5 Reasons Buying Meat in Bulk is Best
Our freezer, full of home grown meat.
Buying meat in bulk is the best and easiest way to feed your family trustworthy meat all year long.
We get it, buying meat (or anything, really!) in bulk can seem intimidating on the surface. But, it is ultimately the best foundation for feeding your family well all year long.
These are my top five reasons that buying meat in bulk is best for families.
1) Premium cuts for approachable prices
Filet mignon is often considered the most premium, and therefore expensive, cut of beef available for the common consumer in the US. Buying filet mignon at the grocery store typically costs $30-$60 per pound. If you want it prepared and served to you at a restaurant, you could be looking at $65-$120 for your plate.
I literally have a brown bag full of filet mignons in our freezer at home, which each cost us the same amount as a pound of ground beef. Buying a meat share from a local farmer means paying a flat fee for the processing of all cuts of meat, regardless of how premium they are considered to the mainstream market.
Instead of $60 a piece, the filet mignons in our freezer cost us far less than $10 a piece.
2) Food security at home
There’s not many things more reassuring as a parent than opening your freezer to find it full of high quality protein. It’s an uneasy feeling opening the freezer to see nothing but a few crumbs and maybe a pack of bacon. Buying meat in bulk gives you a feeling of comfort knowing your family will have filling, high quality, and nutrient-dense food available for the months to come.
3) Easiest way to meal plan
Having meat consistently on hand in the house makes meal planning a breeze. Forgot to make a plan for dinner tonight? Pull your family’s favorite cut of farm fresh meat from the freezer, stick it in a bowl of water to accelerate thawing, cook it and serve with a veggie and a carb. Dinners built around protein are easy to create on the fly and are sure to satisfy.
4) You know where every bite of meat your family eats all year came from & how it was raised
Getting beef at the grocery store? A large amount of beef in US grocery stores is imported from Canada and Mexico.
Searching specifically for grass-fed at the store? You are likely to be buying beef raised in Australia, Uruguay, or Brazil.
If you’re snagging some beef raised in the US, it likely traveled to the store shelf from a feedlot in the midwest - over 95% of beef raised in the US spends the end of its life in a confinement feedlot operation.
Wondering about where the pork on the shelf comes from? There’s a high chance it came from Iowa - up to 40% of America’s pork is raised in confinement operations in Iowa.
In other words, most meat on the grocery store shelves has traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to get there and was not raised to the high standards of health, quality, and well-being we follow on our farm.
5) You choose the cuts
Hate ham, but love ground sausage? You can choose to forgo having a ham cut from your pork share and instead have it ground into loose sausage instead.
Don’t have time to form patties out of loose ground beef when it’s time to make burgers? Your butcher can freeze the farm fresh ground beef into individual patties for your convenience.
Love maple sausage but hate Italian sausage? You can choose to have all of your sausage maple flavored and get no Italian.
Buying meat in bulk from a local farmer is the best and easiest way to feed your family confidently all year long. You can easily stock your freezer with high quality, nutrient dense protein by buying a meat share from our farm!
Now, every time you grab the protein for your family’s meal, you know exactly where it came from.
Here’s to feeding our families well!
Hannah