Beef, do you buy it still?
 

Story on the news about increasing prices of beef over the last 3 years, and asking consumers if they still buy it or not, most asked answered they no longer do.

I bought some beef patties for burgers yesterday, probably the first time in a year or more we bought beef from the store, our primary meat sources are chicken and pork for me, fish for my wife.

The store always seems to have a surplus of beef these days, and always out of pork and chicken, and the beef always have the $3 off stickers on them, not enough discount to buy beef though.

So do you still buy beef despite the high costs?

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I usually rustle mine.:lol:

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Not so much, but more about changing tastes than price.

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Prefer chicken but we do buy fresh burgers now it's warmer BBQ weather

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Sometimes I buy a family-pac of lean ground beef and split it into 4 or 5 portions, wrap them and freeze them. Usually it's something else though. On those occasions when I go out for soup at my favourite Vietnamese pho place I'm most likely to order beef sate' or stewed beef. I'd like to go shoot a deer this year and have meat for months.

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Or a bear ?

The cops shot a bear in Newmarket in order that they could get to the donuts left out by a home owner

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I've eaten it a few times but didn't think it was so good I'd bother hunting them for the meat. My next door neighbour and my cousins up north hunt and eat them. If the cops shot one in my yard and left it I'd probably eat it. A game warden I went to highschool with had to shoot one in Regina back in the 90's but we don't get many bears around here, more likely to have a moose or deer wander into the city and those are safer to tranq and re-locate with the available equipment.

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I tried deer once, didn't like the taste, not a big meat fan really, I just eat it as all vegetable diet wouldn't work seeing as I don't like those either.

I am just not a fan of food, and if there were a way to never eat again and stay alive, I am the first in line.

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:rofl:

Just have a fry up with glass of OJ every morning and be done with it.

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Yes, steak at least twice a week. Ground beef less often, although that increases in the summer obviously.

Any less and we'd be run out of Alberta.

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Yep still buy beef.

There's usually something available for around $4 lb either as steak or a joint and you can do things to it to greatly improve the flavour.

Very often something that I wouldn't dream of paying full price for is significantly reduced and I'll get some.

The trick is to not look at the cost in isolation.

Every few weeks there's something on offer called Pork Picnic Shoulder - which oddly is not always the same thing :confused: and is really a 'Ham' except when it appears to be pork with crackling :unsure: but it's 99c a lb.

It's about $9 for something the size of a football and there's a ton of meat on it. Enough for four twice with leftovers for sandwich or salad.

Then there's your pasta meals where all the ingredients cost no more than $5 and it makes plenty for four twice.

When you can do several meals for four that cost somewhere between $3 and $8, paying $14 for just your meat - which we've done with beef and lamb lately - looks expensive but really doesn't change your average cost much.

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Usually get a couple ribeye steaks from our local butcher about once a month. I buy sirloin if we have to have HID's cradle friends over. ;)

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I buy a whole tenderloin from Costco and cut it up into portions... we have it maybe once a month? So one whole tenderloin, which costs about $100, gives me about 14 portions, so it's good for usually about 6 months. I generally try not to eat it THAT often but that's more about just trying not to go overboard on red meat as opposed to getting too worked up about the increasing cost. If we ate it regularly then I'd be more bothered, but since it's a treat every so often, I'll happily still buy it. (And it's still significantly cheaper than getting it in a restaurant!)

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Still buy beef, never really noticed price change, but now you come to mention it. Then I guess it goes along with the many other rising prices and wage increases.

Farming often pays min wage to labourers, and three years ago we had a 28% hike in minimum wage, so now the consumer is paying for it one way or the other.

Did notice a huge leap in salmon prices in Costco and chicken in BC has always been expensive as it is volume and price controlled by quota. Dairy and hot house veg is also controlled, which keeps prices up.

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I didn't check Salmon when I was there yesterday, but the package of chicken breasts, which is usually 8-10 breasts, was going for $13.99 yesterday, which I think is the standard price it usually goes at.

Salmon I *think* goes for about $22/kg, i think that's one I posted about last month in the Groceries thread... has it changed since?