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Anatomy of a Meat Share
Jan. 5th, 2021 06:03 pmI require a certain amount of meat in my diet to function, both because if I'm not eating enough red meat I start getting sick (and it does *have* to be beef or buffalo or goat or similar; I've tested it) and because there are so many other things I can't eat that it needs to form part of the thing I can.
I would rather do the meat from local farms; I've established recently that meat not from local farms doesn't taste good.
Walden Local will sell me, for $50 every other month, 5 pounds of meat every other month-- I think at least a pound of that is ground meat and the rest is assorted other things which I would be much less willing to consider had I not discovered the magic of crock pots. (Also it arrives frozen so I do have time to figure out how to cook anything weird.) And I'd need to either check off the "no sausage" box or find a way to query whether their sausage routinely contains fruits or mushrooms.
There's no commitment involved, so I suppose there's no harm in trying it--- especially if I also invest in small tupperwares so leftover roast can be frozen in portion size-- but I'm still mentally going "That is... actually a *lot* of meat..." (On the other hand, I suspect this would actually bring my food costs *down*, since it would have the effect of me buying less by way of snack foods and insta-foods and more of my meals being "wrap leftover meat in tortilla; have done with it." Especially if I got enough tupperware to go back to "make hand pies, freeze" as a viable survival tactic.)
I would rather do the meat from local farms; I've established recently that meat not from local farms doesn't taste good.
Walden Local will sell me, for $50 every other month, 5 pounds of meat every other month-- I think at least a pound of that is ground meat and the rest is assorted other things which I would be much less willing to consider had I not discovered the magic of crock pots. (Also it arrives frozen so I do have time to figure out how to cook anything weird.) And I'd need to either check off the "no sausage" box or find a way to query whether their sausage routinely contains fruits or mushrooms.
There's no commitment involved, so I suppose there's no harm in trying it--- especially if I also invest in small tupperwares so leftover roast can be frozen in portion size-- but I'm still mentally going "That is... actually a *lot* of meat..." (On the other hand, I suspect this would actually bring my food costs *down*, since it would have the effect of me buying less by way of snack foods and insta-foods and more of my meals being "wrap leftover meat in tortilla; have done with it." Especially if I got enough tupperware to go back to "make hand pies, freeze" as a viable survival tactic.)
