There was a butcher in town many years ago. I'm not sure he's still there. He mostly sold to restaurants and stuff but he also sold to regular people. The cuts of meat were awesome but you had to buy it in large quantities. If I remember correctly the minimum portion size he sold was 10 to 15 lbs or more per cut (depending on the animal and the desired cut you wanted).

I'd go to him and stock up on chicken, burger, steaks, sausage, roasts. He had good prices since it was straight from the butcher and you didn't have to go through a middle man. I'd buy a months worth of stuff. Probably would cost me a couple hundred bucks of meat for the month (this was back 20 yrs or so ago when $250 of meat could easily feed two 4 person families per month).

Usually it was a group buy. I'd buy it since the butcher shop was only a couple miles away and split it with the sister-in-law. Both families would be be stocked for the month on beef, chicken and pig.

If I remember correctly, you could also buy a full cow or half a cow butchered to your desire. I think he did the same with hogs. I didn't do that. I never had the freezer capacity to hold half a cow or a full pig worth of meat.

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