When we first got to the farm we had the idea that we really wanted to start buying basic food items in bulk. We wanted to save time and fuel driving into Toowoomba and be able to put a meal together without having to go to the shops all the time. Part of this is stuff like rice, flour, muesli, cans of tomatoes etc. We also bought ourselves a second hand deep freezer, a 350 litre one. With that in mind we rang a local butcher and ordered ourselves a half a beast or half a cow. This is a lot of meat, the half cow weighs about 130 kgs and once it was all trimmed and cut up we got about 85 kgs of actual meat and a lot of dog bones for Mo. So we have a freezer full of beef and all for about $10 a kg rather than the usual exorbitant price of meat.
The meat quality and taste has been great and we have all the cuts including a lot of mince and sausages. We have also been buying other meat too so we don’t have to have beef every night.
20 kgs of mince, all the rough cuts are turned into mince or sausages.
setting up our table to bag up all the meat into meal sized portions, you need a lot of plastic bags for that much meat.
Mince portions
Roasts, we have been turning some of these into billtong.
Big bag of T-bone steaks
Roasts, sausages, meat, meat, meat.
Bones for Mo, so exciting
A freezer full of meat
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