Pork loin, still $2.29/lb
Pork butt (deboned) $2.49/lb with $8.00 per pack of 2 at the register. Not bad. Makes 'em a lot closer to the cost of bone-in pork butt at WalMart ($1.78/lb here) without the need to debone to smoke in smaller chunks or grind for sausage.
Pork ribs, 3 packs, up to $3.49lb for either baby back or St. Louis - usually BBs are $0.10-0.20/lb cheaper.
Whole pork belly $3.99, no skin same as it has been for a while. Interestingly, the sliced pork belly packages were also $3.99/lb, and I would have picked up one of these, as they are often a better meat/fat ratio, but these were sliced thin-ish, about 1/2" slices, so not so good for PPBE or 'bacon ribs' as I was hoping.
Beef...
Brisket. Interesting this time - about 10 briskets in the case (Prime), 2 of them were $4.99/lb, all the others were $5.89/lb! Ouch! I haven't bought a brisket in a while, as my wife isn't overly excited by it. But I've been wanting to do one. So I picked up one of the 2 $4.99 versions, about a 16lb'er. The other one was nearly 24 pounds. Wow. I assumed the $5.89/lb ones were newer, had maybe come in a few days later and prices had changed in the interim. But no... strangely, they were all marked with a "pack date" of 2/8/25 - today. Obviously, this wasn't applied in the packing plant. Had to have been marked when they got pulled out of the boxes in the back before being put out in the display case. So then why nearly $1/lb difference? I don't know, maybe our local meat industry expert can shed some light. I'm glad I got one of the two cheaper ones available, I nearly sharted myself when I saw 2 next to each other that were $20 difference in price and within about ½ pound of each other in weight. Wow. really drives home the difference in price.
I picked up 2 2-packs of boneless pork butts - picked the smallest ones available, so the $8.00 per pack discount made the biggest difference in cost per pound. About 31lbs total (mostly for sausage). 16+lb brisket. And 2 pork bellies - no big ones this day, one just under and one just over 9lbs. Those get turned into bacon, probable tomorrow when unpack the ones I packaged up last weekend. So, the two best bellies today were 18lbs, the 2 last weekend were 23+ total. <sigh>
How high is brisket going to go? Won't be doing much beef sausage this spring, it doesn't look like.
Pork butt (deboned) $2.49/lb with $8.00 per pack of 2 at the register. Not bad. Makes 'em a lot closer to the cost of bone-in pork butt at WalMart ($1.78/lb here) without the need to debone to smoke in smaller chunks or grind for sausage.
Pork ribs, 3 packs, up to $3.49lb for either baby back or St. Louis - usually BBs are $0.10-0.20/lb cheaper.
Whole pork belly $3.99, no skin same as it has been for a while. Interestingly, the sliced pork belly packages were also $3.99/lb, and I would have picked up one of these, as they are often a better meat/fat ratio, but these were sliced thin-ish, about 1/2" slices, so not so good for PPBE or 'bacon ribs' as I was hoping.
Beef...
Brisket. Interesting this time - about 10 briskets in the case (Prime), 2 of them were $4.99/lb, all the others were $5.89/lb! Ouch! I haven't bought a brisket in a while, as my wife isn't overly excited by it. But I've been wanting to do one. So I picked up one of the 2 $4.99 versions, about a 16lb'er. The other one was nearly 24 pounds. Wow. I assumed the $5.89/lb ones were newer, had maybe come in a few days later and prices had changed in the interim. But no... strangely, they were all marked with a "pack date" of 2/8/25 - today. Obviously, this wasn't applied in the packing plant. Had to have been marked when they got pulled out of the boxes in the back before being put out in the display case. So then why nearly $1/lb difference? I don't know, maybe our local meat industry expert can shed some light. I'm glad I got one of the two cheaper ones available, I nearly sharted myself when I saw 2 next to each other that were $20 difference in price and within about ½ pound of each other in weight. Wow. really drives home the difference in price.
I picked up 2 2-packs of boneless pork butts - picked the smallest ones available, so the $8.00 per pack discount made the biggest difference in cost per pound. About 31lbs total (mostly for sausage). 16+lb brisket. And 2 pork bellies - no big ones this day, one just under and one just over 9lbs. Those get turned into bacon, probable tomorrow when unpack the ones I packaged up last weekend. So, the two best bellies today were 18lbs, the 2 last weekend were 23+ total. <sigh>
How high is brisket going to go? Won't be doing much beef sausage this spring, it doesn't look like.
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