Cheap alternatives for high calories and protein...think about it!

[Amish Heart]

Sometimes you can't put a price on doing for yourself.
That's why I raise and butcher different fowl.

 

[hiwall]

This week's local grocery ad has 80% ground beef for 99 cents a pound. Best price I've seen in a long time. They have a limit though.

 

[Weedygarden]

This week's local grocery ad has 80% ground beef for 99 cents a pound. Best price I've seen in a long time. They have a limit though.

On ads like this, if I can, I go back as often as I can and get as much as I want. It is never going to get cheaper than that.

 

[Amish Heart]

That is a great price!

 

[Terri9630]

This week's local grocery ad has 80% ground beef for 99 cents a pound. Best price I've seen in a long time. They have a limit though.

I haven't seen prices like that since my oldest was a baby.

 

[hiwall]

I haven't seen prices like that since my oldest was a baby.

It's at Safeway.

 

[Meerkat]

Ground beef runs about $2.80 a pound., never mind the price of steaks! Pork chops are even higher. Now think about hunting seasons, and buying a box of shells for your rifle or shotgun. Now think BEAR and WILD HOG. (And, for that matter, also deer, rabbit, raccoon, groundhog, muskrat, etc., etc.)

Bear meat has over 700 calories per serving and a hefty 89+ grams of protein.
https://www.yazio.com/en/foods/bear-meat-cooked.html

Wild hog has over 540 calories and a whopping 96+ grams protein per serving.
https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/wild-boar-meat-(cooked-roasted)

So for the price of a single cartridge, you could have a bear..or a hog. Plus, of course, a little labor, gutting, skinning, cleaning, butchering. But much, much, cheaper than paying high store prices. You just have to get out there in hunting season and do the deed!! You can have a freezer (or two) filled with high calorie /high protein meat for very little cost.

Think about it! Hunting pays off big time.

Hubby grew up on wild meat and gardens. He knows how to do all the hunting,cleaning and cooking not me. I never knew what they were having for dinner so I always filled up before a visit. Not that anything is wrong of course I was just a city slicker compared to him.
But I hear starvation is a cure for city slicking,so he would come in handy in a shtf type of thing.
We lived city and country but mama was a city person till she bought the place.A self appointed animal rights gun toting liberal for the time. She could shoot the head off a snake form a few yards though if it threatened us,otherwise it was safe too.