anatess
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- Jul 26, 2011
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- Bullie (RIP) & Angus (RIP)
One of the local meat shops in my town had a sales ad in the paper, so I went there to do all my shopping for the month. And here's what I ended up with:
60 lbs of beef hearts - 99 cents a pound (see notes below)
50 lbs of pork shoulder - 99 cents a pound
40 lbs of chicken leg quarters - 65 cents a pound (this was the thing that they had in the ad, it's usually 79 cents a pound).
10 lbs of wild-caught whiting - 2.99 a pound
3 lbs of beef liver - 1.39 a pound
3 lbs of beef kidney - 1.39 a pound
Then I got added discount at the register (from the sales ad) so that I ended up only paying $165 for the whole thing.
Notes:
1.) I can only get beef hearts for 99 cents a pound if I buy the entire 60lb case. Otherwise, it's $1.69 a pound on sale, $2.39 regularly.
2.) 8lbs of pork shoulder yields about 1lb bone and 7lb meat in my experience. Yes, I chopped up 8lbs worth of pork shoulder and weighed the bone. I'm a geek. The pork shoulder can be too big for my bulldogs, so I don't give it to them as a meal, I give it to them as a chew toy so they chew up the edges of it and after a while, I throw the rest away. Bullie and Angus have finished an entire pork shoulder bone apiece - but that was a rare occurrence. Usually they get tired of chewing on the stuff.
3.) For the wild-caught whiting, each fillet is wrapped in vacuum pack. The fish is caught in the Atlantic ocean, flash frozen, and shipped to China for packaging. As I stood there debating the merits of buying the 2.99 Chinese packaged whiting versus the 6.99 fresh unpackaged whiting, I decided, since the fish does not contain any other ingredients but the fish, the Chinese only contributed the plastic wrapping. Yes, the plastic wrapping could be contaminated but, as this is sold in an American FDA-controlled store selling people food, I figured the risk is worth the price.
And so I got the next 1.5 months worth of staples for my 3 dogs.
60 lbs of beef hearts - 99 cents a pound (see notes below)
50 lbs of pork shoulder - 99 cents a pound
40 lbs of chicken leg quarters - 65 cents a pound (this was the thing that they had in the ad, it's usually 79 cents a pound).
10 lbs of wild-caught whiting - 2.99 a pound
3 lbs of beef liver - 1.39 a pound
3 lbs of beef kidney - 1.39 a pound
Then I got added discount at the register (from the sales ad) so that I ended up only paying $165 for the whole thing.
Notes:
1.) I can only get beef hearts for 99 cents a pound if I buy the entire 60lb case. Otherwise, it's $1.69 a pound on sale, $2.39 regularly.
2.) 8lbs of pork shoulder yields about 1lb bone and 7lb meat in my experience. Yes, I chopped up 8lbs worth of pork shoulder and weighed the bone. I'm a geek. The pork shoulder can be too big for my bulldogs, so I don't give it to them as a meal, I give it to them as a chew toy so they chew up the edges of it and after a while, I throw the rest away. Bullie and Angus have finished an entire pork shoulder bone apiece - but that was a rare occurrence. Usually they get tired of chewing on the stuff.
3.) For the wild-caught whiting, each fillet is wrapped in vacuum pack. The fish is caught in the Atlantic ocean, flash frozen, and shipped to China for packaging. As I stood there debating the merits of buying the 2.99 Chinese packaged whiting versus the 6.99 fresh unpackaged whiting, I decided, since the fish does not contain any other ingredients but the fish, the Chinese only contributed the plastic wrapping. Yes, the plastic wrapping could be contaminated but, as this is sold in an American FDA-controlled store selling people food, I figured the risk is worth the price.
And so I got the next 1.5 months worth of staples for my 3 dogs.
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