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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2012, 02:45:01 PM »
Well I did some shopping yesterday and today and I didn't need meat except for frozen burgers, we don't eat them that much but sometimes just throw them on the grill, I got a 16 pack of the store brand 3 oz. burgers for $11.99. There were some good sales so that seemed to of offset rising prices. Loaded up on the water and paper products at BJ's, can't beat the water prices, $3.89 for a 30 pack of Nestle water and $5.99 for a 48 pack of 8oz. Poland Spring Water, but I had a coupon for that $6.00 off when you buy 3 cases, so I ended up with 5 cases of 16oz. water and 3 cases of 8oz. water for a little over $30, not bad at all. I'll go to Walmart and Aldi's tomorrow for just some staples and snacks and I'm pretty much done with grocery shopping for the month.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #26 on: August 04, 2012, 03:56:35 PM »
Most meat prices are going to spike soon due to the drought across most of the bread basket states.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #27 on: August 04, 2012, 10:39:20 PM »
In honor of PETA's new "did you know pigs are smart as dogs?" campaign, Scoobie and I went to get some ribs this morning.

Walmart had NO RIBS.  None.  No baby backs, no St. Louis, no nada.

Had to go to Market Basket.  Got the packaged 2-rack package of baby backs.  $3.99/lb.

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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #28 on: August 05, 2012, 12:27:09 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on August 03, 2012, 08:49:43 PM
You're gutsier than I am. I won't buy their fresh ground meat. I might buy a pork shoulder and maybe some chicken, but that ground meat stuff scares the hell out of me especially in Wally World where the people are goofy and the meat is goofier.

I use a local meat market, which incidentally, I'm going to check out and see what they're asking for a side of beef.

If the prices are coming down down down, it makes sense to do it that way and fill the freezer.  :drool:

Same here. I do not buy meat from Walleymart. Even worse is their seafood. Not eating something that has been farm raised in polluted waters like the chewy crawfish. I mostly eat Louisiana seafood.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #29 on: August 05, 2012, 12:50:51 AM »
Great idea for a thread. I shall do my best Clara Pell imitation. I will add the franksolich twist "How much is the ground beef?".
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #30 on: August 05, 2012, 08:30:29 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on August 04, 2012, 03:56:35 PM
Most meat prices are going to spike soon due to the drought across most of the bread basket states.

Prices should drop first because there'll be a glut of meat available. But next year...............
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2012, 08:11:19 AM »
Last night (Sunday night), I went over to the big city, and stopped by a different grocery store.

Ground beef, 85% lean, $2.40 per pound, but only in 5- and 10-pound rolls.

And that's a special price (but no coupons needed, no limit), not the usual price.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #32 on: August 06, 2012, 08:50:54 AM »
3.09 per lb in the roll, 4.79 per lb for 85% in a pack.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #33 on: August 06, 2012, 05:27:32 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on August 06, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
3.09 per lb in the roll, 4.79 per lb for 85% in a pack.

That price of $2.40 per pound surprised me, because it was at the grocery store where the Country Club set shops.

It's not close to "expiration date," and there were tons of it.

The market's being glutted right now--thus my advice that one stock up now, and during the next couple of weeks, if one has a freezer--but it's going to be a different story altogether once the cattle growers have nothing more to send to market.

I figure the last week of October, hamburger will be sky-high.

Of course, remember, franksolich is not a market expert.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #34 on: August 06, 2012, 06:26:45 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 06, 2012, 05:27:32 PM
That price of $2.40 per pound surprised me, because it was at the grocery store where the Country Club set shops.

It's not close to "expiration date," and there were tons of it.

The market's being glutted right now--thus my advice that one stock up now, and during the next couple of weeks, if one has a freezer--but it's going to be a different story altogether once the cattle growers have nothing more to send to market.

I figure the last week of October, hamburger will be sky-high.

Of course, remember, franksolich is not a market expert.

Pitched in on a half a cow in the spring time.  I have more hamburger than I know what to do with right now, and my freezer is currently broken, so until it is fixed, or replaced, I have no room for anything more.  Which stinks.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2012, 06:36:35 PM »
I'm a cow's half full kinda guy.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #36 on: August 07, 2012, 01:53:38 PM »
I think we're paying just about $4.00 for 80%. Ground Turkey is actually getting cheaper to buy.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #37 on: August 07, 2012, 04:57:03 PM »
I've gotten to where I use venison in my spaghetti and chili. I still use ground beef for hamburgers, though.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #38 on: August 08, 2012, 06:52:58 AM »
Quote from: Wineslob on August 07, 2012, 01:53:38 PM
I think we're paying just about $4.00 for 80%. Ground Turkey LOBSTER is actually getting cheaper to buy.

Fixed it for up here.  I'm serious.  Market Basket live and kickin lobsters are $3.99/lb.  Places in town are charging $3.25-3.50, and if you go to the docks you're looking at under $3/lb.

