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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Purchasing local meat in bulk
For those of you who purchase meat (beef, chicken, pork) in bulk from a local farmer and then freeze it, I have a few questions...
1.) How much meat do you purchase at a time and how often do you purchase meat? How many people are in your family?
2.) How big is your freezer?
Re: Purchasing local meat in bulk
We bought 100 lbs beef and a side of pork (80 lbs) last November. I expect it to last us through the summer at least. Although we will be doing a lot of entertaining (grilling!) through the warm months...so I might need to supplement with certain favorite cuts.
We are a family of four and I think our freezer is 10 cubic feet. It easily accomodated the pork and beef, and at one point we had a few chickens and a 18 lb turkey in there too.
we got 1/4 beef, I think it was around 160 lbs packaged up. We probably also had about 50 lbs in our freezer from the last purchase. There are 2 of us but we sometimes share some meat with family.
We have a single stand up freezer I don't remember the exact size but its around 17 cu ft I think. Also I use space in my mom's freezer if we don't have room because I have other things in the freezer, not just the meat.
1. I bought 1/3 of a pig a few months ago. My 1/4 of a cow is coming in two weeks. I have 4 whole chickens coming in about 2 weeks. There are two of us and a two year old.
2. Our freezer is a chest one, maybe 7 cu ft plus the one with our fridge is about 2 cu ft. I have no idea what I'm going to do with all my cow because it's going to be 4-5 cu ft more and our freezer is already mostly full.