So, I'm trying to plan my menu for next year, using only 4 pounds of red meat.
I mean, how do I do that? Now, I don't eat a lot of red meat, anyhow, but with only four pounds to work with, and 52 weeks in the year, it's going to be hard to stretch it out. I don't know how I'm going to stretch out just one pound to last for thirteen weeks.
Maybe those paper-thin frozen hamberder patties? A 1-oz burger, once a week, for 10 weeks, with a double cheeseberder per week on the menu for for three weeks? That would work.
Or, maybe I could make meatballs from my 13-week, one-pound supply. Small meatballs. Tiny meatballs. Put one on a toasted breadstick slice, with a bit of tomato paste and some parmesan cheese. That sounds filling.
Either that or just throw caution to the wind and buy a 4-pound chuck roast and make pot roast for New Years Day, and be done with it altogether.
Any other recipe ideas to make four pounds of beef last for a year?
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You make beer with it!!
I truly enjoy delicious homemade "hamburgers" a couple times a week.
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12 dinners, one per month. 
But I recommend grilled or other simple handling to maximize beef flavor and then thin sliced on and alongside other good stuff.
Seriously, nonsense as this little big lie is, with the climate crisis leading to serious price inflation for beef, we've already had to discover, to our happy surprise, that 1/3 pound is a satisfying serving, every bite enjoyed, complementing and complemented by other good things on the plate.
It's the once a month thing, though, instead of 2 or 3 times now.
In our case I suppose that could be eked out courtesy of the herd of 7 deer we left last fall had become a herd of 11 cavorting in our little pasture the other evening. I'm not that crazy about venison, though. Obviously.
