/ck/ - Food & Cooking

If youre on minimum wage you have a few options the way i see it

1)Treat yourself like once a month to a nice steak dinner

2)Buy cheaper steaks like flank or skirt steak

3)Make roasts out of things like chuck instead of making steak that way itll fill your craving for fatty beef

4)If your grocery store has a "on sale" section of their meat cabinet always be on the lookout. They usually put stuff on deep discount that they have to sell or it goes bad. This is what I do for cheap steaks. I find on mondays there's usually house marinated stuff or weird cuts like flat iron for like 40% off.

5)Save up and purchase a 1/2 or 1/4th of a cow once a year. See pic. This is west coast prices, most states have 4$/lb hanging weight which works out to about $6.13 per lb of a take home meat. Of the 100ish lbs 1/4 cow will only work out to about 10 lbs of nice steaks (ribeye, filet) and about 5 lbs each of short rib and cheaper steaks (flank, skirt, etc.) though.

You could also learn to cook shortrib. https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/05/the-best-inexpensive-steak-for-the-grill-part-3.html

Or do what anon suggested above and shove all the meat down your pants at the grocery store.