Extremely Frugal Meals

Making One Pound of Beef Last an Entire Week

A all-neat burger may become a thing of the past if there’s a beef shortage. Photo by LikeMeat on Unsplash

Here in the United States, we’re headed for the cost of beef going through the roof because the severity of the drought in the western states. Other parts of the world don’t appear to have it any better.

The Cause

Currently the cost of beef is not as high as it could be because ranchers are selling off their stock because they can’t afford to feed them and are culling many of their breeding stock. Not only is food an issue, but also water for those same cattle is also limited.

These cattle were not the stock they were raising for sale, but the stock that they were using for breeding purposes. If sufficient, gentle rains were to fall today, the sale of the breeding stock would not be happening, but it is and it would take at least two or more years to get the breeding stock back up to pre-drought numbers and so the price of beef will remain up for many years to come.

Stretching Dollars on Beef

That’s why, if we enjoy eating beef, we need to find ways of extending the beef we do get so we can enjoy every morsel. Below I have created a meal plan that can make a pound of beef last a family of four an entire week. Below I have seven meals that can all be made from a single pound of…