@Jsmth321

Well yes -- which is why I also specified that we don't have it that often. If I'm going to splurge the money on beef, I'm going to have the tenderloin, and I'm going to cook it up how I like it. But we don't do it often because it is rather an expensive meal.

Conversely to your cheaper chicken, the whole tenderloins here are cheaper than your $100. Is that the denuded price?

I think the whole denuded here runs about $70-80. 'berta beef I guess

Ever since the oncologist told not to eat beef or for that matter any red meat I have stopped eating it for over five years now

Have burgers often enough whether at home, BBQ or just out and about from fast food or sit down restaurants.

Probably eat a proper steak 5 or 6 times a year tops.

Yes...sorry...was just using it to illustrate a post I made earlier.
There are some mid-price splurges that are worth it as well.

We had some Prime Rib Premium Roast as Superstore called it, $13 down to $7 a lb. They do the same with T-Bone occasionally too.

School and training is a hurdle I have not been able to conquer. I don't do well in school and can't compete at the academic level required to even get in. I have a list of jobs I'd enjoy and pay well, I just can't get to the academic level required. I've never done well in school, memory can't remember things well...lol

I was born 20 years too late, born 20 years earlier and I'd have likely had a better life.

Career training programs are out there and there are training programs through Work BC. As you say easier to access if you are unemployed. SOme employers can access training grants and some see a benefit to training their staff and helping them upgrade skills. Of course there are employers who would sooner have untrained employees in case they spend the money and the employee leaves. What's worse than training staff and having them leave? Not training them and having them stay!

The TSSP I believe has now finished, but gave employers $1500 toward training staff Train Your Staff

There is also this program if your employer will cough up 33%, the govt pays 66%
Canada BC Job Grant

Not sure how we got from beef to career training?

Agreed - there are vocational training and learning options that don't require 4 years of lecture time. It just means compromising today (free time, disposable income etc) for a better tomorrow.

You can't just throw your hands in the air saying you can't do it, and wait for someone to legislate you to a better future. You have to do it yourself.

... but some folks need more help and guidance than others. Some are highly motivated and confident, others find this more of a challenge. Sometimes it can be the support group around you. If one joins groups and clubs, this can be a help. Toastmasters International can be a great help in networking and confidence boosting.

It takes the bux to buy the beef. I knew a guy who was living in Chilliwack and was so poor and got so desperate one night he took a splitting maul and stepped through the fence and murdered a cow and just started butchering it. Hours later full of steak he'd taken the last of his cash to the bar for an after dinner drink when the local Staff Sergeant entered. "I don't know which one of you killed my prize Aberdeen Angus cow, but I know one of you did it!" Nobody would rat him out and they all spent the night in jail. He had no idea it was the mountie's cow. Years later he ended up suffering severe brain damage in a fight over road rage in Regina and died way too young, good guy though.

Yes, I still buy beef,
despite of its high cost,
my tongue really need the taste
of the beef at least once a week.

I buy a steak once a week, I have notice its gone up in price significantly, but I agree on the salmon front, I used to buy salmon once a week, but I think that's shot up in price more than beef.

we still have a roast on Sunday, which does a hot meal for 2 on Sunday with enough left over for cold meat and something for 2 for dinner on Monday, and a lunch sandwich for one.

We alternate between pork, beef and lamb

so yes, we still buy beef.

If pork is on special at Safeway, OH will buy a larger piece, then cut it into half or even 3, and freeze the extra piece(s).

We usually buy our beef and lamb from the butcher we have bought from for many years ......... he cuts a beef roast to the size he knows we like, but will also cut a large leg of lamb into 3 pieces for us, we then cook one and freeze two.

He has also taken a large ham on the bone and cut that into 3 smaller pieces for us, same idea .......... cook one, freeze 2.


I also always have at least one large pack of extra lean ground beef and one of stew beef in the freezer ready for making shepherd's pie or a stew. Extra portions of pie or stew are frozen in individual serving sizes for future meals.


It all becomes very cost effective when you spread the cost of the meat over 2 or 3 or more dinners.

We are working on going back to school next spring if we get in, it's hard to get into even the most basic of certificate programs these days because of competition and when your not academically talented it's an uphill battle.

I am having trouble making a budget work for school that keeps our bills paid, at 35 and 36 we don't have the same kind of resources most 20 year old students have (mainly parents, and less bills)

Work BC unless they have changed things requires one to be unemployed, which I am not so they are not an option.

All of our bills except cable are fixed amounts that cannot be reduced (car payment, car insurance, rent,) and cable is being cut to save the 47 a month but it's a tiny amount when all is said and done.


Unfortunately neither of our employer is willing to invest into training employees, like most employers in the service sector, we are considered disposable and the employers see no benefit on their part to invest into training that isn't needed for the job we do.

Not sure how to locate generous employers who are willing to participate in those programs.