Glad you found some…
Not too long ago, I made a “frito pie” with ground turkey vs. ground beef – there was a slight difference, but it was still good.
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I don’t think the US imports much beef itself, but I suppose there could be follow-on effects if (e.g.) feed or vet meds are imported? I don’t know much about the workings of the US beef industry.
@shrinkrap - I think my ground beef prices have been similar for a while at least. I’ve stopped buying beef in part because of the cost but also I’ve got probably 50 pounds of various beef cuts in the freezer and I need to work through that for a while.
But we’ve really been binging on chicken lately because the local grocery has had various parts in family packs bogo/half price each week for about a month now. Wings at $2.25/lb (which I know sounds like normal price from just a few years ago), drums about $0.60/lb, thighs about $1, leg-thigh quarters about $0.80, and breasts (split/skin-on) around $2.5 (IIRC, this was 4 weeks ago).
Also the whole bigger birds (7+ pounds) are often between 1-1.6/pound depending on sale.
So I’ve been putting up tons of concentrated chicken bone broth/stock. I guess it counts as both a bone broth and a stock because bones & any uneaten skin and scrap meat go the pressure cooker until the bones are fragile (about 4 hours on pressure). Then once the broth comes off the bones and is defatted, I stovetop simmer bay leaves for about 3 hours, then add onion/carrots/celery for an hour, with some thyme the final 15 minutes.
Strain, concentrate, freeze, have high hopes for soups or white bean chicken chili, but instead watch it walk out the door as my 2nd and 3rd daughters depart to their apartments. I’m going to have to start hiding some for me.
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How much does ground beef usually cost per lb near you?
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I just looked at Hannaford’s sale flyer for this week - it’s showing 80/20 beef patties at
And this week, Market Basket has a Wagyu ground beef at
And regular 85/15 beef patties at
Wegman’s pricing on regular 80/20 and organic grass-fed 85/15:
So yeah - pricing is all over the place.
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I figured that in-store prices would probably be lower. Good to know!
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Online, $8.99 a pound for 80 percent, $9.99 for 93 percent in one pound packages at Raleys today, but I also see some 93 percent packages priced around 12.99/pound at Safeway.
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Quietly? That can’t be a pileated. 
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Usually we can hear her or her buddy ‘Conan’ flying up the valley announcing their impending arrival. I think she was on a souting mission yesterday. No suet cakes out yet, just a large terra cotta sauce of water.
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Did anyone in this community play the board game ‘Risk’ bitd? We’d play it on weekend nights when we were done carusing the party scene. We’d move on to ‘Pass out’ when were tired of ‘Risk’. The theme of ‘Risk’ reminds me of current events.
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Why would I want to play a game - usually a pastime to take a break from the real world - that reminds me of the real world???
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We only have 3 types at most plazas in Ontario: regular/medium, lean and extra lean. I don’t even know the percentage of fat in each type.
I am usually paying around the equivalent of around $8 USD/ lb ($11 CAD/ lb ) for lean.
That said, I buy my meat at an indie butcher shop that charges a little more than the most affordable grocery store chains.
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I admit it: I sang the song in my head while reading it!
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My first band used to cover this one, and I actually got to see Meredith Brooks live in concert in my hometown 
Surprisingly good guitar player!
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I heard about this condition a few years ago.
If you’re out of the concrete jungle and ‘in the nature’, it is always a good idea to do a tick check on you and your fur buddies. Tick populations are growing; blame it on changes in climate conditions.
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My dogs get a tick prevention with their heartworm med each month. The ticks fall off them (dead) if they bite,
I wish we had this prevention available.
I understand the research and development on preventative tick vaccines for humans was stopped in the US and Canada.
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The raid of a local construction site. 
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Not sure if warming directly helps tick or not.
The biologist running their tick measures program said it’s due to a large jump (almost 40%) in the local population of the deer that are the primary carriers of the tick.
Of course that leads to “Why has the deer pop grown so large?” Faster/better foliage growth?
@Phoenikia - as always, many thanks for the NYT gift link. Very interesting situation.
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Apparently the deer tick nymphs, which can be the size of a poppyseed, are spreading a lot of Lyme this year.
My vet works with migratory birds, and he said many are covered in ticks across their chests when they arrive on the north shore of Lake Erie from further south.
I found an attached nymph deer tick on me this summer, and got an Rx for doxycycline to prevent Lyme. It was really hard to remove the attached nymph tick, compared to removing an engorged adult deer tick.
Definitely global warming has led to more ticks in Canada. I used to camp and hike all summer, take walks in the woods all fall.
I wasn’t bitten by a tick until Nov 2020. I had my second bite this summer. I removed one off my dog this summer and removed another off my other dog last spring.
I had never seen any deer or lone Star ticks, personally, before the last 5 years in southwestern Ontario. There were dog ticks around. Now there’s a warning that deer ticks are endemic at the park in my neighbourhood.
I knew someone who had contracted Lyme disease in Duck, NC in 1997.
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