Beef Cost is Unreal!

[mneeley490]

Two things you should get along with a Costco membership: a chest freezer and a vacuum pack food saver.

I have both, but didn't get either at Costco. Still looking for a new vac, though. The one I currently have won't automatically seal after vacuuming anymore, and I have to hold down the lid with one hand, and flip the switch with the other. Looking at a couple of Inkbirds on Amazon.

 

[sandyut]

Two things you should get along with a Costco membership: a chest freezer and a vacuum pack food saver.

We (2 oldies) usually buy huge hunks of prime beef and cut our own steaks, then vac bag them in "meals for 2", tag them, and into the chest freezer they go. We do the same with pork or prime beef tenderloin. Buy a whole one, then cut, bag, tag, and freeze.

Similar with Costco's 2-pack of St. Louis style ribs. Cook them both, eat off the bone for 1 or 2 meals, debone the rest of the meat, vac bag it into "meals for 2" packages, and into the freezer.

We just had a smoked rib dinner recently from ribs cooked 7 months ago. Two dinner packs left before we need to buy another 2-pack from Costco.

Same here, two of us, but we stock up, vacuum up, freeze it up. Denver suberbs are a solid 45 minute drive, so it nice to be self sufficient. If winter comes this year, Im sure we will get snowed in with a power outage at some point. Back up generator and Starlink make it feel like nothing is falling apart.