Got beef?

[Terri9630]

Ummm. I haven't bought beef in quite a while but WOW! Is anyone else seeing these prices?

 

[Peanut]

Maybe I should have gotten 2 calves instead of just one.

 

[Bacpacker]

Prices are up, but haven't seen anything near those

 

[Terri9630]

That's the Sam's Club website. I had YouTube on auto play and couldn't believe the price the lady was talking about and went and looked for myself.

 

[Weedygarden]

If only farmers and ranchers could get their fair share of that money!

 

[Homesteader33]

If only farmers and ranchers could get their fair share of that money!

yeah not happening but I wish it was!

 

[Spikedriver]

I can go and buy better ribeyes than those at my local grocery's meat counter for $9.99/lb right now. I don't know what kind of joke that ad is supposed to be...

 

[Terri9630]

I can go and buy better ribeyes than those at my local grocery's meat counter for $9.99/lb right now. I don't know what kind of joke that ad is supposed to be...

That's not an add. That's from their website. I looked at Costcos site and they had similar prices.

 

[Amish Heart]

I just put in a 5 and 1/2 lb prime rib. It was $70.00. Disgusting. With seven of us, there won't be any leftovers. I usually plan a pound a person.

 

[backlash]

I saw a chuck roast at Costco for $52. $12.99 a pound for chuck. Hamburger was 4.99 a pound.

 

[Supervisor42]

Prices are up, but haven't seen anything near those

Prices skyrocketed down here for a while and when none of it sold, they had to grind it all into hamburger-meat and sanity returned.
Imagine that!
People would just say: "Do you know how many pounds of jumbo shrimp you can buy wit dat?"
Where's the beef?
This week's special:

 

[bamadeb48]

I cannot afford beef anymore. Tired of chicken, don’t like pork ,

 

[hiwall]

I had twelve head of elk in my yard a couple days ago. Two a year would cover our meat needs for a year.

 

[LadyLocust]

We just got our beef in the freezer <$4/lb across the board - all cuts.

 

[JustMe]

Prices for meat here are very similar. It's outrageous, I don't know about Sam's or Costco, I'm not a member of either one, but regular stores are charging about that much & sometimes more. Burger 80/20 or better, starts around $5lb. I do alot of the meat shopping in the markdown section that is either 30% or 50% off the regular price. Sometimes even then it's still more than I'm willing to pay.

 

[goshengirl]

Wow, that just doesn't seem real. I know prices haven gone up, but sheesh! Just yesterday I was feeling blessed by the full freezer of meat, and realized that I hadn't even looked at the meat aisle in a bit.

I do alot of the meat shopping in the markdown section that is either 30% or 50% off the regular price. Sometimes even then it's still more than I'm willing to pay.

That's how I've done it, too. I used to keep a document on my phone listing which cuts were due to expire at which stores, so I could target shop the discounts. Doesn't work so well since 'Rona came along, but sometimes I still try it with meats like bison.

I'm really thankful we buy direct from the farmer. Which reminds me, I need to schedule our order for this coming year...

 

[Cascadian]

We just got our beef in the freezer <$4/lb across the board - all cuts.

Same here, we purchased a half from next door. I have no idea what our pigs cost. I lost track of the feed purchases.

 

[INresponse]

Wednesday at Albertson's, a big chain grocery store in this area, had a special on bone in ribeye roast for $5 a pound if you used the one per customer offer in their savings app. CSe grabbed the biggest one and got a $240 roast for less than $60 but at the register the guy couldn't make the app price thing work so he gave her the price anyways. So when she walked out with the bargain roast she loaded up the groceries and drove across town to the other Albertsons and grabbed the biggest one they had and used the app at the register to get the $5 per pound price again. The second store got the app thing to scan but because the first store couldn't make it work she scored big time, twice. When she got home she cut off the ribs and set them in the freezer so we can BBQ some beef ribs in a week or two, then she cut the ribeyes into 1" thick steaks. Several were dinner Wednesday night and the rest are in the freezer.

We have been asking questions of the small butcher department in the small town grocery store north of us about bulk pricing on meat. Last month they had a special on ground beef that was a great price. We bought 20 pounds, had to wait 30 minutes for them to grind it up for us, and the bulk price was another 30 cents a pound cheaper than the sale price. They get their beef from one of the local ranches and it is delicious but their normal prices are a bit higher that the big stores in the city. In a month or two we are going to make a big purchase from them and fill our third freezer. Paying regular prices lately is out of the question. GF is getting good at hitting all the grocery stores and Costco for meat price specials on her once a week grocery visits.

 

[Tirediron]

I used to get riled at the store prices, now I don't even look, on the hoof price has gone way down, I talked to a local store meat manager, he said they are just getting enough to not take a loss, so maybe tyson foods is the profiteer. As LL said $ 4.00 a # is about right, cause processing beef is not nice work, so when you consider 50% butcher loss, they aren't charging that much. This kind of stuff will force people to plan a bit more and source locally

 

[INresponse]

I will be looking into having a calf raised for us this year, and if I am lucky enough to get caught up, situated, and organized around her by the end of summer I will consider quartering it and cutting it up myself in the garage. Just make an all day event out of it. Between my GF and I we do really good at cutting out our favorite cuts from large chunks of meat and all the rest will become ground beef or stew meat.

 

[Spikedriver]

Was at the local Hy-Vee grocery store last night. 80% ground beef was $3.99 if you bought a 10lb prepackaged tube of it. Most of the steaks were running $5.99 to 9.99/lb. Prime rib was $13.99 lb and they had roasts for $5.99/lb. It's high, but not as bad as what some of you are seeing. I bought a package of thin cut round steaks to make steak and cheese sandwiches, it was $6.10 for 1.06 lbs.

 

[Morgan101]

That gives new meaning to the term "sticker shock". Last week we went to one of our favorite restaurants. It had been closed for quite a while due to Covid. The prices had nearly doubled. I was shocked and very disappointed. I just couldn't bring myself to pay what I thought were exorbitant prices.

 

[INresponse]

Oops, posted that in the wrong thread.
Sooo, like the old Wendy's commercials...
Where's the beef?

 

[Terri9630]

I had twelve head of elk in my yard a couple days ago. Two a year would cover our meat needs for a year.

I had a herd of elk eat the hay I took down for the steers this morning.

 

[JustMe]

I had a herd of elk eat the hay I took down for the steers this morning.

Ya know........elk are pretty good tasting and comparable to beef.....Just sayin

 

[goshengirl]

Elk is my favorite. Unfortunately, they don't hang out in my neck of the woods.

 

[SheepDog]

If an animal eats my food then it becomes my food.

 

[Tirediron]

Elk taste good, but they are a stored feed nightmare, what they eat is fine, but they like to pee on what they don't, not the best neighbors

 

[joel]

Got to pick up the deer next week.

 

[Tootsie]

I didn’t think high meat prices were for real, all over. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a grocery store, and wow! It’s for real! Looked like anything beyond chicken and hamburg starts at 24,99/. If you can get anything reasonable, you’re lucky.
I’m in no position for hunting, but might consider letting hunters use the land in exchange for a share on the meat. Venison is very good. Season is done now, but next year will be different.