Buying meat in bulk

[Drewthetexan]

Anyone ever done this?

I'm thinking about trying out http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com. I'm not so keen on ordering meat over the internet; I like to see what I'm buying. The prices seem reasonable, though not the best I've seen, shipping is cheap ($0.35/lb for a 65lb order to Dallas), but what I really want is quality, lean, nothing-unnatural-about-it meat.

Any other ideas?

[Keith B]

Anyone ever done this?

I'm thinking about trying out http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com. I'm not so keen on ordering meat over the internet; I like to see what I'm buying. The prices seem reasonable, though not the best I've seen, shipping is cheap ($0.35/lb for a 65lb order to Dallas), but what I really want is quality, lean, nothing-unnatural-about-it meat.

Any other ideas?

My personal opinion is to find a good butcher shop locally, or even grocery store and talk to the head butcher. Many times they will sell a quarter or half side of beef for close to or the same price, and probably get a lot better quality of meat than mail order. Plano has a couple of good ones; Ye Olde Butcher Shop in downtown and Hersch's Meats on Parker just west of 75.

[7075-T7]

They've convinced me to try it. I mean, the cows and chickens looked so happy in the pictures.

[A-R]

what I really want is quality, lean, nothing-unnatural-about-it meat.

Any other ideas?

Go deer hunting.

[Crossfire]

We drive all the way up to Muenster to buy our meat from Fischers Grocery. They grow their own feed, raise their own animals, and process onsite. I have never had a complaint about anything I bought there.

They make more different kinds of sausage and smoked cheeses than you can imagine. And, besides that, I don't know anywhere else that you can get schnitzel. (Tenderized pork cutlets for those of you not up on your German delicacies!)

And then there is the strudel... oh dear, now you got me started...

[mrvmax]

I buy half a calf every year from a rancher in Bellville. The beef is grain fed with no hormones. I get it cut the way I want as lean as I want, been doing this for the last couple of years.