I love my local IGA

[Matt300ZXT]

If you're unfamiliar, they're an employee owned grocery store, usually a medium sized store, that's cost + 10%. Anyways, there aren't many around where I've lived in TN, but there is one just a few miles from my house here. I don't buy a lot there, but I'll shop their meat deals. They usually have pork tenderloins at a good price, and run whole pork loins on sale fairly often. I can usually get a tenderloin for about $7.50-8.00 out the door and that'll feed me 2 or 3 meals. The pork loins are usually 4-5 lbs of meat or so and end up being about $18-20 out the door and I literally couldn't eat it all before it'd go bad. I would've gotten one the other day when I was in there, but my freezer was literally FULL of steaks, ground beef, chicken, pork ribs, I may even have some more tenderloins in there that are just buried in other meat. Also, my rats for feeding my snakes lol I'd like to get a whole loin and slice it into pork steaks, I think that'd be a good use of the savings.

Twice this spring they've run whole lip-on ribeye "loafs" for $5.68 a lb. Last time, I bought about $72 out the door's worth and got about 23 steaks out of it. Yesterday, I bought one for about $50 out the door and just got 10 big ass honkin' steaks plus 1 decent sized end cut bagged up and put in the freezer. It's easy to do ketovore when you can get steak for so damn cheap lol

They were running New York strip "loafs" as well too the other day but I don't like that cut. But if that's all they have on sale next time I'll get it. The meat packer they buy these from advertise them as pasture raised, antibiotic free, so I don't think I can get a much better quality steak. Especially for the price.

 

[VonBonfire]

If you're unfamiliar, they're an employee owned grocery store, usually a medium sized store, that's cost + 10%. Anyways, there aren't many around where I've lived in TN, but there is one just a few miles from my house here. I don't buy a lot there, but I'll shop their meat deals. They usually have pork tenderloins at a good price, and run whole pork loins on sale fairly often. I can usually get a tenderloin for about $7.50-8.00 out the door and that'll feed me 2 or 3 meals. The pork loins are usually 4-5 lbs of meat or so and end up being about $18-20 out the door and I literally couldn't eat it all before it'd go bad. I would've gotten one the other day when I was in there, but my freezer was literally FULL of steaks, ground beef, chicken, pork ribs, I may even have some more tenderloins in there that are just buried in other meat. Also, my rats for feeding my snakes lol I'd like to get a whole loin and slice it into pork steaks, I think that'd be a good use of the savings.

Twice this spring they've run whole lip-on ribeye "loafs" for $5.68 a lb. Last time, I bought about $72 out the door's worth and got about 23 steaks out of it. Yesterday, I bought one for about $50 out the door and just got 10 big ass honkin' steaks plus 1 decent sized end cut bagged up and put in the freezer. It's easy to do ketovore when you can get steak for so damn cheap lol

They were running New York strip "loafs" as well too the other day but I don't like that cut. But if that's all they have on sale next time I'll get it. The meat packer they buy these from advertise them as pasture raised, antibiotic free, so I don't think I can get a much better quality steak. Especially for the price.

IGA was pretty good IME. It's been going on 30 years since I've seen one. The piggly wiggly back in the day in my mom's hometown used to have guys who really knew the old world recipes for potato and polish sausages. Man, I loved that potato sausage but it's like a lost art. Last time I had it it was crap. Once in a while though you find a grocer who has one or two old guys in the meat dept from the old school that really know what they are doing. Sounds like you hit paydirt Matt.