Yeah, it’s ridiculous. I mentioned this recently, but the other day I had to pay $4.50 a lb for damn chicken wings! That’s BS…… more than a prime brisket at Costco. Also $5.-$6. for a dozen eggs! I just fume every time I go shopping. 🤬
This past year has been one of the worst for avian/bird flu, that's what has impacted chicken/turkey/eggs apparently (although I never discount convenient price gouging in such situations.)
Allon Do you ever check the “Reduced For Quick Sale” section of the meat counters? Usually it’s pretty good stuff that’s gonna expire that day, which you can always freeze for later if ya want.
Here meat prices are dropping again, especially if you watch the sales. Just picked up choice top sirloin for $2.99/lb. Baby backs go on sale here now for $2.99/lb pretty regularly.
It's crazy. My briskets are few and far between these days. I try to watch for specials and learn how to produce good food from lesser cuts. I hope the neighbors don't come looking for their cat
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Allon go to the new Market Basket in Shrewsbury on Rt. 20. Location is the old Edgemere Drive-in. I think it opened last week. My wife goes to meet her friends from Upton at the IHOP in Northboro . She went there and picked up some meat. A couple of petite sirloins, a couple of strip steaks and 2 tri-tip steaks. Sirloins are 1# each and the strips are about 1# for 2 and as are the tri-tips. The total for all the meat was $34. Eggs were under $3. Selection, quality and price are all great. Check it out. It should be a stones throw from where you are.
And I'm (we are going next week) I'll be loading up on all the fixin's for Texas Red Chili, thank you Troutman.It is Super Bowl weekend, right? I'm sure plus some can be a lock too.
I buy more chicken and pork then beef for just that reason.
Buy whole loins at 1.78 a lb and cut them into 4.99 a pound chops! Bulk chicken breasts at Sams under 2.50 a lb. I re-bag and and re-freeze. Its out there if a fella doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty and owns a freezer. I did buy a strip loin Monday night for 3.99 a lb and now I have 17 nice NY strips.
Since no one has said it, and you should be able to always count on me for something... it takes a long time to smoke a carrot because they are so hard to light... Bada Boom..
We do try to stock up on sale items. Unfortunately, most sale items aren't really sale items anymore and actual sale items are farther and farther apart.
Thanks. I really appreciate the sentiment but it hasn't come to that...
Lighting a carrot?
Lighting it just takes away from the fun of slicing it into itty bitty, tinny weenie pieces and throwing into blazing hot oil...
Ha Ha Ha
We've been trying to buy on sales.
I think RichieB is right. Market Basket...
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Just got into charcoal Dec ‘21 (PBC)
fav is brisky. Love Turkey on PBC. also Turkey in the glass,(any nice bourbon)
Bud has always been my barley pop.
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Definitely eating fewer steaks the past few months. One of our local grocery stores sometimes has NY strips on sale for $6.99 a pound so I usually buy a few and stash them in the freezer. Pork loin is still under $2 per pound.
And no idea how Costco is still selling rotisserie chickens for $5. 2 whole chicken in the cooler were $15 last time I was there so cheaper to just buy the precooked one. And those are usually better than most roast chickens I have made. I think we bought 4 last time we were there. 2 for dinner and picked the meat off the other two for chicken soup and pot pies. I think you can get close to 2 lbs of meat per chicken IIRC.
I think Costco and Sam's Club are selling those rotisserie chickens as a "loss leader" type item, as it brings you to the back of the store, and you likely will be buying other stuff. No one else has a $5 rotisserie chicken anymore...
In the two local (burbs of D.C.) markets we shop at most, a Harris Teeter and a Wegmans, meat prices have pretty much returned to their pre-spike levels. I've been tracking every month or two on chuck roasts, spare ribs, baby backs, and pork butts for almost a year, and everything is nearly the same (some even less) than they were in April of last year after the peak in the (northern hemisphere) late summer to fall timeframe. National data show a similar picture, and although it's still elevated, the inflation rate does appear to be dropping now for more than a few months in a row. That's an aggregate, average thing of course, and some things are still higher and some areas affected more than others etc.
Was at Costco earlier today.
while I didn’t purchase any meat, I was checking some prices, and it looks like some of the things I often purchase (flank steak, flap steak, chuck roast, etc) have at least held steady in price from where they have been for say 6 months or so.
I will only buy what’s on sale and bought an extra freezer to store things longer term. Recent bargains include:
chicken wing $1.99/lb not paying more than that as way back when they were thrown away.
pork ribs $1.99/lb
pork chops $2.49/lb
brisket $4.99/lb
if it’s not on sale we won’t eat it same with the eggs. Chicken tenderloins Costco has consistently for $3.49 so I buy those as the kids like them as breast sometimes has the rubber band consistency which is disgusting (happened with Bell & Evans once)
I don't really look at price per pound or kilo, if I can live with the price....ka-boom....
Chicken and pork have gotten far cheaper in the past few weeks.
Beef, with the exception of ground beef from time to time, is out of reach in this household.
On a positive note I now get my Iron from chocolate milk.....
We stocked up on chicken and ground beef a few weeks ago and are coasting right now.
Last edited by smokin fool; February 3, 2023, 09:00 AM.
I usually don't look at price\pound unless when I was cooking commercially. I look at the quality, quantity and total price of the package and go from there...
Linda is the complete bargain shopper. She's afraid of Market Basket because of the crowds.
Before Shrewsbury, we had to go about 10 miles south to Oxford and it's less than half the size and always packed with customers.
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