don't do markdowns much in California, they prefer to throw the meat away if it doesn't sell in time.

One of the stores I shop has a section where all the meat is 5 pkgs for $19.99. They put a variety of meat in there including chicken, ground beef, hot links, pork chops, bacon, thin sliced beef steak, country style ribs, and others. I usually skip over it b/c I raise my own meats, but tomorrow I'll be shopping for a neighbor so will pick up 10 varrious pkgs for $40 for him. If he's careful, it'll provide him meat for about $1 a day for 40 days. It's not real hard to get at least 3 good meals from each package, and if he doesn't gorge himself he can get 4 or 5 meals from one.