Meat prices. What's a sale?

[Rebel SS]

1.99 chuck roast?  Now you're talking....

JUst picked up two. 

[Reinhard]

Mistake on my part.  If you look at my post,  It was supposed to say  boneless breasts 1.99 lb., forgot to put the word breast in there.  The chuck roast followed that and they are 3.99 lb.  Senior moment.  good luck.

[Rebel SS]

That's OK, RH. I had about four of those today. Then it was time for lunch.

[Reinhard]

Cub this week has beef T-bone steaks and large snow crab clusters for 7.99 lb. Pork baby back ribs 2.99 lb.  Hot deal on half boneless pork loins [ getting some for Canadian bacon] 1.69 lb.  Meal deal for this week is, buy a beef boneless chuck roast and get 5 lb. potatoes, 1 lb. carrots,2 lbs. onions,and a 12 ct. pack of dinner rolls Free.  Perdue boneless chicken breasts 2.99 lb. 80% lean ground beef or 90% lean Jennio ground turkey in 3 lb. tubes  Beef bottom sirloin steaks 4.99 lb.  Perdue fresh drumsticks or things 1.29 lb.  Pork shoulder blade steaks 2.49 lb.

County Market has beef boneless chuck roast 2.98 lb.  Center cut pork chops 1.98 lb.  Boneless beef rib eye steak 10.98 lb.  boneless center cut loin pork roast 1.99 lb.  Boneless pork country style ribs 1.99 lb.  good luck.

[Reinhard]

Cub this week has 80% lean ground beef, 90% lean Jennio-o ground turkey, or baby back ribs 2.99 lb.  Fresh whole fryers 99 cents lb.  however the Waterford Cub store in Plymouth has the whole fryers for 69 cents lb. all week [inside store special].  Going to get some there for sure.  Beef bottom sirloin steak 3.99 lb.  Beef T-bone steaks or Alaskan Coho fillets 8.99 lb.  Large snow crab clusters or Artic shores x-large 26/30 count shrimp in 16 oz. packs 8.99 lb.  Smoked Cooks bone in hams 1.39 lb.  Perdue boneless breasts 2.99.  Wild cod fillets 4.99 lb.  Meal deal this week is buy a half boneless pork loin and get a 12oz. pack broccoli florets, 1 box of Idahoan mashed potatoes, and a 12 oz. jar of Heinz gravy free.

County Market has boneless pork chops $2 lb.  Coupons for goldnplump whole fryers 56oz. each and everyday essential 16 oz. bacon 2 for $7.  Eye of round steak 3.69 lb.  Eye of round roast 3.49 lb.  Pork spareribs 2.49 lb.  Pork shoulder steaks 1.99 lb.  good luck.

[Boar]

hugos has spareribs .99cents a pound, limit 4. i grabed 4. hormel poilrk loin 1.58 lb. i grabed 2.  rieny i m gona look at ur spare rib recipe, for this weekend. its gona be Boars rib fest.!

[Reinhard]

This week Cub has boneless 1/2 pork loins 1.99 lb.  Pork center cut bone in pork chopos 1.99 lb.  85% lean ground beef in 3 pound tubes 3.48 lb.  Jennio 90% lean ground turkey 3.48 lb.  Breakfast meal deal.  Buy a 3 pound pack of applewood bacon and get a dozen eggs, simply potatoes hash browns 12 oz pack,and a six pack of donuts, Free.  Honeysuckle bone in turkey breast 1.79 lb. Beef boneless NY strip steak 8.99 lb.  Beef bottom sirloin steak 3.99 lb.  Beef sirloin tip roast 4.99 lb.

County Market has boneless pork sirloin roast 1.38 lb.  Beef boneless beef ball tip steak 3.48 lb.  Bonless beef arm cut roast 3.49 lb.  Boneless pork sirloin chops 1.99 lb.  GoldnPlump chicken drumsticks or thighs 24 oz. packs 2 for $5.  Tuna loins 8.99 lb. 

