I am appalled that I had to pay $26+ for 8 pounds of ground beef last week for a recipe. Had I not paid for the bulk packaging, it would have been $40+, noting the price/lb on the other packages.
Fyi, FReepers...there is a practice of incorporating water into meats these days. On chicken packaging you will note “15% added real chicken broth”. I find no such labeling on ground beef, but the amount of water resulting in the pan during cooking amounted to >20% of the net weight (that was Walmart, btw, but NOT Walmart brand).
My recent experience: Kroger/Fred Meyer does not incorporate additional water into their ground beef in bulk packaging. Next time I make the extra trip to the local butcher.
I would not be surprised that steaks might be similarly affected in some chain stores, since they’re doing it with chicken. I’ve noticed the additional water even in the brand names from Costco.
I wish there were somewhere to post this to track the dishonest grocer chains...
The $26.00 comes to $3.25 per pound, how much percentage was the ground beef fat free? 70%, 80% or 90% percent which I think is the leanest. (It might be 95%) I do remember still though when you could get a pound of ground beef for a quarter and paid a little over $25.00 for four large paper bags of groceries