Meat prices, was Re: [Sca-cooks] Marrow substitute

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 08:41 PM 5/4/2005, you wrote:
>Unless you're buying it in the 10-lb. chubs, hamburger here is over
>$3/lb.  It costs more than boneless, skinless chicken breasts.  Steaks
>are 4 and 5 dollars a pound (or more, for the fancier cuts), roasts
>usually over 3, unless you find a screaming deal.  Pork not that much
>cheaper, and let's *not* mention the price of fish.
>It's enough to make me go vegetarian, for pete's sake.  Given current
>living situation, I can't even buy in bulk when it's on sale.....
>*sigh*
>--sue in nw artemisia (montana)

That's pretty near to here- and there's really no excuse for the prices, 
even of seafood. (And why is beef so high in MONTANA, or all places?) My 
student Larry was over for a work night a few weeks back- I got the urge to 
make soft tacos, and was horrified to find that all of the hamburger (yes, 
except for the chub) was in neat little 1.25lb boxes- for $3.99! That's 
ridiculous! For one thing, why 1.25lbs? It used to be in 1lb packages, or 
in 'about' a pound packs. And $3.99 for that much? Where not talking the 
extra low fat stuff either- I get the 15% fat, not to 10 or 7%. Maybe it's 
a good thing I'm not really eating much meat anymore- when *hamburger* is 
that expensive... I can remember my mom yelling about 79 cents a pound- 
there was some sort of boycott going on too. '73? '74 maybe? I can remember 
where we were shopping then, and her cornering the grocery manager. (Hmm... 
maybe I come by it honestly...) We ate a LOT of hamburger then, so I 
suspect it hit her budget really hard.

I'm beginning to wonder what's left to eat!

'Lainie
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O it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it 
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