I’ve eliminated social media from my telephone. I discovered myself simply spending method to a lot time scrolling. And I’ve loads of different issues to do round right here. However I’m nonetheless on it 3-4 occasions per week for work. And it was throughout this time, I noticed an announcement that somebody opened a butcher store downtown. (Actually any new enterprise round right here is thrilling, particularly if we don’t have already got one!)
However I had a brainstorm. Now that I’m again to creating my canines’ meals, maybe I might get a deal on meat at this new butcher. At present, I am going to our native High quality Meals and purchase all of the bizarre low cost meat – turkey necks, pigs toes, hen leg quarters, and so on. And purchase their soup bones to make bone broth. Then I add in veggies (some frozen, some from my backyard), brown rice, and/or kidney beans. And so on. It’s really far more wholesome and so economical. However the meat value does add up.
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This week, I wandered into this new butcher store and inquired about meat for pet food. Holy cow, I obtained about 100 lbs of meet for $40. And it’s good things…lamb, steak, and so on. And he’s agreed to promote me his “scraps” each week going ahead. We exchanged numbers and I walked out of there with two giant, heavy luggage of meat scraps.
My canines eat a combination of uncooked and cooked meals. Whereas most of this haul went within the freezer, I cooked up a bunch of lamb with kidney beans, candy potatoes, and water plus turmeric and parsley within the crockpot. That may final the remainder of this week. (It doesn’t search for odor good to me, however the canines LOVE it!) And I’ll be packing up particular person meals in freezer luggage with meals to ship with Princess when Jake goes to dwell together with her. Sophie will more than likely return to kibble when she strikes to Virginia in July.
With no extra massive household to cook dinner for and time on my fingers, I’m having fun with returning to making ready my canine’s meals from scratch. (I do nonetheless want I might make it a facet hustle, however after wanting on the rules, it’s simply an excessive amount of.)
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