Re:Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?
by GordonS on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @10:26AM
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Not sure where you are, but it's the same story in the UK. I rarely eat beef or lamb nowadays just because it's so expensive, and instead eat more chicken, pork and local game.
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In the UK it's really noticeable how beef has shot up in price, chicken is starting to climb a price/quality tradeoff (cheap mystery chicken is everywhere, nice standalone chicken breast quite pricey), and pork is still cheap. Lamb I'm less interested in but is all imported from NZ anyway. Venison is becoming a thing. Ostrich didn't, to the disappointment of a number of early investors.
Re:Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?
by have_humility on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @11:56AM
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Try going with whole chicken and separating the pieces yourself. You can even throw it into a slow cooker completely frozen if you're lazy. The downside is the time it takes to do the separation, but I've found that in aggregate it's actually a marked convenience, even compared to buying already separated chicken breasts. 1 whole chicken = 8 meals for me, and prepping it only takes about half an hour.
Last year I essentially switched to chicken as my only meat source for meals eaten at home, mostly by default. I sort of ditched that around Christmas after becoming bored of it, but I've found that after doing 1 hour of prep time (half an hour for chicken, half an hour for packing salads) twice a week with the whole chicken approach, it's hard to go back spending 1-2 hours a day in the kitchen, 5-7 days a week--which is a routine I managed for years up until then.