Actually, a half a beef. Together, we decided that this year would be the year we took the plunge and purchased a half a beef. We knew, first hand, of someone who could hook us up with a farmer who raised grass fed beef. Someone who vouched for the high quality of the meat and the integrity of the farmer.
In the past, it was the large one-time outlay of money that prevented us from buying our beef on the hoof, as it were. Things conspired just so this summer that we were finally able to have that hunk of cash available.
All said and done, that hunk of cash was about $1400. For what turned out to be over 200 pounds of meat, custom cut and wrapped to our specifications. Which, roughly, is $7 per pound. A tad pricy for hamburger, but way cheap for roasts and steaks any more. And honestly, the packages of burger that we've used so far have been more equivalent to ground sirloin than the bargain hamburger at the store. It's very flavorful, and doesn't cook up to have hardly any grease. Like, so little that I haven't needed to drain the meat after cooking it, and I'm one who can't stand greasy meat.
I have the feeling we just stumbled onto one of those "now you've experienced it, you can never go back to store bought" things. Like having our own laying hens for eggs, and raising our own broilers for meat. And tapping maple trees and making our own maple syrup. We are definitely going to have to budget that chunk of change for a half a beef every year going forward.
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