Ordered my side of beef & lamb today

[Halex]

That sounds good, tonight we are having morrocan beef skewers on couscous with a lemon yogurt sauce.

H

[faffa_70]

Oh gosh dont Faffa, i think I need a heard to make all my recipes

H

LMAO I need a cow to feed my heard 

[Halex]

My oh my, i have never seen such a huge amount of meat before, unless still on all legs walking. The lamb looks minimal compated to the cow.

I had to keep my friends half cold too, before she picked it up. I had it everywhere, eskys, 3 fridges and even some in the freezer.

Then it had to be sorted, she came in 1/2 way through and burst into laughter when she couldnt see me for meat,LOL

We are out to dinner tonight in one of my fav restaurants, feel guilty as i have so much meat.

The whole lot came to $1027, so really goid value. We have a large standing rib roast down to mince. The butcher gave us 2 bags of lamb bones, no idea what they are but froze them anyway.


Very very excited, they weighed and labelled each pack for us.

H

[Carine]

How big was the steer...how many kg did you get?

[Halex]

1 side was approx 105kg

H

[faffa_70]

sounds good Hally! Once I get my new freezer I might get the details from you as I miss buying me meat like that 

[judydawn]

Be interested in how long this lasts Hally - the way you go through meat though, I guess it won't be long and you will be placing another order. 

[Halex]

Will let you know, the lamb weight was 22kg, so have over 60kg meat in the freezer, plus i bought some chicken & pork.

The butchers will sell me mt barker skinless chicken breats for $13per kg, cant get it any cheaper unless i buy hundreds of kgs.

Of out to Cocos tonight

H
 
Fancy vegetarain.LOL

[Carine]

Of out to Cocos tonight

H
 
Fancy vegetarain.LOL

 

We put half of one of our steers (brother-in-law bought the other half) in the freezer at the end of October and I'm struggling to put my boxes of tomato sauce in, now that our tomatoes are in full production.  But we should be right after a few BBQ's    Perfect season to have a few friends over.

I'll stick to the one freezer though or I don't think I'd be able to "manage" our meat intake.  We'll wait a bit before we slaughter a few lambs as I don't like keeping meat frozen for more than a year.

[Halex]

What size is your freezer, mine is over 1/2 full, so unless I had my fridge freezer empty I woukdnt be able to fit a whole side, thats a lot of meat.

How long will it last you.

H
I did eat vegetarian last night, saw too much meat yesterday, wasnt interested.

[Carine]

I think our freezer is 360l  and 3/4 full of steer.  Our beast was about 250 to 300kg dressed.  The only thing I could weigh accurately as we were packing the meat was our share of mince: 30kg.
This will probably last us the year, but this is not the only meat on the menu 
Very nice to have plenty of meal options in the freezer, isn't it?

[Halex]

Hi Carine, my chest freezer is 163l, was surprised how much I could fit in. Have plastic bags labelled, i.e. mince, roasts, diced steak etc. yes its great, i know if we get asked to a bbq last minute we have meat, without going to a dodgy  24hr shop.

My butcher said meat guaranteed 6 monts but shoud last longer. i think it will be gone in 6 monts

H

[fundj&e]

Hally did i read that right ,"  if we get asked to a bbq last minute we have meat"

[Carine]

Hally, we have am upright freezer so I can't fill it to the brim  .  Also mean I can find the cuts of meat I'm looking for easily!  A freezer contents list is helpful whichever type of freezer you have!

Going through the lot in 6 months will mean lots of BBQs   

[Halex]

My storage boxes dont fit in the freezer, so now have them in plastic bags labelled, diced steak, roasts, steak, beef stirfry etc.

Still eating the meat we already had in the freezer.

Taking alot of meat to Kalbarri for bbqs

H

Uni, yes you read it right. In the past on a sunday we have had to rush out andbuy some meat, now I have heaps. We also have last minute bbqs here, decide in the morning, easy now just defrost the meat.