hamburger today cost 17.99 for 3 lbs

[demtenjeep]

that is absolutely ridiculous

[Tipperary]

1. Holy cow!

What kind of hamburger are you buying?!

I buy grass fed, and that can be expensive, but the other ground beef are nowhere near that price.

[demtenjeep]

5. this was Dillons 80/20

it used to run @11.00

[Tipperary]

21. I really eat very little meat, but buy it for friends who visit.

That sounds crazy! Glad I do not eat much meat, but that has to be a pain if it’s a staple for you. It seems everything is going up lately.

[demtenjeep]

40. yes it is

you can bet we don't get that much of cost of living raise

[fierywoman]

10. Grass fed and finished can be around $6-7/# outside of Seattle.

[Drahthaardogs]

25. Grass fed beef is the biggest scam in the history of beef

Paying premium for a non-finished beef is ludicrous

[Blue_true]

31. Mind expanding your post? I don't understand why?

Don't people prefer grass fed over finished because grass fed is typically leaner (which for beef is not always the best thing, IMO)?

[Drahthaardogs]

35. A beef is "finished" on corn the last 100 days before slaughter

It is what puts on marbeling and white fat. It is done in a feed lot and is expensive.

Just taking a beef right off the prairie is cheaper and easier. There is no reason for it to be more expensive.

[dem4decades]

2. i'm going to eat lobster, it's cheaper.

[a kennedy]

9. Mmmmmmmmmm crab as well.

[dem4decades]

24. it's my birthday, i bought king crab, 24.99 a pound,

steak, 12.99. lobster? 6.99. no brainer except my wife is deathly allergic.

[Tipperary]

19. Ha!

Great idea!

[obamanut2012]

38. You can get three pounds of lobster meat for $18???

[alittlelark]

3. Glad I'm a borderline vegetarian !!

[Blue_true]

32. I eat meat, but my intake is around 4-5 ounces per day. nt

[DFW]

4. That sounds like a lot

We haven't bought hamburger meat in over 35 years, so I wouldn't know.

[obamanut2012]

39. It isn't

Even ground chuck 80/20 at someplace like Aldi is $4/lb.

[panader0]

6. I checked out the meat section at my supermarket today.

The average chuck roast was 16 bucks. I'll be cutting way back on my meat intake.
Steak--forget it. And it's not just meat.

[demmiblue]

7. Beans are super cheap, and far more nutritious. n/t

[maxsolomon]

8. $6/lb. isn't crazy where I live.

What quality are we talking?

[demtenjeep]

11. 80/20

and it used to be 11.00

[maxsolomon]

12. welp, meat processing has been problematic

and the supply is constricted.

try some of that beyond beef substitute, it's pretty good!

[MLAA]

13. Time to go vegan 🙂

[Quemado]

17. My time to go vegan was three years ago.

Going vegan enabled me to lose 60 lbs. I have no regrets.

[MLAA]

18. Congrats!!!!

I feel great as well 10 years vegetarian and 7 vegan. Healthy and happy and nobody dies for my meals. Although, I could eat a little healthier, yesterday I made stroganoff with Beyond Meat and vegan sour cream 😬

[Wellstone ruled]

14. JBS(Swift/Western Beef)

gotcha. They have used the first ten days of March as a vehicle to jack the crap out of prices without increasing prices paid for Live weight animals.

But,that is okay,Immigrants are being forced back into the Death Buildings called Slaughterhouses. Got to fill those Export Orders in order to make the Orange Anus look good.

[keithbvadu2]

28. "Human capital" is the GOP term for forced labor.

"Human capital" is the GOP term for forced labor.

[mnhtnbb]

15. I paid $5.99/lb for the 93% lean

on Tuesday, which is close to what I have been paying--unless it was on special--for a long time.

[greenjar_01]

30. Yeah, pretty much. I pay $7.50/lb for organic

[Hamer555]

16. Prices where I'm at have have more than doubled....

I have read in recent days where prices are expected to start falling back to normal, but they haven't dropped a penny yet.

[SharonClark]

20. Last Friday I bought ground chuck (90/10) for $5.49#

Ground sirloin was $5.99#. I rarely buy beef but that was a high for me.

[Freethinker65]

22. I paid $4.99/lb for ground round last week in the Chicago burbs.

Chicken has been really cheap here. Prices have started to to settle down a bit.

[Baclava]

23. U need a new place to shop, I just got 3lbs for $6.50, and 4 1/2 lbs of chicken thighs for $3.39

[JesterCS]

26. We get it from a local slaughter house @ 2.99/lb

[malaise]

27. Good thing I don't eat red meat

[shanti]

33. Not even oxtail?

Or goat?

[malaise]

36. Seafood and bird

and lots of chick peas - hahahahaha.
Funny, if I am at a friend's place and all they have is curry goat or oxtail, I'll have a little gravy rather than embarrass them. It's not an obsession just a choice I made back in 1979.

[highplainsdem]

29. I saw it priced higher than that a couple of weeks ago (for 85% and 93%), but the price seems to be

coming down slightly.

[Agschmid]

34. $4.99/lb for 93% in NYC.

[obamanut2012]

37. That's normal price

It's what I always pay, including for grassfed, localish beef. Even "regular" ground beef is $3-4.

It is interesting to me so many people on this thread thinks that's expensive, especially when the price for good hamburger has actually gotten a little cheaper the last couple years..