You know about the meat diaper right? This year my husband and I started buying our meats; beef, lamb, chicken, pork, at the butcher. This particular butcher does all sustainable, and grass fed meat. Honestly, as we grown older the corn and soy feed has just not worked for us! Over the months, I’ve really grown to enjoy our trip to the butcher and to pick out what we will eat for the week. Earl always gets something special for our old German Shepherd Blaze too.
They have turkey and chicken and all cuts of beef and pork. Earl LOVES ground lamb burgers! It is all raised and healthy and sustainable ways. We were leaving this last week, and I had a chuckle because we were talking about how great it has been to get to know the butchers and show up every weekend to buy our meat. I also had to laugh at how different the quality of the meat is on every level, not just in how it’s raised and butchered. Earl made a comment about that plastic wrap and Styrofoam that you find in the stores when you buy meat, and that plastic thing they put in there to “soak up the juice.”
I laughed and said, “yeah, it’s like it’s a meat diaper,” Earl laughed out loud. You have to wonder when they have to put a diaper in your meat what’s really going on with it don’t you?
Every now and then somebody will comment how expensive it is to eat meat like that. Yes, is the price per pound a little higher, of course it is. But, we also have learned that our portions were pretty out of control, so I buy way less than I used to, so we’re really not spending any more than we did before. And the cool thing about the butcher? He will give me exactly the amount I want, no more or no less, pretty much of every cut we could want.
