Steak is $10/lb???

I decided I was going to treat my self tonight and get a small steak at the grocery store. The cheapest steak I could find was $10 for ONE POUND! I wasn't shopping at Randalls or Kroger either. (grocery stores I consider to be expensive... I shop at smaller cheaper ones)

The last time I bought a steak was (to the best of my memory) around a year ago. It was at the same store. I was able to get them for two or three dollars a pound. That's more than a three times increase in price in a years time!

I am sorry for being ignorant of just how high food prices have gone. I am sure I am going to get a lot of "You just figured this out?" responses, but my god talk about crazy food prices!

18-20 bucks for tenderloin here in Cleveland.

Buy at COSTCO and freeze.

The midwest Ethanol lobby has created a horrible situation for the planet.


We should NEVER be using food to create fuel.


Corn-based ethanol is ethically wrong.

Unless you're getting tenderloin or some variant thereof, I don't think it's even close to $10/lb.

the label says chuck steak 9.87/lb.

I am actually going to eat it tomorrow and it will be my only meal. I can't justify spending money like that combined with anything else on a single day.

What state do you live in? I wouldn't expect it to be that high even in Hawaii..

That better be some gold plated kobe chuck steak.

Which is one helluva lot less than the supermarkets. :shrug:

apparently a very expensive slice these days.

Things are out of hand.

If that's the little-dog food I'm thinking of, it's mostly water, meat, and some who-knows-what food products. Which makes that price even worse.

I'm glad my big dogs can eat dry at <$1 a pound; I can always add the water. I may be pulling out a bowl of it myself soon.

(Edit to say I do buy my dogs one of the best brands, it's just cheap because I buy it 40 pounds at a time!)

and I am surprised these food prices keep going up especially here. For one thing the wages are so depressed in this state to begin with.

A tiny yoplait yogurt is almost a dollar. A freaking can of condensed campbells soup is almost $2. I have not had condensed soup or yogurt for the past several months just because I can't justify to my self those prices.... and those are wal-mart prices. It's even more expensive at places like kroger and randalls.

The good steaks are very expensive, but we usually buy sirloin or a breakfast steak because we're not supposed to eat the fat anyway. But, yeah, food prices are just crazy.

over 120% in the last year... and I try to shop at base... or the other day at Cosco... where I actually found Filet Mignon for an extremely good price, for mignon that is. So we treated ourselves. We had two today... for lunch, and we'll have the other pieces next week

Oh and it was 9.98 pound

Strip steaks and Delmonicos have been above $12/lb here since Bush's first term.

I realize that we pay more than if we lived in cattle country, but a good steak has always cost some money.

Oddly, the stores around here (n Cal) have had boneless chicken breast on sale for $1.99/# pretty regularly of late.
Been putting a bunch of it in the freezer.

Oh, how I wish we had a "Preparedness" forum here at DU. As far as I know, we have enough votes and the admins just have to make the final decision.

We could save sooo many people sooo much money and effort...

winter prices.

There's some kinda round roast on sale at Waldbaum's for 1.59 a pound and various cuts of London broil have been going for under two bucks around here.

Now, you want a T-bone or sirloin, NY strip... you're gonna pay more, at least double, but the only meat I see as high as 10 bucks are loin lamb chops. I have now idea who buys those tiny loin lamb chops at that price, but they're always in the meat counter.

for $10/lb you can get Porterhouse.

it's now getting up there in price, which I don't understand. It used to be the cheap beef, and even a couple of weeks ago it was well under 3 bucks a pound.

;)

much better than the cut steaks they sell, more flavorful, tender, and less fatty. It's $2.50 a pound. I get one big pack, cut off a roast for our house to freeze, a roast for my mom or brother, and either barbeque steaks or cook a roast for us. We have meat for two weeks for two families for 35.
I know we shouldn't eat meat, but we do, and this way it's cheaper and healthier. My nutritionist hipped me to top sirloin- it has less fat than the tofu I was choking down.

But yeah, prices are definitely through the roof. I don't even look at meat in the grocery store any more.

only because my local (high end) grocery store has a tri-monthly (?) sale of 5 packages of meat for $20.00.

You can buy steaks, chops, whole chickens, steak tips, etc. 5 pkgs for $20 and we scarfed on it! :P

I still have 4 chickens from over a month ago, frozen in my freezer. ;)

so stop saying it.

because why would you consider gas or food to calculate inflation?

Rib Eye - BEST price = 4.99 lb. (Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer(Kroger))

Boneless Chicken Breasts = 1.79 lb. (same)

I usually shop at a discount grocery (Employee owned WINCO), but their meat prices in good cuts is rarely on sale.

EDIT: Wow .. I just checked this weeks ads, and NO premium steaks on sale .... 'Petite' sirloins @ 2.99 is the best beef price .... T Bone is up to $9 LB .... Sheesh ...

I become VERY veggie when this happens ....