Steak is $10/lb???

[TwixVoy]

I decided I was going to treat my self tonight and get a small steak at the grocery store. The cheapest steak I could find was $10 for ONE POUND! I wasn't shopping at Randalls or Kroger either. (grocery stores I consider to be expensive... I shop at smaller cheaper ones)

The last time I bought a steak was (to the best of my memory) around a year ago. It was at the same store. I was able to get them for two or three dollars a pound. That's more than a three times increase in price in a years time!

I am sorry for being ignorant of just how high food prices have gone. I am sure I am going to get a lot of "You just figured this out?" responses, but my god talk about crazy food prices!

[WCGreen]

1. We have been paying about 12 bucks a pound for Strip ad Rib Eye

18-20 bucks for tenderloin here in Cleveland.

Buy at COSTCO and freeze.

[scheming daemons]

2. What do cows eat? Grain..... what are we stupidly using our grain for? Ethanol....

The midwest Ethanol lobby has created a horrible situation for the planet.


We should NEVER be using food to create fuel.


Corn-based ethanol is ethically wrong.

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. I just paid $2.99/lb for top sirloin

Unless you're getting tenderloin or some variant thereof, I don't think it's even close to $10/lb.

[TwixVoy]

6. I just checked the label in my fridge

the label says chuck steak 9.87/lb.

I am actually going to eat it tomorrow and it will be my only meal. I can't justify spending money like that combined with anything else on a single day.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. WHAT

What state do you live in? I wouldn't expect it to be that high even in Hawaii..

That better be some gold plated kobe chuck steak.

[TahitiNut]

8. Yup. I almost never pay more than $5/lb ... and then it's at CostCo for NY Strip for about $8/lb.

Which is one helluva lot less than the supermarkets. :shrug:

[robinlynne]

4. What is steak?

[TwixVoy]

7. A slice of meat

apparently a very expensive slice these days.

[woo me with science]

5. Cesar dog food costs a little over a dollar for THREE ounces.

Things are out of hand.

[Muttocracy]

25. I don't even know if that's meat - mostly water

If that's the little-dog food I'm thinking of, it's mostly water, meat, and some who-knows-what food products. Which makes that price even worse.

I'm glad my big dogs can eat dry at <$1 a pound; I can always add the water. I may be pulling out a bowl of it myself soon.

(Edit to say I do buy my dogs one of the best brands, it's just cheap because I buy it 40 pounds at a time!)

[John Q. Citizen]

9. Where do you live? Chuck steak isn't anywhere near that here in MT.

[TwixVoy]

12. I am in Texas

and I am surprised these food prices keep going up especially here. For one thing the wages are so depressed in this state to begin with.

A tiny yoplait yogurt is almost a dollar. A freaking can of condensed campbells soup is almost $2. I have not had condensed soup or yogurt for the past several months just because I can't justify to my self those prices.... and those are wal-mart prices. It's even more expensive at places like kroger and randalls.

[sandnsea]

10. Sirloin was on sale for $4.99 lb

The good steaks are very expensive, but we usually buy sirloin or a breakfast steak because we're not supposed to eat the fat anyway. But, yeah, food prices are just crazy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Not your imagination. Food, by my estimation, has gone up

over 120% in the last year... and I try to shop at base... or the other day at Cosco... where I actually found Filet Mignon for an extremely good price, for mignon that is. So we treated ourselves. We had two today... for lunch, and we'll have the other pieces next week

Oh and it was 9.98 pound

[MercutioATC]

14. Depending on the definition of "steak", it's been above $12/lb for years.

Strip steaks and Delmonicos have been above $12/lb here since Bush's first term.

I realize that we pay more than if we lived in cattle country, but a good steak has always cost some money.

[AndyTiedye]

15. But the OP Lives in Texas. That IS Cattle Country, Isn't It?

Oddly, the stores around here (n Cal) have had boneless chicken breast on sale for $1.99/# pretty regularly of late.
Been putting a bunch of it in the freezer.

[MercutioATC]

16. $1.99 would almost make it worth it for me to buy a new freezer to store it.

Oh, how I wish we had a "Preparedness" forum here at DU. As far as I know, we have enough votes and the admins just have to make the final decision.

We could save sooo many people sooo much money and effort...

[TreasonousBastard]

17. If that's the cheapest-- you're screwed. Them's Alaska...

winter prices.

There's some kinda round roast on sale at Waldbaum's for 1.59 a pound and various cuts of London broil have been going for under two bucks around here.

Now, you want a T-bone or sirloin, NY strip... you're gonna pay more, at least double, but the only meat I see as high as 10 bucks are loin lamb chops. I have now idea who buys those tiny loin lamb chops at that price, but they're always in the meat counter.

[AndyTiedye]

19. Chuck is $3.99/lb on safeway.com

for $10/lb you can get Porterhouse.

[TreasonousBastard]

21. Feh! Gotta watch the fats now, so chuck is out, but...

it's now getting up there in price, which I don't understand. It used to be the cheap beef, and even a couple of weeks ago it was well under 3 bucks a pound.

[Breeze54]

22. Cheaper to buy a roast and have a portion ground up for burgers and use the rest for stew & a roast.

;)

[mahina]

18. The big uncut top sirloin at Costco is the best steak we can buy anywhere,

much better than the cut steaks they sell, more flavorful, tender, and less fatty. It's $2.50 a pound. I get one big pack, cut off a roast for our house to freeze, a roast for my mom or brother, and either barbeque steaks or cook a roast for us. We have meat for two weeks for two families for 35.
I know we shouldn't eat meat, but we do, and this way it's cheaper and healthier. My nutritionist hipped me to top sirloin- it has less fat than the tofu I was choking down.

But yeah, prices are definitely through the roof. I don't even look at meat in the grocery store any more.

[Breeze54]

20. Chickens are high now too..... I had steak tips a month ago but

only because my local (high end) grocery store has a tri-monthly (?) sale of 5 packages of meat for $20.00.

You can buy steaks, chops, whole chickens, steak tips, etc. 5 pkgs for $20 and we scarfed on it! :P

I still have 4 chickens from over a month ago, frozen in my freezer. ;)

[pansypoo53219]

23. but there's no inflation

so stop saying it.

because why would you consider gas or food to calculate inflation?

[Muttocracy]

26. funny how that works. nt

[Trajan]

24. Sales in the NW ...

Rib Eye - BEST price = 4.99 lb. (Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer(Kroger))

Boneless Chicken Breasts = 1.79 lb. (same)

I usually shop at a discount grocery (Employee owned WINCO), but their meat prices in good cuts is rarely on sale.

EDIT: Wow .. I just checked this weeks ads, and NO premium steaks on sale .... 'Petite' sirloins @ 2.99 is the best beef price .... T Bone is up to $9 LB .... Sheesh ...

I become VERY veggie when this happens ....