Even the local Walmart (ours has HUGE lobsters) are under $5/lb.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #39 on: August 08, 2012, 07:50:04 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 08, 2012, 06:52:58 AM
Fixed it for up here.  I'm serious.  Market Basket live and kickin lobsters are $3.99/lb.  Places in town are charging $3.25-3.50, and if you go to the docks you're looking at under $3/lb.

Even the local Walmart (ours has HUGE lobsters) are under $5/lb.

Sigh. I'm trying to talk my wife into moving to NH. Her dad is up there. I wanna live where lobster is cheaper than ground beef.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #40 on: August 14, 2012, 06:22:45 AM »
Went to get gas and coffee at 5 am this morning. Flipped on the radio and got half the story. Obama is going to spend XXX millions of government money to buy up "drought" caused sales of cows, chickens, turkeys, etc. and he said, The government has large freezers"....which to me means their going to rent space in public coolers to keep the prices artificially high until the "drought" caused shortage kicks in and drives the prices up more.

The Obama Plan: Bust the government and starve the people too. Worked for Stalin.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #41 on: August 14, 2012, 08:24:13 AM »
Well, last night at the grocery store in the big city, there was "81% lean" ground beef for $1.99 a pound.

I've never heard of "81%," but that's what the labels said.

This again was at the store where the County Club set shops; one of those places with a cashier at every register, no waiting in line, and a carry-out boy at the other end.  A whole army of butchers behind the meat-counter, ready to comply with every whim.  And helpful people in every single damned aisle.

I don't shop there because I'm a member of any Country Club set; it's just that it's geographically convenient for me, and being a single person who has to get groceries only for myself, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference if something costs me $3 there, or $2 in a major grocery store. 

Whatever involves dealing with the least traffic.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #42 on: August 14, 2012, 08:28:29 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 14, 2012, 06:22:45 AM
Went to get gas and coffee at 5 am this morning. Flipped on the radio and got half the story. Obama is going to spend XXX millions of government money to buy up "drought" caused sales of cows, chickens, turkeys, etc. and he said, The government has large freezers"....which to me means their going to rent space in public coolers to keep the prices artificially high until the "drought" caused shortage kicks in and drives the prices up more.

The Obama Plan: Bust the government and starve the people too. Worked for Stalin.

Yeah, $170,000,000 worth.

That's a drop in the bucket; they shouldn't even be wasting your and my money for it, because it's so meaningless an amount, although Barack Milhous is trying to make it sound like a hundred or a thousand times more than that.

Barack Milhous is going down, no matter what he does. 

There's hope for America.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #43 on: August 14, 2012, 02:22:24 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 14, 2012, 08:28:29 AM
Yeah, $170,000,000 worth.

That's a drop in the bucket; they shouldn't even be wasting your and my money for it, because it's so meaningless an amount, although Barack Milhous is trying to make it sound like a hundred or a thousand times more than that.

Barack Milhous is going down, no matter what he does. 

There's hope for America.

I guess this means "his people" will be eating very well while the rest of us put up with artificially controlled prices.   Maybe they will start offering "gubmint meat" instead of "gubmint cheese".
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #44 on: August 15, 2012, 02:16:57 PM »
I was at Kroger yesterday and checked some prices.  The store brand hamburger in the sealed tubes was $3 a pound, three times higher than chicken and nearly twice as much as the pork.  The store-ground stuff in the sealed styrofoam trays were slightly more and the steaks were astronomical.  I picked up my usual chuckeye on sale for $4.50 a pound but the other cuts of steak were twice that much.

Looks like I'm going to be eating chicken for a while.
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« Reply #46 on: August 15, 2012, 05:19:58 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 08, 2012, 06:52:58 AM
Fixed it for up here.  I'm serious.  Market Basket live and kickin lobsters are $3.99/lb.  Places in town are charging $3.25-3.50, and if you go to the docks you're looking at under $3/lb.

Even the local Walmart (ours has HUGE lobsters) are under $5/lb.

Lobster sounds good right now.

I was never crazy about crabs.  :censored: :rotf:
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #47 on: August 15, 2012, 06:44:57 PM »
Today my flyers show Krogers has beef rolls for 1.99/lb, and Tom Thumb has 93% lean for 2.99/lb.
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Re: price of hamburger
« Reply #48 on: August 15, 2012, 06:46:18 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on August 15, 2012, 06:44:57 PM
Today my flyers show Krogers has beef rolls for 1.99/lb, and Tom Thumb has 93% lean for 2.99/lb.
Must be a sale or coupon price.  Or it MIGHT be because you're in Texas.

By the time they drive the beef up here with diesel prices today, three bucks a pound sounds about right.
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« Reply #49 on: August 15, 2012, 06:48:56 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on August 15, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Must be a sale or coupon price.  Or it MIGHT be because you're in Texas.

By the time they drive the beef up here with diesel prices today, three bucks a pound sounds about right.

Same here.

Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. Three day weekends usually turn it into a "door buster item."

The only cows in my town are at a large dairy. If you get drunk enough you might find one on a bar stool.  :lmao:
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