To all the meat eaters , how do you afford to eat it than a couple of times a week?

[laundry_queen]

106. I can't afford it.

We mostly only buy ground beef on sale, or eat chicken (again, on sale). Sometimes we'll buy pork tenderloin and cut it up so everyone has a very small piece. Even chicken we only have once a week because to buy enough chicken that everyone feels like they got enough ends up costing $12-15.

This summer I finally got a BBQ set up (my house happened to have a gas hook up and my brother gave me his old bbq) and I thought we would celebrate with steaks. o-m-f-g. way too expensive. I'll probably be a once a year thing- if that.

As a single parent, we now eat a lot of pasta and vegetable based soups. Meat and dairy prices have increased easily by 50% where I am just in the last 4-5 years. I remember hearing my mom talk about how poor they were when I was little - and they were - but we ate meat every single night and steaks at least once a week. I definitely cannot afford that for my kids. Even the cheapest stuff is too expensive.