Kirkwood fresh chicken parmesan cutlets 4.49 lb.  Fresh family pack chicken drumsticks 69 lb.  Seasoned chuck roast 3.99 lb.  good luck.

[Rebel SS]

This is one of the main reasons I will not shop Sly-Vee...to me, it's deceptive advertising. This weeks SALE...85% hamburger, 2 lb pkg....$12.  That's $6 a lb, for chrissakes!!!! Everywhere else it's $2.99 right now.  I see this kinda stuff  in their ads all the time.

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[delcecchi]

Yep.   Wife goes for that kind of stuff.   But she likes their 8 oz strips even though they are a bad deal.  Not one for big food.   

So we buy some.  But I tell her that I get angry every time I go to HiVee for any number of reasons. 

[Reinhard]

One thing to remember about Hy Vee's meats.  Only in their service counter is the beef USDA Choice.  The rest of the meat in their meat counters is Seclect.  They give it a fancy name but it is Select, just like Walmart's meats. Places like Cubs, Sam's, Coburn's, County Market, Festival and Costco for example have all Choice beef.  good luck.

[Rebel SS]

Hey RH...can you elaborate a bit on the price of chuckeyes? I'm thinking they were normally priced at right around $8 a lb at Fareway....when I got them for $5.99 on sale....

[Reinhard]

The chuck eye is part of the chuck.  It's where the rib eye "enters" the chuck, so it's a extention of the rib eye one could say.  Boneless rib eye's around here I would say average around $14 per pound depending where you shop.  The chuck eye can be as low as 4.99 at times when chucks are on sale to a little over $6 a pound when not.  I haven't seen them higher than that for choice, but some stores could price them higher.  good luck.

[Rebel SS]

Thanks, RH! I'm pretty sure they are around $8 here...I'll check with my butcher buddy at Fareway in the next couple days, and let ya know.  Might help clear up Del's dilemma, too.   

[hawg]

I've never been in a Hi Vee, there are none around here so I can't say if they have Select or Choice. Sounds to me Reinhard knows his stuff but my advice would be just look for the Choice sticker, I don't think any food chain would are mislabel a product as highly regulated as meat. I can't read the specs on the burger patties but keep in mind patties are the biggest rip off in the industry and the price is all over the place. I try to avoid prepackaged burger as it usually mechanically deboned and full of those little bone and cartilage chunks. They're pretty tough/chewy because of the compression too.

[Rebel SS]

RH is the pro butcher and the meat AUTHORITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No questions asked!~ 

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[Rebel SS]

I've never been in a Hi Vee, there are none around here so I can't say if they have Select or Choice. Sounds to me Reinhard knows his stuff but my advice would be just look for the Choice sticker, I don't think any food chain would are mislabel a product as highly regulated as meat. I can't read the specs on the burger patties but keep in mind patties are the biggest rip off in the industry and the price is all over the place. I try to avoid prepackaged burger as it usually mechanically deboned and full of those little bone and cartilage chunks. They're pretty tough/chewy because of the compression too.

The patties are 85/15 choice. HyVee does this ad come-on thing consistently, makes you think you're getting a great buy.  If you pay $6 lb. for 85/15 choice burger, you've got a screw loose. It's $3.99 tops and way below that everywhere. Hy-Vee is the most overpriced stuff I've ever seen, with the exception of a Kowalski's.

[dew2]

I noticed that around here also>>Performed patties are almost 2X the cost a burger!!

[dew2]

Hey RH...can you elaborate a bit on the price of chuckeyes? I'm thinking they were normally priced at right around $8 a lb at Fareway....when I got them for $5.99 on sale....

Not RH but supply and demand play a facter with chuckeyes. A steer can supply 14-16 bone ribeyes BUT only 8 bone chuck eyes,so there are fewer which if the demand calls can be over priced.Out here right now 12oz ribeyes are 6 bucks each at Cashwise that equals 8 bucks a lb chuckeyes are the same cost if they even have any.So for equal prices I''ll take the ribeyes any day LOVE THAT FAT off the caps!!

