/ck/ - Food & Cooking

According to your calculations, you'd pay 4,426 dollars for 400 bags of 3.5 oz of real jerky

According to my calculations, based on the weight of the bag. You spent just over a dollar per 3.5 oz of tofu jerky, which sounds nice until you realize that you spent about 5 bucks per lb on jerky. so lets see you got 400 bags of beefless jerky, divide that by 5 and you have approximately 80 lbs of tofu that you bought for about 426 dollars.


Idk if you got that great of a deal. A quarter cow goes for around that price and that's over 100 lbs of beef (more if you get non retail cuts), and you can get an even better deal if you had bought a whole cow, which is usually 400+ lbs of beef and that's usually less than 2000 bucks if you can find the right guy.

So your theory that you could only get 90 lbs of jerky quality beef for almost 4500 indicates to me that your calculations are off.

Pic rel is 1/4 cow.

>>17208489
if you're going to do a raw meat diet you really should invest in a chest freezer and buy wholesale meat. Even if all you eat is beef a whole cow will feed you for a year. Also the quality difference is night and day.

>>16532595
All your food is fucked up with microplastics in it.
Just get some fucking meat.

100% grassfed ruminant meat is the way to go. You don't even have to buy it that often. 1/4 of a cow should last you a year and the highest quality pasture rotated beef is 9 dollars a pound. The chest freezer pictured can easily be bought for under 300. When u finish the beef you defrost the freezer and then buy your yearly meat again. It's pretty comfy and based and drops your monthly food bill dramatically.

>>16043918
Seriously? it's literally impossible for you to contact a farmer?
What country do you live in? Because even when I lived in a gigantic city it was possible for me to contact a farmer. They aren't massive cooperation's so they will be very easy to get a hold of.

Also I agree industrial chicken is disgusting. Once you raise your own birds for eggs and meat you realize you have eaten cardboard. It's not even necessarily pumped full of water (that is more common with pork and they will advertise that on the package). Chicken is bland because the birds do not move much their whole lives, get very little vitamin D due to being raised indoors, and only eat feed and not forage and insects.

You can get a few years worth of meat for significantly less than a years worth of your grocery bill buying a cow share.

Poultry should be a specialty meat imo, and we should mainly be eating excess males from laying flocks.

As for produce. You gotta learn how to grow it and preserve it yourself. That is kind of a feat.

>>16029477
Actually getting a quarter cow is way less of a hassle. You contact a farmer and a processor and figure out how you want it broken down, if you're lazy you can just have the processing facility break it down by their own preference. Then you pick up the animal and that's all you need to do for the year. A chest freezer that will comfortably fit 1/4 cow is between 200 and 300 dollars and is more energy efficient than a fridge/freezer. If you eat a fuckload of meat everyday then get a whole cow. It will still be a once a year purchase, though probably longer than once a year unless the only thing you eat is the beef. Also it will be easier to make sure the cow lived a better life and has a better diet. Cheap chicken is absolutely disgusting. After raising my own birds I realized I have been eating what is essentially cardboard "proteins"
pumped with water and corn.

Even factory farmed beef gets some grass in it's lifetime before its rumen is trained to fatten up on grains.

>>15857937
cope, pod person.