Walmart is out of meat!
Where's the beef?
Chicken?
WTH - Biscuits too?
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Self reliance starts with WATER, FOOD, SHELTER and PROTECTION. If you are trying to get something vital in the middle of a crisis you are already two months too late.... 6 -
Same here!!!!!!!!!! 0 -
plenty around here....wife went to walmart and got about 20# boneless chicken breasts and 2# thick sliced bacon and it was loaded in her car per phone in order and the produce has been 1st rate.....no fatty crap...easy shop and the prices seem the same here with orders all filled ?? 0 -
bpost said:Self reliance starts with WATER, FOOD, SHELTER and PROTECTION. If you are trying to get something vital in the middle of a crisis you are already two months too late....
OH I'm good. Have all that and then some.0 -
Only going to get worse 3 -
Plenty of chicken and pork at Winco a few hours ago. I got enough to can 14 more quarts (30#) and to cook 10# for the freezer <$2/#. Even scored a box of Kleenex. No Dawn soap. 0 -
The question is; Is it being hoarded or is the supply diminished. Or most likely both. 3 -
wally world and other local markets have looked like that for a couple weeks .
I have had hit mostly miss getting packs of chicken boneless cuts for my dogs what they eat majority of the time
was in town today lots of empty shelf's no TP no cleaning products no alcohol and just a few packs of random meat
I heard wendys has 18 stores ? or 18% of there fast food places serving no beef no supply
I agree going to get worse before better
I think why they are pushing to get our country up and going fast even running out of TP caused fights and protest , no food would open the flood gates0 -
No problem at all here. Plenty of beef and Pork. Bought a brisket to smoke., 0 -
I have plenty of beef around. Just need to work out a price with a neighbor.
My road a few months ago:
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Locals worried about a meat shortage called the local butchering shops to have their cattle and hogs processed. One YEAR wait time before available at any of the locations. They will not accept any until then. So, unless you are going to process your own meat, buying live animals for food may not be a worth while investment.
Several local grocery stores have been limiting the amount of meat each customer is allowed to buy. A few more have recently implemented similar policies.
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Processing it myself is not out of the equation.76k20 said:Locals worried about a meat shortage called the local butchering shops to have their cattle and hogs processed. One YEAR wait time before available at any of the locations. They will not accept any until then. So, unless you are going to process your own meat, buying live animals for food may not be a worth while investment.
Several local grocery stores have been limiting the amount of meat each customer is allowed to buy. A few more have recently implemented similar policies.
Might have to get a younger / smaller one - less work..3 -
My sons tell me it a several month wait to get meat processed around here all the local places are booked up 0 -
I can skin a buck deer, I can run a trot line... 6 -
drobs said:
Processing it myself is not out of the equation.76k20 said:Locals worried about a meat shortage called the local butchering shops to have their cattle and hogs processed. One YEAR wait time before available at any of the locations. They will not accept any until then. So, unless you are going to process your own meat, buying live animals for food may not be a worth while investment.
Several local grocery stores have been limiting the amount of meat each customer is allowed to buy. A few more have recently implemented similar policies.
Might have to get a younger / smaller one - less work..
It is good that you know how to process yourself. That is becoming increasingly less common with people these days, myself included. Smaller animal would fit better in the fridge and freezer too.
One of the questions locally is what are deer hunters going to do during deer season? Around here, most take them to the same butcher shops to be processed that cattle and hogs go to. Might be interesting this fall...0 -
Still have alot of deer meat in the freezer .jimdeere said:I can skin a buck deer, I can run a trot line...0 -
Ya make yer own whiskey, and yer own smoke too?jimdeere said:I can skin a buck deer, I can run a trot line...3 -
If they’d let me. 0 -
I've always skinned and butchered my own deer. Never ever thought about taking it to someone. Have an electric grinder and throw in the cheapest bacon I can find for fat content for the ground meat. Backstraps and tenderloins might make it to the freezer if the kids aren't pounding on my door to have deer meat, white gravy and taters.
