Quote Originally Posted by lv4dogs
Gosh can I come live with you? If I were to only buy meats that are $1.19/lb or less my dogs would only get chicken & organs. Even $1.99/lb & less leaves little choices for me, even from local butchers & the like.
How do you get it so cheap? If I can feed what you do for your price I could start feeding ALL raw again, even without a freezer.

I notice quite a few people from the south & west seem to get their meats cheaper than we do up here.
I buy things on sales, for the most part. Not sure if you have Harveys up where you are, but they are very cheap. Wal-mart is also cheap but sometimes their meat quality sucks. But I just bought a bunch of Tyson products from there, all for very good prices. Winn-Dixie is very, very, very cheap. I mean dirt cheap, so I go there often. Publix can be expensive but when they put things on sale you can get good deals. I get my lamb shanks from there on their last day of shelf life and they are marked down quite a bit. Our butchers are pretty expensive but one of them has a orange label sale that goes on ... all the time lol. And basically you can get 5 orange-labeled items for $20.00. I always get the largest packages and can easily save $5-10 from it.

Also, there is a supplier that I am planning on buying from, but with shipping it probably isn't cheaper for you to buy from her. She ships to the east coast. I can send you the link when I get home tonight.

Most of the raw feeders I know won't buy things unless if it is $.99 or less, and these are people I know over the internet so there are some located up where you are! Have you joined the rawfeeding Yahoo! group that I posted a link to in this thread? You can join and ask other New Yorkers where they get meat for a good price. The people on that list are really helpful.