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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicken:  on sale for .89 or so a lb.  Sub cottage cheese for half the ricotta, use store brand pasta. The .89 sauce in the can is just fine.  Use frozen spinach, bought on sale, and for easy on cheese. If four people are eating a pound of pasta, you maybe need less food. That's dinner and lunches for my crew of four, at least. No need for meat with that much cheese, but veggie sausage is nasty. Salad is 89 cents or so a bag. Add some carrots and half a cucumber and you are good.

We eat meat every night of the week as well as lunches and breakfast and I don't spend near that much on food. Buy on sale and don't waste money on "[b]pastured free range" chicken and beef. It isn't worth it.[/b] [/quote]

I wouldn't eat meat at all if it were industrial meat.  Of course pastured is worth it.  It's the difference between eating a living creature that choked on air full of ammonia and aerosolized feces, that was miserable, in pain, often cannibalistic, that never saw the sun, that was raised fat and sick on the cheapest, crappiest food available for more yield per animal.  Have you ever been to a CAFO?  They smell really bad, and they smell really bad from 500 yards away.  It is stomach-churning and deeply immoral.  If I gave these places my money, I'd feel responsible for their health and environmental problems, animal abuse, worker abuse...

Pastured meat might as well be from an entirely different species.  The flavor, lipid profile and nutrient content are better, and in my experiences, pastured meat doesn't shrink up the way industrial meat does.  It also supports small family farms directly.

Worth it to me to buy in bulk and pay a few bucks extra per pound, even when it means eating less.  [/quote]

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