Posted: 2/28/2012 8:45:46 PM EDT
With beef going up in price, I decided to buy a side until herds are replenished and supply goes up. Bought a deep freeze from Sears for $231 and the side of beef butchered and vacuum packed ran me $760. We are set for the next year. I am getting a pig butchered next month and will be raising 4 dozen meat chickens just to diversify. We already have a 16 cubic foot upright freezer, the deep freeze will be barely big enough to hold everything else. There will be plenty on the table this year.
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| When I was deciding on what foods to get for LTS I went with the ability to have protien in the event of prolonged power failure. I picked up several cases of freeze dried hamburger, chicken and pork chops. A lot of guys around me have cattle and will be splitting a cow with another guy in the spring. |
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As said above, make sure you have a way to keep your stores frozen if the power goes out. Don't forget that when the hordes are going after the ice following a power outage, they usually leave the dry ice alone. Be smart. Hit the supermarket with a few towels, roll down the windows on the way home, and keep everything in the freezer at -10 with dry ice. |
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I had thought of doing this. I have talked to ranchers here in NM and decided to watch the store sales on beef instead. It seems that the going price for a steer on the hoof here is about $1k for a 600lb to 700 lb steer. out of that you get about 300 lb usable beef. include processing and my beef costs $1200. At that my math shows i am paying about $4.00/lb. This includes burger, steaks, roasts etc... I buy burger on sale at $1.99 and chuck steaks/roasts at $3.00/lb. We never have went for prime rib, ribeye, t-bone etc...
So for me buying the whole thing just didnt make sense. |