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I love having a quarter of a cow in my freezer. Here's why:
1) It's hyperconvenient -- say goodbye to meat shopping. Once it's safely ensconced in your freezer (you'll need one with roughly four or five cubic feet of space), it's just a matter of plucking something out for dinner earlier in the day.
2) It's tasty -- remember the beef you ate as a child? Grass-fed (also called pasture-fed) tastes more like it than the buttery blast of grain-fed/feedlot beef. It's leaner and bolder, "beefier."
3) It's healthy -- it's lower in saturated fat (and indeed lower in all fat, and thus lower in calories), and provides two to four times as many omega 3s as grain-fed.
4) It's inexpensive -- a quarter-cow yields approximately 120 pounds of meat, and averages something like $4 to $5 per pound for the highest quality of meat you can buy.
5) I know (and heartily approve of) the farm from which it comes -- I visited the farm before my first purchase and was amazed to find a few dozen cows lolling about, lazily munching on a gigantic all-you-can-eat salad bar of beautiful pastures, troughs of clean water everywhere, and a barn so clean and inviting you could turn it into a B&B!
6) You get lots of different cuts -- t-bone, sirloin, rib roast, chuck roast, blade steak, hangar steak, and, of course, plenty of yummy ground beef.
Find out where to get grass-fed beef at: http://www.eatwild.com/products/index.html
If anyone has specific questions on cuts of meat or on any aspect of buying a quarter-cow, speak up!
Photograph by Annabelle Breakey
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