[foxyv]

During 2020 and the Covid pandemic I just stopped buying meat. It seemed ridiculous to keep paying 70-80% of my grocery bill for just a few pounds of very low quality meat. A friend asked me to pick up a ribeye steak for a date and it was $12 a pound and looked like it came off a starving middle aged dairy cow. Zero marbling and super lean for a ribeye. Dad used to buy steaks like that to grind up for burgers at $2/lb less than 10 years ago.

Fresh vegetables have gone up too, but I'm not paying 20-40$ for a single 4 person meal anymore. Even the meat alternatives are starting to get competitive per pound. Even better is I can grow those in my back yard too.