We went to Sam's Club a couple of days ago and you know I always have to check out the meat counter for a good deal. This year the deals have been very much pork related. I can't remember a year where we have eaten so much pork and that's with us buying a pig on the hoof! I spotted a pork loin and while it was not the rock bottom prices we have been paying I bought it anyways. Over the next few posts I will chronicle what I did with this pork loin in series with the posts numbered as (X). This is the first of the series.
I had fairly definite plans as to what I wanted to use the pork loin for. I cut the pork loin into 3 sections - tip, middle and butt end. I planned on using the tip for ground pork, the middle for peameal bacon and the largest portion for for boneless pork chops. When cut this way it would result in 9 meals for 2 plus left-overs at cost of $1.68 for the meat for 2. Left-overs of course would increase the number of meals per pork loin so over all I felt this was a good deal.
I decided to break what I did with the pork loin into 4 posts. Watch for pork loin (2) the post following thing week's Frugal Kitchens 101. The topic will be a recap of making peameal bacon.
5 food lovers commented:
One of the great bargains in the meat dept!
pork... and especially at that price... what a bargain... will be paying attention
It was a good deal but not a great one as pork has been as low as $1 per lb here. Still a deal is a deal and that price was quite good :)
What a great looking piece of meat! You can do so many things with pork!
Thanks Chey :) You are right about the versatility of pork. There's been a lot of great deals on it lately as well making it easy to stock up a bit.
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