The price of beef is crazy

[ZEROPILOT]

I was googling a steakhouse nearby for a nice Friday night dinner. One that had good ratings and wasn't a chain restaurant.
What I saw shocked me:
A Tomahawk steak is $180. With no sides.
The Porterhouse was one hundred plus.
We can't talk politics on this forum. But I'm just saying.....I don't think there's a cow shortage.
So, Longhorn it is.
I'm glad I'm not dating anymore!
To me. It looks like $60-$70

 

[jaizei]

I don't think there's a cow shortage.

There is

 

[Blackdog1714]

Nope my buddy raises black Angus and he resuses to sell at the current market price which is often under $2.

 

[jeff kushner]

I LOVE beef....so I try lots of places and I'm kind of current with pricing. There is no shortage.

Currently I order my beef from wildforkfoods.com. We had a USDA Prime standing rib roast at Thanksgiving, today it is the same price. The USDA prime steaks are usually around 15 per lb....same price.

I think what you are seeing is that the cost of Prepared food skyrocketed. As I predicted,"15" doubled prices. We don't pay for their mistakes.

 

[TammyJ]

I don't think I have a "steak"🥩 in this conversation.

 

[wellington]

Prices of everything is ridiculous. I very seldom look at prices. If I need it, I just get it. The only items I will shop around for is wants.
Before COVID I used to get a cart full of groceries for under a hundred bucks. Now half a cart full is over hundred bucks.

 

[Yvonne G]

A few years ago I bought Omaha Steak packages for a few of my family members for Christmas. I paid in the neighborhood of $50 for a quite nice selection. So this year I shopped their catalog again. Even with their Senior discount or other discounts the going price for the packages I liked was upwards of $150. Needless to say, my family is NOT getting Omaha Steaks for Christmas this year.

 

[TammyJ]

I don't think I have a "steak"🥩 in this conversation.

That's correct, Tammy. Go start cooking those chicken necks.

 

[EppsDynasty]

Prices of everything is ridiculous. I very seldom look at prices. If I need it, I just get it. The only items I will shop around for is wants.
Before COVID I used to get a cart full of groceries for under a hundred bucks. Now half a cart full is over hundred bucks.

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF COWS ... just common financial sense. Here in California next year all fast food workers START at $20 an hour, all medical workers START at $25 an hour. Right now a Big Mac Meal is $17, wait till Jan 1 and it will be $20 .. for the small size. In the med field even the janitors at med facility's will be paid $25+ an hour. Whats this going to do to already outrageous Medical bills. I live VERY rural, my local gas station (25 miles away) is at least 75 cents over what you pay in the big towns. Bakersfield CA has the biggest swing of gas prices in the USA. You can pump gas at one station and across the street it's 1 dollar more, no sh!t. Gas prices will fall 20 - 50 cents in town but by me the price will not change ......Huh weird. Tourism. It's 16 miles to get my mail, it's 60+ miles to take my daughter to practice, my cardiac appt. this week was a 220 mile drive. I am barely staying afloat with gas so steak houses are OUT of the realm of possibility for my family.

 

[jaizei]

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--"Cattle herds in the U.S. have been reduced to their 'smallest number in decades' as a result of prolonged drought in key cattle ranching states like Texas and Kansas, Swanson said."



idk i guess when ranchers 'shrink herds' to their 'smallest number in decades' there must be an abundance of cows. totally not a shortage. lol

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Prices of everything is ridiculous. I very seldom look at prices. If I need it, I just get it. The only items I will shop around for is wants.
Before COVID I used to get a cart full of groceries for under a hundred bucks. Now half a cart full is over hundred bucks.

Walmart had and still has boneless skinless chicken breasts for two bucks a pound

 

[wellington]

Walmart had and still has boneless skinless chicken breasts for two bucks a pound

Wow that's cheap. The Walmart by me isn't a full supermarket unfortunately.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Wow that's cheap. The Walmart by me isn't a full supermarket unfortunately.

Even through that whole chicken and chicken wing price hike, they kept it low.
I just hate going to Walmart for ANYTHING

 

[wellington]

Even through that whole chicken and chicken wing price hike, they kept it low.
I just hate going to Walmart for ANYTHING

I do too. But they do have good grocery prices. That's where I have to take my mom when she needs to shop. She's up in Michigan. About once a month I'm up there.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Here's some discounted RUMP ROAST.
Florida style

 

[Len B]

i guess I'm living in the right place right now. Regular hamburger is $1.99 there is no beef shortage in the Beach. Right now chicken thighs and drumsticks, hams and turkeys are $.89 and $.99 a pound.

 

[jeff kushner]

Snatched from the Internet of things;

Original "Home Alone" shopping list was roughly 19 bucks

last year 48 bucks,

this year 72!!

Groceries up 1/3rd in a year, make of it what you will.

I live VERY rural, my local gas station (25 miles away) is at least 75 cents over what you pay in the big towns.

100% opposite of the Baltimore/DC market E. Here, gas is cheaper the further from the cities, always! Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

i guess I'm living in the right place right now

Those are great prices Len, we're looking at 3.99(if we're lucky) to 4.99 for ground sirloin!


A couple weeks ago, Kerry got 40lbs of Chicken breasts for 40 bucks for our freezer at her local meat market.
She had to cut up the breasts and put them in the sucky machine but a buck a pound? She was so excited that she "got the deal"...LOL

 

[Len B]

Snatched from the Internet of things;

Original "Home Alone" shopping list was roughly 19 bucks

last year 48 bucks,

this year 72!!

Groceries up 1/3rd in a year, make of it what you will.




100% opposite of the Baltimore/DC market E. Here, gas is cheaper the further from the cities, always! Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Those are great prices Len, we're looking at 3.99(if we're lucky) to 4.99 for ground sirloin!


A couple weeks ago, Kerry got 40lbs of Chicken breasts for 40 bucks for our freezer at her local meat market.
She had to cut up the breasts and put them in the sucky machine but a buck a pound? She was so excited that she "got the deal"...LOL

This morning I went meat shopping at the 2 grocery stores here in town, to get mostly poultry. I bought 53.2 pounds total. At one the meat averaged $1.16 a pound. And the other it averaged $1.09 without the turkey, with the turkey figured in it drops to $.63 a pound. It was a 20 pound turkey for $7.53. it's thawing in the refrigerator, I'll cook it next weekend and debone and freeze the meat. As long as I can keep the cost within reason I will keep cooking for my dogs. So far so good.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

This morning I went meat shopping at the 2 grocery stores here in town, to get mostly poultry. I bought 53.2 pounds total. At one the meat averaged $1.16 a pound. And the other it averaged $1.09 without the turkey, with the turkey figured in it drops to $.63 a pound. It was a 20 pound turkey for $7.53. it's thawing in the refrigerator, I'll cook it next weekend and debone and freeze the meat. As long as I can keep the cost within reason I will keep cooking for my dogs. So far so good.

Man. That sounds like a fantastic system.