Result from last nights hunt.
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
70-100 excluding supps. It could easily be higher but I supply my own pork, venison(deer meat), fish, and elk. Sometimes beef. Ill splurge and buy beef thats local as well. Ill never buy beef(or most meat) from Wal-Mart again.[/quote]
we need to be nieghbors
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
Maybe this picture will work. Weighed about 250lb[/quote]
I love boar sausage. Trying to talk a buddy of mine into harvesting some from his land.
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
Disclaimer: I’m not a dood, so I don’t have ya’lls caloric requirements.
Used to spent about $100 a week on food (quality food, hence the cost).
I currently spend about $20 every week now; I’ve taken to acquiring my meat live and butchering it myself. Major cost saver + higher-quality meat + visceral thrill and satisfaction of doing it myself.
I bought a live mini-angus off Craigslist and butchered it in my parents’ garage. Worked out to about $0.97 a pound. Got a 100-ish lb pig from an Amish guy for $50, did that in myself also. Add in the two deer I caught this past hunting season and the fish from my fishing hobby (sure to pick up again once the blasted coldness goes away), and, well… As you can imagine, I have a LOT of jerky in my food cellar.[/quote]
I feel like such a fag now. So how exactly do you go about killing these things? Do you just bash their brains in with a sledgehammer or slit their fucking throat? And what about your neighbors? Do they flip out at the sound of an animal getting killed in your garage? Do you clean, gut and butcher the animal yourself too, or do you take the carcass somewhere to have all that done?
I’m curious because last summer I got a Boer goat for free but I had to get rid of it because I didn’t realize the fuckers get up to 250 lbs. But they’re great for meat so I might get a full-grown one for the meat. I’m going to do the same with chickens.
I live in CA so things are probably more expensive, but I spend about $750 per month on food. I also lean towards organic and free range/grass fed products.
my grocery bill every week
1 gallon milk- 2.99
4 pounds beef- 12.00
1 bag of chicken- 8.00
6 bags frozen veggies- 12.00
1 frozen pizza- 5.00
1 doz eggs- 2.99
rice- 3.99
chili- 4.99
yup. That’s pretty much it. Occasionally some peanut butter.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
Disclaimer: I’m not a dood, so I don’t have ya’lls caloric requirements.
Used to spent about $100 a week on food (quality food, hence the cost).
I currently spend about $20 every week now; I’ve taken to acquiring my meat live and butchering it myself. Major cost saver + higher-quality meat + visceral thrill and satisfaction of doing it myself.
I bought a live mini-angus off Craigslist and butchered it in my parents’ garage. Worked out to about $0.97 a pound. Got a 100-ish lb pig from an Amish guy for $50, did that in myself also. Add in the two deer I caught this past hunting season and the fish from my fishing hobby (sure to pick up again once the blasted coldness goes away), and, well… As you can imagine, I have a LOT of jerky in my food cellar.[/quote]
I feel like such a fag now. So how exactly do you go about killing these things? Do you just bash their brains in with a sledgehammer or slit their fucking throat? And what about your neighbors? Do they flip out at the sound of an animal getting killed in your garage? Do you clean, gut and butcher the animal yourself too, or do you take the carcass somewhere to have all that done?
I’m curious because last summer I got a Boer goat for free but I had to get rid of it because I didn’t realize the fuckers get up to 250 lbs. But they’re great for meat so I might get a full-grown one for the meat. I’m going to do the same with chickens.[/quote]
I want to know too…
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
70-100 excluding supps. It could easily be higher but I supply my own pork, venison(deer meat), fish, and elk. Sometimes beef. Ill splurge and buy beef thats local as well. Ill never buy beef(or most meat) from Wal-Mart again.[/quote]
we need to be nieghbors[/quote]
Ha. Where do you live anyway?
$5 a day on milk and cookies(chewy chips ahoy) - 3080 calories.
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
Maybe this picture will work. Weighed about 250lb[/quote]
I love boar sausage. Trying to talk a buddy of mine into harvesting some from his land.[/quote]
Yes pork sausage can be delicious. I generally mix mine with 50/50 venison or beef to make it alil healthier as well as up the taste.
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
Disclaimer: I’m not a dood, so I don’t have ya’lls caloric requirements.
Used to spent about $100 a week on food (quality food, hence the cost).
I currently spend about $20 every week now; I’ve taken to acquiring my meat live and butchering it myself. Major cost saver + higher-quality meat + visceral thrill and satisfaction of doing it myself.
I bought a live mini-angus off Craigslist and butchered it in my parents’ garage. Worked out to about $0.97 a pound. Got a 100-ish lb pig from an Amish guy for $50, did that in myself also. Add in the two deer I caught this past hunting season and the fish from my fishing hobby (sure to pick up again once the blasted coldness goes away), and, well… As you can imagine, I have a LOT of jerky in my food cellar.[/quote]
You use a kill stick?