[Rebel SS]

I noticed that around here also>>Performed patties are almost 2X the cost a burger!!

Paying for the cost of convenience.  Hy-Vee caters to that crowd here...all the rich doctors and lawyers in this town practically staff the place.  I bought 15 lbs of fresh 85/15 grind  three weeks ago at Fareway for $2.99 lb. Pig chops have been going for .99 lbs there lately, too. Picked up a bunch of thick pork steaks (blade steaks, my favorite) for $1.19 lb.

[Reinhard]

Patties are always higher because of the extra labor.  I've made plenty of them.  I used to be able to get a whole chuck eye roll.  Tied two together and made that instead of a prime rib.  Very good.  A whole chuck eye roll could give you up to 10 or 12 chuck eye steak but the deeper it goes into the chuck the tougher they get.  If I cut a whole boneless chuck we only took the first two or three chuck eye's off then the rest of the cut's would be chuck roasts.  When chuck roasts are on sale the chuck eyes can be had at 4.99 lb.  That's because like Dew said, there are a lot more of them and they have to move them.  The bigger the store, the most traffic, you would have more chuck eye's due to more sales.  So this is why you see different prices at different chains or store's.  This is true with other cut's as well.  Pork right now is cheap.  Lot's of sales with really low prices.  Stock up.  good luck.

[delcecchi]

OK, went to fareway today reb, after the gym.   Chuck eye was 6.88 (sale).   NY Strips were 7.99   

Got the strip. 

[Dotch]

I noticed that around here also>>Performed patties are almost 2X the cost a burger!!

Paying for the cost of convenience.  Hy-Vee caters to that crowd here...all the rich doctors and lawyers in this town practically staff the place.  I bought 15 lbs of fresh 85/15 grind  three weeks ago at Fareway for $2.99 lb. Pig chops have been going for .99 lbs there lately, too. Picked up a bunch of thick pork steaks (blade steaks, my favorite) for $1.19 lb.

You forgot those rich IBM'ers Reb...

Just curious, has anybody seen or priced lamb in the store lately? In particular chops and legs. Pretty sure it ain't cheap. I know some people squeal when we sell them a lamb and charge 2x the live weight price for the processed meat + the price of the processing. For example, 50 lbs. worth of meat (typical for our 100 lb. lambs) at 2 x $1.50 (2 x market price) + the $80 worth of processing comes out to $230. Divided by the 50 lbs. that's $4.60 a lb. We should probably be charging more than that but then we don't keep back a lot of them for the locker plant. A couple for ourselves and then a few sometimes for those who've spoken for them earlier. We are sold out BTW...    

[dew2]

 Little comparison of names and costs Its funny when one goes for breakfast and has Cheesy Grits and toast for 4 dollars a serving.
 Up the street its called cheesy palenta with brusheitta or crustani for 15 bucks a serving.
 Go out to a grocery and get Noname 6 oz steaks (eye of chuck steaks) for 6.99,The same grocery has  eye of chuck steaks for 8 bucks a lb.BUT then in the fresh meat case they have a steak named after a old time hotel called Delmonico steak same eye of chuck for 12.99 a lb
 Misleading or smart marketing you choose. Just be informed is best!!

[dew2]

I noticed that around here also>>Performed patties are almost 2X the cost a burger!!

Paying for the cost of convenience.  Hy-Vee caters to that crowd here...all the rich doctors and lawyers in this town practically staff the place.  I bought 15 lbs of fresh 85/15 grind  three weeks ago at Fareway for $2.99 lb. Pig chops have been going for .99 lbs there lately, too. Picked up a bunch of thick pork steaks (blade steaks, my favorite) for $1.19 lb.

You forgot those rich IBM'ers Reb...

