Comments on: Getting the Best Deal on Poultry

By: L

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:13:24 +0000

This is great, I always wonder the same thing. Thanks

By: CarrieK

CarrieK — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:57:49 +0000

Please, please consider how the bird was raised before you buy it. Yes, properly raised birds cost more, but they are worth it. Consider this: you get what you pay for and you can pay now or pay later (with poor health) I could write about the deplorable conditions factory birds are raised in, the disgusting diet they feed them, I could write about the chemicals and pharmaceuticals involved in raising factory birds, I could write about the long term contamination of the water supply and the ground….but I think all of you need to do the research yourselves. We have been conditioned to believe we deserve and need cheap food. Cheap food equals poor health. Go read anything by Michael Pollan. Go google Polyface Farm. There are people out there properly raising meat the way God meant…and they are not going broke buying it or eating it. When more people demand healthier meat, when there becomes a market for healthier meat, the big agribusinesses will start to listen. End of lecture

By: Handful

Handful — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:55:55 +0000

PS: Love the old-fashioned pictures on this post and the home-schooling!

By: Handful

Handful — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:52:51 +0000

I have always wondered the same thing. Math is definately not my forte so I try to take my Main Man the the store with me to do the math if possible. But this helps with the bone in/bone out issue.

A quick true story: I was shopping at a discount store a bit ago. This store had bought out another store and everything was 90% off! I was so excited – what a bargin! Now, I can do 10% off, so all I had to do was multiply that by 9 and and then subtract that from the original amount! (OK, anyone who can do math is now free to laugh, all others can continue with my story…)

Anyway, Main Man called from work to see what was up. I excitedly was telling him how much everything was. He told me that it was 10%. I said no, it is 90% off. And as I struggled to calculate how much the $45 item was at 90% off, he said, “Baby, it’s 10%.” Still didn’t click in my little blonde brain! It was weeks later that I finally understood what he was talking about!

The other day I came home from the store and proudly announced, “Baby, I DID MATH!” He asked me how I did it.

I answered, “With my phone!” I was quite pleased with myself!

By: Erin from long island

Erin from long island — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:47:48 +0000

thanks for sharing this! I am often torn between the lower-per-pound price of meat with skin and bones and the “I am paying for bones, how ridiculous.”

Does that make sense? I make stock with the bones, but I still worry I am not saving as much as I think I am when I buy my usual leg quarters with bone and skin

By: Ivory Soap

Ivory Soap — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:55:40 +0000

bridget, yes, I do. I wish everything was organic. I love organics. But, not enough to drive half an hour to the next town to the special store and pay three times as much.

We eat a lot less meat than the average family. So I take comfort in the greatly reduced number of bad-life-having factory chickens and the reduced emissions from not driving my car across the county for one bag of chicken.

By: bridget

bridget — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:01:13 +0000

A question. When buying chicken, do you just buy any old brand? I am trying to be more mindful of my meat purchases (free range chicken, etc) but have a hard time reconciling it with the frugal side of me. It makes me very tired also. What is a girl to do.

By: aurelia

aurelia — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:47:35 +0000

You are just the bee’s knees for putting this together!

I have a set grocery list that I’ve made using Pocketmod’s pdf to pocketmod creator. Looks like I’m going to need to revise it with this info!