$1 dollar steak from Dollar Tree. Have you had it, would you eat it?

[BrianL]

Sweet! Thanks for the tip. I'll have to scope it out, maybe on the way home from work tomorrow.

Just a warning, the day before the 4th, it will by BUSY in there! They can run out of stuff too, so just keep that in mind.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Where do you guys all live?! None of my stores in MA/RI have these type of prices!

Market Basket, pretty regular sales.

 

[kaytieeldr]

I once ate a large cockroach on a dare. I will drink a cup of coffee that I left on my desk overnight without reheating it. I've eaten camel, alligator, racoon, and enjoy scapple. I would never, ever, eat a steak from Dollar Store. I wouldn't even feed it to my neighbor's dog (which I dont like).

note toself: politely decline dinner from @dominiondad

 

[Kitty 34]

On a dare....I would probably eat the dollar bill instead and yes I know I would wash the bill real good first.

 

[Meriweather]

I never buy food from the dollar stores.......except candy, but I am not opposed to trying something for only a dollar.
DH will eat anything. I use him for a guinea pig.

 

[karen4546]

i have tried it. It is disgusting. I bought a couple to make steak and eggs for breakfast the next day. TERRIBLE. Walmart had a box of ribeyes or new york strips $10 each for 5 steaks. I bought the ribeyes for the same reason - breakfast. The taste was better but not by much. They were bigger than the dollar tree steaks. I have not bought either one since. I do not recommend them.

 

[bcla]

I never buy food from the dollar stores.......except candy, but I am not opposed to trying something for only a dollar.
DH will eat anything. I use him for a guinea pig.

A lot of dollar store foods are pretty standard major brands. Kellogg's sells a lot to Dollar Tree, including Cheez-Its. The one my kid likes is the Minute Maid soft frozen lemonade that I've also bought at Disneyland for $6. And the one that's a great find is Westminster oyster crackers from Vermont.

Now I hesitate when I see off brands.

 

[tcufrog]

There's such a thing as too cheap.

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Its probably processed dead cat

 

[goofy4tink]

This has been a running joke in our family for awhile now!! We have a Dollar Store close to a restaurant we go to with another couple. After making fun of these 'steaks', we each bought one. Well, to be truthful, our husband's bought them. Ours went right into the freezer, hopefully to be forgotten. Our friend actually cooked and ate his!!! He said it didn't kill him, but he wouldn't be buying any more!!! I tossed ours out. No way am I eating meat processed in Mexico!!! Ewwww.

 

[Floridaman999]

I was gonna make a wall joke, but yeah, you know...

 

[ronandannette]

Youtube has a number of videos on this exact item

Thanks for that! What an adorable young lady - her brilliant smile made my day and the information was about what I would have expected.

This has been a running joke in our family for awhile now!! We have a Dollar Store close to a restaurant we go to with another couple. After making fun of these 'steaks', we each bought one. Well, to be truthful, our husband's bought them. Ours went right into the freezer, hopefully to be forgotten. Our friend actually cooked and ate his!!! He said it didn't kill him, but he wouldn't be buying any more!!! I tossed ours out. No way am I eating meat processed in Mexico!!! Ewwww.

I feel the same way. I watch food labels very closely because the idea of eating food processed in second and third world countries just sleeves me out. It’s getting tougher because it seems Canada and the US are increasingly exporting quality raw meat and produce and it returns to our shelves “processed” from places like India, China and the Philippines.

This is especially true for store-brand and generic foodstuff. Our (Canadian) food labeling laws are also problematic. There is a designation “made from Canadian ingredients” that loop-holes country of origin regulations. It doesn’t seem to be a political issue on anybody’s radar, but I surely wish it would get more attention. I guess most people are price-driven and don’t give these matters much thought.

 

[RedAngie]

I've seen them before. There might be multiple suppliers depending on local distribution. I remember the ones I saw claimed to be ribeye, but when I saw them in the freezer they were extremely thin. Maybe 4 oz, and the packaging said that there was various stuff added including water.