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
[quote]Tex Ag wrote:
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
70-100 excluding supps. It could easily be higher but I supply my own pork, venison(deer meat), fish, and elk. Sometimes beef. Ill splurge and buy beef thats local as well. Ill never buy beef(or most meat) from Wal-Mart again.[/quote]
we need to be nieghbors[/quote]
Ha. Where do you live anyway?[/quote]
Up in DamnYankeeLand. Would love to get back to Texas. Economy is not helping.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
Disclaimer: I’m not a dood, so I don’t have ya’lls caloric requirements.
Used to spent about $100 a week on food (quality food, hence the cost).
I currently spend about $20 every week now; I’ve taken to acquiring my meat live and butchering it myself. Major cost saver + higher-quality meat + visceral thrill and satisfaction of doing it myself.
I bought a live mini-angus off Craigslist and butchered it in my parents’ garage. Worked out to about $0.97 a pound. Got a 100-ish lb pig from an Amish guy for $50, did that in myself also. Add in the two deer I caught this past hunting season and the fish from my fishing hobby (sure to pick up again once the blasted coldness goes away), and, well… As you can imagine, I have a LOT of jerky in my food cellar.[/quote]
Sexiest visual Ive ever gotten on this site.
You all covered in blood with a big assmachete…and dead animals laying at your feet…
Oh man, I’m having a moment.[/quote]
Google didn’t come through for me, so… what’s an assmachete? Is it what I think it is?
[quote]DarkNinjaa wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Squiggles wrote:
Disclaimer: I’m not a dood, so I don’t have ya’lls caloric requirements.
Used to spent about $100 a week on food (quality food, hence the cost).
I currently spend about $20 every week now; I’ve taken to acquiring my meat live and butchering it myself. Major cost saver + higher-quality meat + visceral thrill and satisfaction of doing it myself.
I bought a live mini-angus off Craigslist and butchered it in my parents’ garage. Worked out to about $0.97 a pound. Got a 100-ish lb pig from an Amish guy for $50, did that in myself also. Add in the two deer I caught this past hunting season and the fish from my fishing hobby (sure to pick up again once the blasted coldness goes away), and, well… As you can imagine, I have a LOT of jerky in my food cellar.[/quote]
I feel like such a fag now. So how exactly do you go about killing these things? Do you just bash their brains in with a sledgehammer or slit their fucking throat? And what about your neighbors? Do they flip out at the sound of an animal getting killed in your garage? Do you clean, gut and butcher the animal yourself too, or do you take the carcass somewhere to have all that done?
I’m curious because last summer I got a Boer goat for free but I had to get rid of it because I didn’t realize the fuckers get up to 250 lbs. But they’re great for meat so I might get a full-grown one for the meat. I’m going to do the same with chickens.[/quote]
I want to know too…
[/quote]
you asked.
With goats, I usually put a string around their neck and slit their throat.
Calves 4 pound hammer to the head, and slit their throat. I’ve never killed a larger beef. I’d probably just use the pig method.
For Domestic Pigs draw an imaginary X between the eyes and ears and shoot them with a .22cal. Then slit their throat.
chickens thumb behind the back of the neck and pull on the feet until cervical dislocation is achieved. Pull too hard, and you’ll have a headless chicken…
[quote]AccipiterQ wrote:
Where the hell do you people live? When I bulk on 5000 calories per day cleanly I still only spend about 60/week. When I cut/maintenance cycle I’m at about 45. [/quote]
OK so here’s how it’s spent in NJ.
This is every 2 weeks:
From Costco:
Over 4 lbs of ribeye: $32
36 eggs: $4
3 lbs organic ground beef $12
6 qts Skim plus: $13
28 containers of greek yogurt:$25
2-4 lbs chicken breasts: $6-$12
8 or 10 pack of tuna: $10
2 cases of water: $8
That alone is $110 for 2 weeks and I didn’t even get into fruits/veggies, condiments,cold cuts, and dining out.
Without dining out, I spend about $100-$125 a week just for me.
LOL @ the women spending more money a week on food than the men.
my GF and I spend less then 100 a month for groceries like the veggies, pasta, frozen, milk, cheese and can goods + cleaning supplies.
we have a 7 ft^3 deep freezer and catch chicken / beef / pork when its on deep sale and can get a pound of beef for $1.5, caught chicken (bone in) for 99 cents, and pork tenderloin for 1.25… filled the freezer…
www.southernsaver.com we spend 20 minutes a week cutting coupons and wait for things to go on sale and stock up like crazy.
last week we got 200 in groceries and a 50 dollar gas card and paid 52 bucks…
[quote]farmerson12 wrote:
Maybe this picture will work. Weighed about 250lb[/quote]
This guy has got the right idea, I live in London UK, and thought he was joking when I started reading about him ‘butchering his own food’
Usually in abouts 150 bucks a week, but that doesn’t include my freezer filling trips to costco which run a couple hundred bucks every couple months. I ding a couple deer each season, but they don’t last long. Got a couple laying hens for my eggs, so I don’t buy those. When I’m bulking I spend another 30 bucks a week on milk. Probably clear 200 dollars a week all averaged out.