buying 'sides' of meat

[Olive]

anyone here buy sides of meat??
how do you find it?

im looking into buyin a half a cow with a friend, so 1/4 each, works out to $10kg for grass fed beef

[ss_storm]

My parents are farmers, so they get 'home grown' meat! Every few months dad takes in an extra lamb/steer for the butcher to cut up for them. It's great, and more economical than buying cuts of meat individually. Just make sure you have a big freezer Although if you're only getting 1/4 it won't be too bad. Also tell the butcher how you want it cut up, or if there is anything in particular you want in your box.

[Trillian]

I LOVE it! Nothing better than having a freezer chock full of meat. One thing though if you are going halves with a friend, is make sure that where you are getting it from will do it up so you get a half of everything, otherwise one of you will have all the rump and one will have all the scotch fillet/t-bones etc. And there is a LOT of meat in half a beast. You could also ask them if they can do you some sausages too and mince beef instead of just straight cuts of meat.

[Cupcake]

If we had a deep freezer we'd do it. But we just dont have the space unfortunately

[Olive]

thanks SS

sherie they do it in all different cuts so we'd just have to spend some time spliting it, will ask her more questions!!

ammaki, we only have a small space under our bench in the laundry that will hold a small freezer, just hope its big enough!

[Trillian]

Sweet! That makes it easier. One thing you will have to remember to do if you only have a small freezer is rotate the meat around in there for a few days to make sure it all gets frozen and preferably have it cold as it goes in so your freezer doesn't work so hard. When we do a sheep/beast we will layer it with what we already have in there. Oh and make sure that with the gravy/chuck steak that they dice it for you otherwise it can be hard to tell what it is if you look at a frozen slab of meat and you don't want to use good cuts of meat in a stew accidentally.

[Cupcake]

ammaki, we only have a small space under our bench in the laundry that will hold a small freezer, just hope its big enough!

Let me know how you go! DP is a butcher & dad has been at us for about a year to go halves with him!