Your Biggest Food Purchase?

Nutrition
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Now, I usually shop seasonal, meaning I buy whatever meat is the most reasonably priced for whatever season.

In the summer shrimp is good, around 20 Norwegian Kroner (3-4$, depending)for 1 kg or pork chops, which are around the same, or chicken thighs, which are also around 20 KR for 1 kg. Offseason these pruducts are easilly 4x that price.

Now, with thanksgiving, christmas and new year’s coming up, turkey is real, real cheap. 19 kr (3-4$) pr KG, which is a big deal, considering chicken breast costs anywhere from 80 (15$) to 180(35$) kr pr kg.

Usually I buy around 10 kg of meat at the time, or 20 when buying chicken or shrimp.

Today I bought 15 birds,all they had at the store. They each weigh anywhere from 5-7 kg, meaning I’ve bought 90 kg of bird. My freezer is full.

The price? 1800 kr, or 230$.

What’s your biggest purchase?

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Rack of Brontosaurus Ribs. The woman set them on my open car window and wouldn’t ya know it, my whole car toppled over.

S

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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
Rack of Brontosaurus Ribs. The woman set them on my open car window and wouldn’t ya know it, my whole car toppled over.

S
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I don’t know how many times this happened to me. I always end up getting locked out of the house that night too.

Aldi’s is the cheapest place in the world to buy food, you have to deposit a quarter just to use the cart, but it’s way cheaper than anywhere else.

EDIT: Forgot to finish the story, spent $130 and filled up an empty fridge, empty freezer and compared the bill to normal prices and saved about $90

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There’s a halal butcher shop in my area that sells real good quality chicken breast for a steal. 2 40lbs boxes for $160.

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A gingerbread house.

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Eighth of grass-fed beef for $5/pound plus all the organ meat I want for $2/lb. Grand total: $248 of deliciousness.

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Seriously though,… I usually pick up several of those 10 lb bags of chicken breasts at BJs every month. About $24 each, so a pretty darn good deal.

S

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Hehe, reading the first posts I was sure this thread was going west, fast :smiley:

I’d buy more breasts for sure if they weren’t 5-10 x the price of thighs.

Just about the only thing that sucks about the food over here is the inability to get beef below 30$ a kg.

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[quote]Bigblockin590 wrote:
There’s a halal butcher shop in my area that sells real good quality chicken breast for a steal. 2 40lbs boxes for $160. [/quote]

Yeah those halal guys got some good deals…

I get a kilo of ground beef for 5 euro, a kilo of - delicious - turkey shoarma (marinated and all that) for 6.50 euro, and sirloin steak at 8.50 euro/kilo.

( 1 euro = $1.505 today apparently, and a kilo is 2.2 pounds… )

I guess they have low costs for personnel/transport/keeping stock…

EDIT: euro symbols came out all wrong : )