Hams into freezer, shoulders stripped for stews. Taught son-in-law to process his meat as well. He likes summer sausage so he sends some meat to have it turned into jalapeños and cheese sausage.
Grew up hunting to eat so can skin a squirrel, a rabbit and gut a fish. And yes, I can run a trotline.
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A country boy can survive.jimdeere said:I can skin a buck deer, I can run a trot line...3 -
I have a deer and and a hog in my chest freezer. Might look more seriously into finding a couple more hogs. 0 -
76k20 said:Locals worried about a meat shortage called the local butchering shops to have their cattle and hogs processed. One YEAR wait time before available at any of the locations. They will not accept any until then. So, unless you are going to process your own meat, buying live animals for food may not be a worth while investment.
Several local grocery stores have been limiting the amount of meat each customer is allowed to buy. A few more have recently implemented similar policies.
Two month wait by me. Got two steers going in the 22'nd of July. Butcher said a normal week they get 60-80 hogs and last week they got 108. Said their catering dropped to nothing as well.0 -
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B.S. !!! plenty here in S.E. TN !!!!!
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Many of the packing plants here in the Midwest have been shut down. Some of the hog facilities around here are empty. No sows, no feeder pigs, nothing. If they can't sell them, they won't raise them. And NO hogs are owned by farmers, they are all owned by big outfits such as Cargill. Farmers just own the buildings and get the manure for fertilizer. 0 -
Walmart here is pretty well picked clean, but the WinCo down the road was well stocked, even the TP shelves were full this time. 0 -
Hang on if you freezer quits on you. Stupids have hoarded them up to.No one to be found anywhere according to all local outlets.0 -
My nephew called me a couple days ago and told me to be prepared to pay 10 bucks a pound for hamburger around here. I noticed a couple weeks ago prices were nearly halfway there at 4.79 lb. for 80\20 ground chuck. I was limited to a max purchase of just 3 lb's.
The only chicken available for the last month has been these 10 lb. packs of leg thigh quarters that are IMO from some very aged oversized chickens! The prices for these are still cheap under a dollar a lb. and make great K-9 supplements.
Milk and milk products are also in short supply here. I am going to be missing my daily glass of buttermilk for who knows how long. Over the last couple of months, going without various food favorites and trying new things in the diet to fill the vacancies has instilled appreciations for many new tastes. Trying to remain optimistic and holding on to sanity is my main challenge lately.3 -
How how about the local farmer who is cutting out the middle man. You go to his farm you pick the cow, you get a gun and a chainsaw to field dress the cow. 3 -
Always processed my own deer and wild pigs .. may not be as pretty as a butcher shop but it will eat
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As a small child growing up on a poor farm, we butchered twice a year. It was just enough to get us through that period of time, no more. Today, even in their advancing years, my uncles still butcher due to the distance from stores which carry butchered products. I have my grandfather's butchering tools still carefully packed to preserve them as they were from his time of providing beef, pork and chicken for our family. Even after moving off the farm, our local grocer/butcher provided a large walk in cooler for his supply of beef and pork sides while being large enough to offer space to private individuals for bulk purchases.
My thinking is that these butchering factories will suffice for those locked up in the mega-cities without the capabilities of providing for themselves. But, this era could provide the rest of us with the impetus to encourage the return of the smaller hometown processors which used to be a mainstay in out little towns. Downsizing of providers and processors would certainly be my choice for a better direction. It would require new apprenticeship programs to educate real butchers and not those factory butchers found in grocery chain stores.
We all used to have gardens, Victory or otherwise, to keep us in fresh veggies and provide those of us who canned, with a source of provisions for a winter supply. The local farmers markets could see reality and a better position in the supply chain instead of simply being a novelties for the snobs. This might work out better in the long run for many of us while leaving the big city centers to wait for the delivery trucks. Local job stimulus would grow quickly. No one says we have to buy from Wally World.
Does anyone remember the mobile butchers who would come to your farm to do small amounts of processing for farmers who lacked the facilities? Their truck was a self-contained butcher facility run on a generator. FDA approved and inspected.
Best.3
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