Want to save money on meat, purchase direct from the farmer. With the price increases in the grocery stores it is becoming cheaper to buy local.
Google Buy a cow with your home city name.
You can buy chickens at the tractor store. It takes about four hens to produce a dozen eggs a week. You can also buy eggs from a local egg source; you will see them advertised on the side of the road. I have to small home operations near me.
Buy local and learn how to grow your own food.
I remember my parents splitting a side of beef with another family
in the late 1960s when I was three.
A local butcher had a deal where you could buy a side of beef,
and he would butcher and wrap it any way you wanted, and he
would store it in his meat locker/freezer for you for up to a year, I think.
You could drop by anytime and pick up whatever you needed.
We and the Walker family ate some GOOD beef that year.
It had to be good if I still remember it from when I was three.
and...
"...grow your own food..."
You just reminded me of today's chore - I've got to chop down
my tomato and pepper plants. I've harvested all of the tomatoes
and peppers - and the frost has now mortally wounded
the plants. Time for them to go.