Reply #58: Do you have a local butcher for the small farms?

[knitter4democracy]

Aldi? Hunting? Our local butcher's prices are some of the best in the area, and the quality's the best. We got a whole deer from a herd culling at a research station for just the price of the processing, and that's lasting longer now that STBX is gone and it's just me and the two kids. Aldi has good meat prices, as does our Horrocks (I wish that were everywhere--they're like a farm market but way, way, way better with very low prices). If I need something, I get it when it's on-sale and put it in the freezer. Horrocks will have pork tenderloins (pkg of two for three bucks), beef tenderloins (entire loin for $20 or so that I then cut down), and chicken on sale twice a month.