Kitchen

[PamfromCT]

@layla2450 

My DH does eat some red meat, but much less than he used to.

I have not eaten red meat - beef or pork - for years.  I still eat chicken, though. Never have eaten anything from a baby animal.  We do eat a good amoint of vegetables.

We also eat a good amount of fish--and fish is quite expensive now, as well.  Any kind!
It is just my personal choice to eliminate red meat, and I do not judge what others choose. 
I will say that even during our vacation at Cape Cod this summer, when we eat out for dinner every night, fish was still

not cheap.

[sunshine45]

was looking at the chuck roasts at sams club......over $10 a pound......WOW!

[Goldengate8361]

@jackthebear @Not me. I eat beef 6 out of 7 nights a week...every week. I only eat "prime", too. It's crazy expensive, but I am saving myself from big medical bills by a healthy lifestyle of a very low carb diet. Besides, it tastes good. 

[ID2]

I live rural Michigan. I'm always shocked at the prices around the US. I shop only our small stores, Amish, local farms. I pride myself in buying local and supporting the small businesses. No price gouging where I live. 

[ScrapHappy]

On occassion I'd buy a 4 pack of steaks (usually ribeye or sirloin).  Ribeye would be about $50, no higher than $55.  Sirloin less.  Nice steaks, thick, good size.  The last time at Costco that cheapest I could find was $88 (for ribeye).  Had no sirloin.  My husband likes a sirloin tip roast in winter months.  I'd put in crockpot all day.  When I started buying it a few years back, it was $4.99/lb.  On sale sometimes at $399/lb.  It's now close to $11/lb.  That ends that.  Won't buy.

[gardenman]

I'm not seeing the big price jumps. I bought 2.72 pounds of 80/20 ground beef at Acme last week-ish (09/19) for $10.31. It was sale-priced, but even at full price, it would have been just $14.93. And Acme is reportedly one of the highest-priced "general" supermarkets around. It was very good ground beef too. A pound of bacon on the same order was $4.94.

If anything, sale prices here are better than they've been in the last few years. I've always been a sale shopper and don't just blindly buy stuff at full price if I can help it. But I'm not seeing much stuff costing more than it has in recent years. Many things seem cheaper, at least on sale.

Maybe I'm in an inflation-free zone or something, but my costs are stable or declining. I don't see the runaway inflation that a lot of you are reporting. If anything, my money is going farther. Granted, I try to buy things on sale and stock up, and I don't buy fruits and veggies that are out of season, but my costs are stable or decreasing somewhat. 

The current Acme ad has bone-in beef strip steak for $7.99 a pound. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts for $2.99 pound. I'm just not seeing big price jumps here. Maybe if you ignore the sales and buy everything at full price, you're paying more, but for me, prices are stable or declining. And Acme does not have a reputation of being a "cheap" supermarket.

[wagirl]

I know!!!!! Prices here near Seattle are freaking high too. Beef especially but seems chicken and pork are decent. We don't eat much red meat really anymore----I still can get pretty good prices using AMZ Fresh --I order weekly from there and  they have awesome weekly sales. Bought those tiny lamb chops a few times for next to nothing and have salmon coming on AD from here. Any steaks I get are usually sirloin--my fave anyway. 

[cindyNC]

I would love to decrease the amount of meat we eat.......the BF has often said that I would be a vegetarian if  we didn't live together. 

My take is that the people who are rurual and on farms are going to survive the high prices better than anyone else.  They can be self sustaining. 

[We rescue cats]

We're in a semi-rural area so we buy our meat and protein from local suppliers. We have 3 freezers in the house and they are at capacity. I wish I canned food but never learned it.

[MaverDaver]

I refuse to give up my beef especially my NY strip and porterhouse. Eat steak once a week. Just bought 4 NY strip. 3/4 thick for 38.00. That's two meals for DH and me.