Meat Freezer Plans?

[mrzrich]

Local meat market has various freezer plans, but I have a really hard time figuring out if they are a deal or not. Is there a formula to figure it out?

Here's an example

$72.99 FREEZER PLAN "B"

3 LBS. SIRLOIN PORK CHOPS
3 LBS. GROUND CHUCK
1 ROAST CHICKEN
4 LBS. ROAST BEEF
2 LBS. STEW BEEF
2 LBS. BURGERS
2 LBS. ALL BEEF FRANKS
2 LBS. HOT OR MILD SAUSAGE
2 LBS. CHICKEN LEG QUARTERS

 

[robinb]

Local meat market has various freezer plans, but I have a really hard time figuring out if they are a deal or not. Is there a formula to figure it out?

Here's an example

$72.99 FREEZER PLAN "B"

3 LBS. SIRLOIN PORK CHOPS
3 LBS. GROUND CHUCK
1 ROAST CHICKEN
4 LBS. ROAST BEEF
2 LBS. STEW BEEF
2 LBS. BURGERS
2 LBS. ALL BEEF FRANKS
2 LBS. HOT OR MILD SAUSAGE
2 LBS. CHICKEN LEG QUARTERS

I would go to your local grocery and jot down their prices and then compare.

 

[queenofthehive]

Yes, you will have to price each out individually to see if it is a good deal. In my neck of the woods, this would not be a good deal as I am better stocking up as each type goes on sale. Example: ground beef on sale at bi lo for $1.99/ lb. split chicken breast $1.29 (better quality IMHO than leg quarters), chuck roast $2.99 / lb, Bulk sausage I can usually get for $1.50/lb if I watch the sales. Start a list of the prices and purchase meat when the sale price is at least 40% percent off. Buy enough for of it for what you would use in 6 weeks period. 6 weeks later it will go in sale again for that rock bottom price. Stores are usually cyclical in that way. But in short price out each individually and do the math to compare as each part of the country has diff. prices.

 

[java]

These are the per pound prices near me in nj

Local meat market has various freezer plans, but I have a really hard time figuring out if they are a deal or not. Is there a formula to figure it out?

Here's an example

$72.99 FREEZER PLAN "B"

3 LBS. SIRLOIN PORK CHOPS (on sale around $2.49)
3 LBS. GROUND CHUCK(80/20 is about $3.25)
1 ROAST CHICKEN $1.19 lb
4 LBS. ROAST BEEF (sandwich? That's about $8.99 lb)
2 LBS. STEW BEEF(2.50)
2 LBS. BURGERS bubba burgers are $ 8.99
2 LBS. ALL BEEF FRANKS ? You can get these cheap usually
2 LBS. HOT OR MILD SAUSAGE $2.75

2 LBS. CHICKEN LEG QUARTERS

.71 a pound this week


So guessing sizes of chicken I would say not a great deal compared to grocery store, but if you pay meat market prices might be a good deal

 

[MOpGrad2013]

I think the price is high, but I am basing off my local meat market's pkg. For $56 (tax incl) I can get 5# bone in chuck roast (2 roasts), 5# end cut pork chops (12-13 chops about 5" dia), 5# gr beef, 3# fresh sausage, 5# smoked picnic (these are sliced 1" thick) j 10# chicken leg quarters.

Leg quarters have alot of bone. i cook them and then debone them. It makes about 3# of shredded meat.

But I don't know your local meat prices per pound. Also, does your family normally eat these cuts? In all things, it's only a bargain if you can use it.

 

[java]

Chicken quarter recipe

Dip in ranch dressing, dip in bread crumbs mixed with a tbsp corn meal and Parma cheese. Bake in 375 oven or about an hour. I do drizzle with a little olive oil. These are big hits in our family. Easy way to use up the quarters!

 

[Sadie22]

The grade and leanness of meat matters very much to me, and I like to see and choose each item. With these freezer plans you may be given just so much of this and that wrapped in butcher paper. If it's not what you would normally choose, it's no bargain.

 

[KalamityJane]

I just bought a 1/4 grassfed beef and only paid. $4/lb and we got sirloins, rib steaks, etc out of it, so I don't think that is a good deal.

 

[aubriee]

I guess it would depend on meat prices where you live, but it seems a little high to me.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

The grade and leanness of meat matters very much to me, and I like to see and choose each item. With these freezer plans you may be given just so much of this and that wrapped in butcher paper. If it's not what you would normally choose, it's no bargain.

If you are used to eating only grain fed, penned cow and you get grass fed (and thus free range) cow, the difference in taste can be quite unnerving. Also, you can be pretty sure that, in this case, the butcher isn't giving you the best cows he's slaughtered that fall into the grass fed category.

If you like grass fed (think a sort of cross between what our current taste buds call "domesticated" and wild) then it's not a bad deal, but not a great one either, I think. But if you're not used to it, and even if you are and you expect good quality cow, it's not going to be much of a bargain.

 

[worm761]

I think that it really just depends on the price of meat near you. It works out to just under $3 a pound which is expensive for some stuff but cheap for others. And it depends on the quality of meat you are getting.

We have a butcher. He only sells meat and few odds and ends. It is owned and run by a local family. I LOVE my butcher. And I love his butcher boxes. All of his meat is hormone free, antibiotic free, unenhanced (no sodium solutions added!), and pasture fed. It is not organic but pretty close. We buy his largest box and pay $2.36 a lb. It has rib eye, in house ground beef, roasts, pork chops, in house sausages, bacon, whole chickens, leg quarters, and more. Plus, if you don't like a particular cut offered, he will exchange it out for something else of equal value.
Meat near me is expensive. Chicken breast is 4.59lb. Roasts are in the 9-10 dollar a pound range. And that is not the almost organic that I get from my butcher. This is run of the mill grocery store stuff. Plus, you can't beat the customer service!