I buy chicken and ground beef from south mountain creamery which is much more expensive than supermarket meat but I have doubts about the source of their meats, eggs and dairy.

Anonymous wrote:+1 for Costco

+1, if you have a local super safeway with a butcher talk to the butcher and find out when their meats come in and buy on that day

+1 for Costco

We go to Takoma Park farmers market on sunday: smith meadow, north mountain and gunpowder bison

Dupont circle on sunday: smith meadow, cedarbrook and eco-friendly

White house market on Thursday and Bethesda and Rockville markets on Saturday: garden path (amish farmers)

Bethesda Market on Sunday: painted hand, walnut hill and something else I can't remember

We don't go to each one every week but we go to at least one a week.

We buy frozen chicken breats at trader joe's for a really great price and we also get fresh ground turkey meat at tjs as well as frozen shrimp. We save a ton and we really like the quality.

We get our meat at Mom's Organic Market or through ordering from Polyface. I can't afford to buy as much of this kind of meat as I (or my family, really) would like, either, so we have to eat less meat. My weekly meat budget is about $25, and that gets me a pound of chicken breasts (good for one family meal of stir fry, $10), two pounds of ground beef (two meals, $4 each) and maybe some sausage.

We get a lot at Costco.

I have started buying grass-fed bison rather than ground beef. I think the flavor is nicer and it's supposed to be better for you. I usually buy it from Ft. Myer commissary.

I used to buy lots of chicken but found it hard to find good quality chicken where I live, so we've started eating a lot more vegetarian foods.

OP here. I really don't feel like I can afford to solely buy local, grass-fed, etc. I want to, and I buy it when I feel like we can afford it, but that is not anywhere near 100% of the time.

Those of you who buy local and/or from farmers, where do you get it?

Yeah, we do grass fed, local, etc as well and chicken is too expensive to eat all the time for us. So we do more ground beef and seemed to have turned into flexitarians...

I buy it in bulk from local farmers. We only eat grass fed beef and free range chicken.

Buying in bulk really cuts down in the cost, but definitly not as low as Costco industrially raised meats.

When buying in bulk, chicken is way more expensive than beef, so we eat a lot of beef.

Farmer's markets, at the farm, Bon Vivant, and Washington's Green Grocer. Watch Food, Inc. Supermarket meat is absolutely disgusting!

We buy it at the super safeway because they have a nice butcher area with real butchers. Whole foods near us pre packages all their meats.

I feel like we spend a ton of money on chicken and ground beef, and it is really starting to bother me. Where do you buy your chicken? How about your lean ground beef?