A quarter or half a cow or pig may be too much meat for you or too expensive. Enter 25 lb ish packages of beef or pork or a (milk) crate of meat. For ~ $250 we can put together about 25 lb of beef. OR for ~ $200-220 we can put together about 25 lb of pork.
Currently a crate of beef would include:
- 1 Chuck roast
- 1 Shaved steak pkg
- 1 Stew meat pkg
- 1 rib steak – 2 steaks/pkg
- Rump roast or sirloin tip roast
- Chuck steak or sirloin steak – 1 steak/pkg
- Meaty shank soup bone or short ribs
- T-bone or Porterhouse steak – 2 steaks/pkg
- 8 tubes of ground beef, ~1 lb. each
A crate of pork would include:
- 2 roasts – butt, loin or shoulder
- 3 sausages ~1 lb. each – breakfast, hot or sweet Italian
- 2 pkg smoked or unsmoked pork chops
- 2 pkg bacon or Canadian bacon
- 2 smoked ham slices
- 2 tubes of ground pork, ~1 lb. each
- 1 unsmoked or smoked ham roasts