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Sarah Gray[_2_]

Sheldon > wrote in news:1801bf89-f7f6-479e-9480-
:

> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>> "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
>>
>> > Buy meat on the last day of sale when marked down $20 or more. �
> I've never
>>
>> Well, dayam, Ed!! �Am assuming that's 20 percent, not 20 dollars.
>> The store where I shop most doesn't have a Used Meat bin -- no price
>> reductions. �
>>
>> My food co-op has some reduced price meats occasionally, but that's a
>> longer trip for me than Cub.
>
> Occasionally, very occasionaly I'll see meat marked "Manager's
> Special" (mostly it's cured meat but sometimes it's fresh meat), it's
> the dregs that no one wanted and looks it, plus it's been out for sale
> for quite a while to reach it's Last Day of Sale and there's no way to
> know how well it's been refrigerated all that time... no matter what
> it's going to be funky and runt of the litter meat... I never buy that
> meat, not to save a few cents, and sometimes it's actually priced more
> than it was when first put out when it was on sale. Much of that
> expired meat ends up in preground mystery meat, they're permitted
> because meat ground at the market does not require USDA re-inspection
> nor is ground meat ever USDA graded.
>
>> Grinding brisket, eh? �I'll have to try that sometime.
>
> Flat cut brisket (the cut you braise) is too expensive to grind and
> full packers cut is mostly fat... and for my taste brisket is too
> tough for burgers unless you grind it thrice and then it's more a
> rough pate the texture of canned dog food.
>
> People on a low budget are far better off buying fresh top round than
> more costly used meat cuts... top round is a very versatle cut with
> little waste, it's the cut most likely to be on sale at $5/lb as a
> BOGO.
>

$5 a pound is too expensive for nearly anything when you are working on
a limited budget...