Have you noticed the lack of sale items on meat?

Yeah, those prices are low for my neighborhood. I just looked at ads for the 3 major chains near me (I forgot there is still one lone Lucky's) and none showed meat prices, they showed bogo sales, but not what the prices were.

There is an app called flashfood that shows what’s on deep discount at participating stores that day (near me it’s only lucky’s) but others across the country who use it have found great deals, but you have to be quick bc they sell out fast.
 
lana-in-fl said:
If you eat fish, definitely take a look at the Asian market when it opens. The quality and price of fish at the Asian markets here in Orlando is incredible.
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I’ll try, but most here have them swimming in tanks and I have a hard time pointing and saying kill that one. I know, I’m weak. This is also why I can’t cook lobster.
 
mariadnoca said:
I’ll try, but most here have them swimming in tanks and I have a hard time pointing and saying kill that one. I know, I’m weak. This is also why I can’t cook lobster.
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I have to cover my eyes when I walk by the lobster tank in my supermarket. It's a saddening sight.
 
I checked today to see if chicken "backs" were back...and yes, chicken backs were "back" in town!
At $2.79/lb.

What can you make with these other than stock/broth?


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mariadnoca said:
I’ll try, but most here have them swimming in tanks and I have a hard time pointing and saying kill that one. I know, I’m weak. This is also why I can’t cook lobster.
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Oh no! Mine doesn't, they are nicely dead and lying on ice. Thanks goodness! There are some live tanks, but I walk past them with eyes averted.
 
marilynfl said:
Pork loin ribs are on BOGO sale this week, but since I don't cook them, I have no clue if this is a good price. This is BBQ country.
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Works out to $3.34 a pound. I prefer the St. Louis cut, which you probably already know is basically a sparerib with the sternum bone, rib tips, cartilage, and a small flap of meat known as the skirt trimmed off. The result is a meaty, fatty, squared-up rack of ribs that is much more "forgiving" on the barbecue than Loin Back Ribs and Baby Back Ribs. They are from different parts of the ribcage, and they cook differently. If you aren't careful, you can dry out back ribs pretty easily, and the meat is like sawdust.

We get both St. Louis cuts and Baby Backs on sale here for anywhere from $0.99 to $1.99 per pound.

I buy them in the suction pack (cryo-pac) and freeze them. I can grill them year-round that way.
 
sooo....basically all this poster did was steal a bunch of recipes and replaced "chicken thigh" or "chicken leg" or "chicken breast" or "chicken pieces" with "2 lbs of chicken backs."

Then set "chicken backs" in the title so a keyword algorithm pushes it out during queries.

How original.
 
I buy almost all my meat at Costco and they rarely have sales. But I do have an advantage. My daughter works at Sprouts and grabs the meat when they mark it down and has put a good bit of sale priced meat in our freezers.

Proud to say that she has really gotten into cooking and is not afraid to try much of anything these days. She just made some ropa vieja and shared some with us. It's really quite good. She used too many things that had added salt so it was a little salty but I ran through her list of ingredients and had her pull them and look - the particular sazon she used had sea salt as the very first ingredient. Then she said she used sofrito and there was salt as an ingredient in all the meat flavorings in that, and she used regular beef stock, not low sodium. She learned an important lesson in making your own seasoning blends or adding just the seasonings rather than buying blends full of salt and sugar.
 
Marg CDN said:
way back, I had a friend who was feeding kids on a tiny budget. She bought gizzards regularly. I tried them once and didn't hate them. Livers are good, mixed with rice, curry, tomatoes, etc. Maybe the store are just trying to help out people trying to survive in a very costly world.
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It is getting harder and harder to find gizzards. Livers are a little easier to find but not much. My husband likes these sandwiches that we sort of 'invented' back in Oct. '24 when we spent a month in NYC in an AirBnB but were so sick it was all we could do to walk across the street to Fairway. But now he likes it if I actually buy a turkey breast to roast and they are like $15. I feel like we are going to be eating our way through my Rancho Gordo inventory a lot faster these days.
 
music-city-missy said:
It is getting harder and harder to find gizzards. Livers are a little easier to find but not much. My husband likes these sandwiches that we sort of 'invented' back in Oct. '24 when we spent a month in NYC in an AirBnB but were so sick it was all we could do to walk across the street to Fairway. But now he likes it if I actually buy a turkey breast to roast and they are like $15. I feel like we are going to be eating our way through my Rancho Gordo inventory a lot faster these days.
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I’ve noticed when I buy a whole chicken it doesn’t come w the innards anymore.
 
music-city-missy said:
It is getting harder and harder to find gizzards. Livers are a little easier to find but not much. My husband likes these sandwiches that we sort of 'invented' back in Oct. '24 when we spent a month in NYC in an AirBnB but were so sick it was all we could do to walk across the street to Fairway. But now he likes it if I actually buy a turkey breast to roast and they are like $15. I feel like we are going to be eating our way through my Rancho Gordo inventory a lot faster these days.
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Do you have any ethnic stores near you? I can get gizzards at the Hispanic stores here, and most supermarkets have chicken livers in little tubs. We love gizzards in chicken soup (though SIL won't touch it then) and we make Portuguese moelas with them. Oddly enough, our Costco has started selling what they call 'chicken paws'. I'm not a fan, but DH and DD enjoy them, and they are great for soup.
 
lana-in-fl said:
Do you have any ethnic stores near you? I can get gizzards at the Hispanic stores here, and most supermarkets have chicken livers in little tubs. We love gizzards in chicken soup (though SIL won't touch it then) and we make Portuguese moelas with them. Oddly enough, our Costco has started selling what they call 'chicken paws'. I'm not a fan, but DH and DD enjoy them, and they are great for soup.
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We do. I’ll have to look. 🙂
 
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