Guess how much 1 lb of roast beef was in the deli of my grocery store?

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OY, less of the S & M on GLP, and nobody wants to see 'Brief' with a black eye . . . even with a mouthful of protein!

eeeeughhhh

Seriously though, OP, I pay £3 (average) for 600 grams of cooked, sliced roast beef, from a nice cut.

What's going on over there?

Cat, the other white meat.....

A lot of farmers lost their corn and hay crops due to the drought and its driving the beef prices high.

Yes everything is going up-seeds, fertilizer, fuel, maintainace&parts. One bright spot for the consumer is corn prices. They are predicting a fall back to the 4 dollar range. DEPENDS UPON WHAT CHINA BUYS AND THE WEATHER. THAT SHOULD DRIVE DOWN MEAT PRICES, ESPECIALLY CHICKEN AND BEEF. Sorry for the caps. China will sometimes come in and buy big-sometimes not. Grain faRMERS ARE WALKING A TIghtrope. It's a very volatile situation. Profit and loss can swing wildly.

Brief doesn't do any of those things...





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It's total wallet rape!

lol...

groceries all across the board have gone up. it's taking a big chunk o' money to keep my household fed. I got a 20 yr old son with big appetite too. have found that I can't afford to buy nearly the amount of meat that I did just like a few months ago.

Finished deli prices are always 2x or more then raw.

1- 2 lb beef roast @ $3.99/lb
1- George Forman Rotisserie
1- Meat slicer from a yard sale
1- Handful of sea salt and black pepper

Few hours till the outside is getting brown and crispy and the inside is just right.

One quart of beef broth reduced (boiled) down to a cup or two.

A few cheap hoagie rolls.

French Dip heaven. If you pick the right broth, MSG free!

Maybe less then half the cost factoring in electricity and definitely the labor but the taste is more then worth $11 per pound.

Last Edited by IRQ_1 on 10/18/2011 11:30 PM

Ah, OK.

Is the drought right in the beef famring zones? Texas, I presume?

Gotta feel for the farmers in this, food productioon costs in all farming is being squeezed. Here in the UK, not only are inflationary issues squeezing profits for farmers, but the 'big' supermarket chains are in prallel squeezing too.
Not tem mention the incentives for ditching conventional farming in favour of biofuel supplies.

Tough time for farming, not exactly unplanned by TPTB methinks.

I should hope not!

Everything in the deli is outrageous. I get a little sick to my stomach when I walk up to buy meat or anything else, I can't justify spending that kind of money on something I don't need, so I've stopped in recent months.

We actually went out and bought a deep freezer. Stocked up on meats a while back, so we are at least stocked for the rest of the year. I've been learning to cook venison recently, and will be learning to cook with fish this summer. Thanksgiving is coming up, hopefully turkey will be a good price, gonna stock up on that too. Just keep an eye out on sales, and coupons are your friend, right now canned veggies are on sale for 50 cents a can where I shop.

what kind of roast is 3.99/lb?

butt roast?

My beef last time was 2.26 a pound for steaks, roasts, hamburger and brisket. I buy from a local farmer and have it processed at a local butcher shop.

Price included butchering.

Think I'll have a steak tonight!

I paid $14.99 for a small corned beef a few weeks ago, un-real. Nothing is cheap anymore.

thats because you bought a whole side of beef.

And you could do the same, just do some research. And if you know how to process your own food it could be even cheaper, that's what we are doing with our venison.

The real cost of beef is somewhere north of $20/lb. The subsidies that government gives corn farmers makes cow feed artificially cheap.


It was one way that government hid the TRUE INFLATION RATE for so many years.

Stop living high on the hog,for one thing. learn to eat cheaper cuts of meat. don't buy the name brand stuff all the time. You don't need it. eat lots more fresh fruits/ veggies, it helps to cut down on your grocery bill. stop being so darn picky,too. you're not that perfect. Buy cheaper cuts of meat.
Here in the South, where I live, we learn to live off neck bones and collard greens. Eggs from our own chickens,we grow our own gardens and can/freeze that. 1 10 lb. bag of leg quarters washed and cut up and put into freezer bags will help spread out your meat situation.I buy the cheaper hamburger, and seafood, I won't even touch because of the recent oil spill last yr.I buy what I can afford, if that means buying 2 packs of chicken gizzards and neck bones to go with some cabbage i have along with potatoes, then hey, i can stretch it out. I can make soups out of the hamburger with lots of veggies and beef broth and I can stretch,stretch, stretch what i have to.

People don't even know what pork neck bones are used for or howto cook them. Here's a hint, I use them as a seasoning meat to go with greens. Hell, I grew up on them as kid. You ate what was put in front of you or you went to bed hungry. We're not rich anymore. There are mothers in China telling their own children to eat because there are starving kids in America,and shes' right.

I don't even stop at the deli.
Too expensive for my taste. i grew up poor and i know what i can afford. I don't live high on the hog. Hell, I don't ever hardly go out to eat. I cook at home.
Bills first. Food with what's left over. and I make it count,too.

I just paid 14.99 per pound. Obviously I didn't look at the price before I had them slice me a pound. No more roast beet for me!

Put the free shitters on a beans , rice and gruel diet . Only working folks should get other stuff and the price will come back down.

get an electric pressure cooker and make cheap cuts of meat succulent and juicy

I saw $8.99lb for ballz heads roast beast....thoomans was a bit moar....

Last year and the year before, the midwest ranchers had to sell all their cattle to slaughter because of the extended 100+ degree temps and the drought. You can get water to a herd, but you can't protect them from unremitting higher than body temperature weather.

Then this year there's been a huge infection going around on piglets, so of course ham will increase in price (ditto the drought problem).

This year, the corn and wheat crops have either been drought stricken, or flooded in many areas.

Time to get chickens, raise worms to feed them and think about how else you can augment your diet; everyone who has any land at all should have a garden going (more people in your family, more people to help) and investigate aquaponics; for a few grand you can set up a system that not only will feed you, but make you money. You don't need good dirt, a parking lot or driveway will suffice. The neighbors might complain until you start selling them super fresh organic produce at half the price of the grocery store...

Consider what might happen if a long-length quarantine is put into effect (figure by this January to April) because of an Ebola spread. The stores will NOT be open.

Make your own!!!


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Most of that charge is the cost for the convenience for the roasted and sliced part.

I bought a roast last week at my local butchers for something like $3.00 a pound. (Slightly less, IDK 2.98 2.99 a pound, one of those odd cents numbers).

Mind it was raw and I needed to roast it and slice it myself.

I got about 10 pounds of solid meat for roasting, slow roasting it over night at less than 300F in the slow cooker, letting it stew in its own juices with lots of herbs and spices....

I sliced it myself.

It is the work, the time, the energy and the spices and herbs you pay for at a deli for roasted (cooked) meats.

Same thing applies for ham. Ham needs to be at least cured, if not fully cooked and sliced.

You buy deli meats and you are paying for the prep time, not just the meat.

Prepackaged deli-meats are cheaper because of mass production. Real Delis, the ones that actualy do the cooking and prep work at the location will charge far more at the store than large chain grocers which have a centralized location for mass production of deli foods.

$8 and change

Neither tesco nor morrisons sell 600g of roast beef for less than £9.50,
Where are you finding it for £3?