There are a lot of things I'll get at a dollar store. I've seen great bargains on eggs and dry packaged foods. But meat there is just odd. I tried some burgers once and they were funky. I really wanted to break them up for ground beef, but they were kind of made with some sort of binding agent.

But it's NEW and IMPROVED!!!!!

 

[mrodgers]

The net weight of that is 3.5 oz of beef. So would I pay $1 for beef so bad it had to be pounded and put in a solution to be tenderized or would I pay $1.75 for 3.5 ounces of choice grade ribeye on sale at Publix? Obviously I'm not going to get 3.5 oz at Publix. But I can always cut the bigger steaks they sell into portions about the same size if I wish.
I think I'll stick with Publix.

$4.57/lb of a piece of meat I don't actually trust to be Ribeye that I couldn't cook vs. $19.95/lb of Ribeye around me. No brainer, I don't eat Ribeye very much, LOL.

 

[aprilgail]

I would never ever buy anything that you would consume in the Dollar Tree.

 

[bcla]

I would never ever buy anything that you would consume in the Dollar Tree.

They have some pretty common brands. Nissin Cup Noodles. All sorts of stuff from Kellogg's. Frito-Lay. Much of what they have is identical to what one might find in a major supermarket except that the quantities might be tailored for the dollar price.

 

[hereyago]

Probably not because I won't even buy any kind of meat at Walmart. I am more of a Kroger girl..
I have bought canned goods, Wonder bread and buns, candy , drinks from Dollar Tree and the like.

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[luvsJack]

Tri-Tip, how we miss it!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can't find it here in the south. When we ask the butchers at Kroger they look at us weird and asked what it was. The one at Sprouts says that they get a piece or two in occasionally but use it to make ground beef. No one but west coasters (that's be us) eats it apparently. On occasion I can find pre-seasoned way too expensive tri-tip in a package at Costco or Sams. I cave once every few months and buy it. It's as close as I'm getting.

Here Costco sells rib-eye ranging in price from $10-15 per pound. When we buy it we buy it as a solid piece and cut it once at home.

Tri-tip is the same thing as Bottom Sirloin. Not sure where in the south you are but here its labeled Bottom Sirloin.

 

[tvguy]

A lot of dollar store foods are pretty standard major brands. Kellogg's sells a lot to Dollar Tree, including Cheez-Its. The one my kid likes is the Minute Maid soft frozen lemonade that I've also bought at Disneyland for $6. And the one that's a great find is Westminster oyster crackers from Vermont.

Now I hesitate when I see off brands.

Yup. A lot of their inventory is over production from major manufacturers. A lot of the brands you may not recognize may be product that was mis-shipped and it was cheaper for the shipper to pay the manufacturer for the product that ship it back where it was supposed to go. I ran into that when they had Schnucks store brand shampoo. Schnucks is a midwest grocery store chain, primarily Illinois, Missouri and Indiana. A whole rail car got sent to California.

 

[bcla]

Yup. A lot of their inventory is over production from major manufacturers. A lot of the brands you may not recognize may be product that was mis-shipped and it was cheaper for the shipper to pay the manufacturer for the product that ship it back where it was supposed to go. I ran into that when they had Schnucks store brand shampoo. Schnucks is a midwest grocery store chain, primarily Illinois, Missouri and Indiana. A whole rail car got sent to California.

That might account for some of their random inventory, but a lot of what they sell seems to be specially sized just for dollar stores. For instance, I see Cup Noodles in a 3-pack, which I've never seen anywhere but in a dollar store. Dollar Tree or the other dollar stores really need stuff that kind of fits into their pricing model.

The place that does seem to end up with some random overstocks or misshipments is Grocery Outlet. I've gotten some really good bargains on my kid's favorite - Pepperidge Farms Goldfish, with all these random single-serving packages that I've never seen in grocery stores or warehouse stores. I've even seen Edy's ice cream or Hellman's mayo.