Beef - only about 12% of people are consuming half of all beef in the US (cheeseburgers, grill)
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We buy a quarter cow from a local butcher for a good price and get steaks, roasts and ground beef that lasts us for quite a while. We tend to eat it mostly on the weekends and particularly when our young adult sons come home for a visit.
Steaks on the grill, chili, roast in the crock pot, tacos, dirty rice, etc.
During the week I'd say we eat mostly chicken and fish.
I just heard a report stating only to eat red meat once a week to prevent diabetes. I gave up beef years ago after ecoli and mad cow disease were found in beef.
Actually, eating more meat (beef or otherwise) prevents the presentation of diabetes and facilitates its control. My success rate in treating diabetics over a 4o yr career was about 50% better than the reported average success rates of docs. I attribute that to my recommendation of a beef-centered diet. Beef is nutrient dense. A 1/3rd lb portion supplies all the protein, most minerals and half or more of most vitamins of the RDA and only 500 calories, with very few carbs. (and look up the cardiac value of cardiolipin found in beef) https://www.nutritionvalue.org/Hambu...nal_value.html
ONE steer with mad cow disease was found in the US (a steer imported from Canada) about 30 yrs ago. ...E.coli is everywhere....When meat at the butcher shop is ground, it's 9o% lean/10% fat....To "dilute" it to 80/20 ("ground chuck") or 70/30 (hamburger), they use the fat scraped from the underside of the hide (subcutaneous fat). You know, that hide that covered the steer while they wallowed in the mud & excrement in their pens. Luckily, inspections catch almost all contamination of products about to be shipped out. That's why you hear about all those recalls. Our commercial food supply is awfully safe.
Eating more beef would help eliminate the problem of constipation often seen in women.
We export a lot of beef, but we also import a lot. The stuff you buy at the chains stores is mostly imported. The good restaurants get most of the really good beef. You can save money by going to local, small processors and buying by the qtr, half or whole steer. For reference, a whole steer yields 450-500lb of feezer beef, and that will fill a full sized freezer (20-22 cu ft).
All cows are grass-fed-- at least 'til they get to the feedlots. "Grass-finished" is what's so supposed to be so good for you. The small differences in nutritional measures seen compared to feedlot beef is not clinically significant. Save your money if you're spending the extra for grass-finished if you're doing it for some imagined health benefit. (I've raised grass-finsihed beef. I prefer the taste & texture. It's an acquired taste.)
How often you buy beef, what cuts and what are the most common dishes you make from it? (no recipes on this forum, just name of the dishes, please)
We eat beef 3-4x a week for dinner and for lunch most days. Prime rib steaks, strip steaks, chuck roast, and ground beef are staples in our home. I'm a native Texan who was partially raised on a beef cattle ranch so meat is mother's milk to me. My husband, a native NYer, is a beef lover, too.
Steaks and burgers go on the grill. The chuck roast is mostly used for lunch sandwiches.
Neither of us have high cholesterol and are healthy. Beef is good for ya!
I go to Sam's about once every month or 6 weeks, I buy 2 4packs of Filet, freeze in 2's and cook every weekend or other weekend. Otherwise it's chicken for me, an occasional pork roast. Those 8 steaks (filets) is about 100 bucks unless on sale. Going to cut back on the filet. Maybe chuck roasts and ground beef. Got the best burgers ever at O'maha meats. A one time buy.
I eat beef more than some in this thread, but I'm definitely not among the 12% noted in the OP. I prefer white meat to red meat, which leads to me consuming less beef than some others. Now that I think of it, I may have beef a handful of times per month. Even when eating fast food, I'm much more likely to get chicken or fish than a beef burger.
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Eat beef only as hamburger or Pho. About 1 once a week. More often in the fall when I go out to local watering hole to watch football. Exception - wife bought a large Costco package of beef jerky.
Otherwise pork and chix for normal daily nutrition. Fish (normally salmon or black cod (sablefish)2-3x/mo.
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