{"id":9543,"date":"2022-08-28T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2022-08-28T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T15:41:55","slug":"article-half-cows-entire-pigs-families-are-buying-meat-in-bulk-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/?p=9543","title":{"rendered":"Article – Half cows, entire pigs: Families are buying meat in bulk to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the $200 weekly grocery bills that finally did him in. With three young kids and soaring meat costs, Logan Wagoner decided it was time to go whole hog.<\/a><\/p>\n

This spring, the St. Louis attorney bought half a cow and an entire pig – plus a freezer that now holds 320 pounds of bacon, sausages, rib-eye steaks, ground beef and soup bones in his basement.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m somewhat amused, and mildly dismayed, that it’s only now that the normies have discovered that, golly, buying in bulk saves money. Who knew<\/a>? There is, of course, another alternative to dropping that much money at once and that is to actively pursue sales and bargains, which has generally been my strategy. There are plenty of cases, documented here on the blog, where I found a closeout or sale on some meat and swooped in on the whole batch.<\/p>\n

But the notion that buying a freezer and half a beef is somehow newsworthy? Dude, one generation ago this was standard practice.<\/p>\n

I’d say that its a pretty solid bet that 95% of the people reading this already have freezers, and keep them full all the time. And…thats not newsworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the $200 weekly grocery bills that finally did him in. With three young kids and soaring meat costs, Logan Wagoner decided it was time to go whole hog. This spring, the St. Louis attorney bought half a cow … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,195,37],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-2","tag-inflation","tag-news-2"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commanderzero.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}