Just curious, has anybody seen or priced lamb in the store lately? In particular chops and legs. Pretty sure it ain't cheap. I know some people squeal when we sell them a lamb and charge 2x the live weight price for the processed meat + the price of the processing. For example, 50 lbs. worth of meat (typical for our 100 lb. lambs) at 2 x $1.50 (2 x market price) + the $80 worth of processing comes out to $230. Divided by the 50 lbs. that's $4.60 a lb. We should probably be charging more than that but then we don't keep back a lot of them for the locker plant. A couple for ourselves and then a few sometimes for those who've spoken for them earlier. We are sold out BTW...

I dont see chops in area stores but legs are at 16-18 a lb.I'd love to buy a whole lamb from you.No processing just kill bleed and come home.The blood would come with me.Yer a drive from here but the costs you just posted would be worth it>>>>>If I can drive that far!!!!
 The  legs look like they been vac packed for years!!!!

[Rebel SS]

OK, went to fareway today reb, after the gym.   Chuck eye was 6.88 (sale).   NY Strips were 7.99   

Got the strip.

Excellent! I'll bring the taters and sour cream. I want mine on the grill though, not in a bag with that soused-up vaginy thing. 

[delcecchi]

Excellent! I'll bring the taters and sour cream. I want mine on the grill though, not in a bag with that soused-up vaginy thing. 

Oooh, missed it by that much.  Sorry, it is gone.  And the price was quoted wrong, strip was 7.88 per pound.   

Had that Normandy mix from Costco, cooked with a couple pieces of bacon, scalloped potatoes from a package with added onion, butter, cheese  and tortilla chips, and steak.   

Sorry no pictures. 

Been keeping kitchen neat and clean for wife's book club.  It is over so stopped by fareway after the gym.

[Rebel SS]

Excellent! I'll bring the taters and sour cream. I want mine on the grill though, not in a bag with that soused-up vaginy thing. 

Oooh, missed it by that much.  Sorry, it is gone.  And the price was quoted wrong, strip was 7.88 per pound.   

Had that Normandy mix from Costco, cooked with a couple pieces of bacon, scalloped potatoes from a package with added onion, butter, cheese  and tortilla chips, and steak.   

Sorry no pictures. 

Been keeping kitchen neat and clean for wife's book club.  It is over so stopped by fareway after the gym.

Normandy mix? Is that like the drink sex on the beach?! 

[hawg]

Reinhard, I like it when people know their business. I was in the food business for years also. Way back to when I used to cut steaks for Harry's Cafe downtown by 10th and Nicolett, one of the only 5 star restaurants in the area at the time. I find it's hard to explain cuts to people because they know what they see on the shelves and not all the different trims. Evne worse, I downloaded an app to show friends some of those differences with top butts, 1184-1184A-1184B and prime rib 109-110-112 and guess what, even some of the old meat cutters numbers were changed. Even cold water and warm water lobsters seem to different in different places. Man, I'm old!

[Reinhard]

Ya Hawg, you are right.  Lot's of changes.  Not just in meats but in sausage.  When I first started out it was all hanging beef.  hinds and fronts.  We would also get rounds hanging with the shank on.  We had to break it all down.  Now it's all boneless except for short loins, standing ribs, and bone-in strips.  It's a lot easier for the butchers now that remain in the buisness and there are fewer and fewer journeymen left.  They are being replaced with on the job training with no skills.  Had to cut all the chicken for the counter back then, now it's all pre packaged.  Same with lamb.  Whole lamb back then and now all pre packed for the most part.  Man it's been a long time, I think we used to get whole pork loins and whole butts way back also so nothing has changed much there.  Whole fresh hams we used to brine and smoke.  Made our own corned beef.  Swedish sausage was great and sold a lot.  Didn't have all the crap they put in sausage now back then.  Still some great sausage though in the small shops around though.  That's why I still make my own.  good luck.

[hawg]

I think back also to how good jerky used to be. I still search out the good stuff but remember when some of the small shop's jerky was basically just "controlled rot" and actually had flavor? I loved that stuff. Even jerky needs a little bit of fat for flavor in my book. I like Jack Links for mass produced but that seems to be the Gold Standard even meat shops strive to duplicate these days.