Last week it was$5!

I seldom buy it but when I just looked the for 85% was $5,99 on sale. From the meat case what is probably 80% is $4.99 also on sale. Most of what I cook I purchase meat that is sold as thick steaks or roasts mostly on sale the cut it into steaks, strips, chunks, or smaller pieces. I use the steaks and smaller pieces immediately and put the rest in the freezer for later. If I want a hamburger I go somewhere that sears the meat at a higher temperature than I use at home.

It's still $8.00. for a basic burger at Gott's (small Bay Area chain.) This thread just made me decide to make frikadellen today- my favorite kind of hamburgers.

Wow, sal, 59 cents was a looooong time ago! I just paid $6 for some but that's been the price for awhile now. Was just thinking about tri-tip and how it was under $2/lb. forever at the market. Also a looooong time ago!

I buy grass fed, grass finished beef from a local farm. Depending on the breed, demand and season $7-10 per pound. A few weeks ago they were overloaded with hamburger so I bought 20 lbs. in one pound packages for $100 i.e. $5 per pound. It went into the freezer.

Funny thing is I am not a fan of ground meats but my family loves ground beef so I buy it.

I don't know ;0) The weekly Safeway ad reads only 80% lean ground beef (and that's a higher fat content than I usually buy) is buy one, get one free. It doesn't indicate how large the packages are, or if the one being paid for is $5 or $15 a pound. I haven't been in the store to see for myself. We don't use a lot of hamburger. When the 97% lean is on sale I'll buy some and freeze it in 1 or 1/2 pound packages. Half a pound is enough (with additional bacon) to flavor some baked beans or add to a quick pasta/tomato dinner for two.

90% lean ground sirloin, Marianos Chicago

I buy organic 85/15 ground beef for between just under $5 to just under $6. It's been pretty close to the same price for a few years now, and has gone up between .50-1.00, depending on the store. I get mine at either Aldi or Walmart - Walmart's is a bit better quality, IMO. Aldi's, tho a few cents less, often has bits of gristle and/or bone. Regular ground beef can be a couple dollars less here.

Meat in general has gone up a lot over the years. I remember when chicken wings were about the cheapest thing you could buy in the meat dept.!

$3.44 for Ground Chuck at Sam's a week ago.

At HEB 5 lbs of ground chuck, 80%, $13.34

Just looked at a local store ad to see: 3 lb. chub of 80/20 is $3.66/lb, or $3.99 for a single lb. chub.

I pretty much never buy hamburger since the price became equal to or more than other good cuts of beef. For a couple of years my "trigger price" per pound for any beef (like, eye of round) was $3, now it is $4. Boneless bottom round is $3.99 this week and eye of round is $4.49.

What boggles my mind is that cuts like shank are so expensive - those used to be the lowest price of all, didn't they?!

Walmart had the 10lb chubs for $21.17. $2.12 a pound!

I bought a pound last evening of extra lean to make some tacos. It was 5.99.

We buy our beef by the 1/4 or 1/2 of cow. Straight from the farmer to the butcher.

Ground chuck is $3.99lb at three of our local stores. I live in north central Indiana.

80 percent is 1.99 a lb every other week or so .... then it shoots up to $4 every other week ...

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when 10 lb tubes are on sale for about $2 a lb, i buy that and make burgers, or split into one or two-pound packages and freeze ...

I got about 40 pounds of it with a quarter of a cow from a farm share a couple years back. Haven't run out of that yet. So I don't know.

80/20 is about $5. i try to buy on sale.

I pay an average of $6 for 85-90%, grass-fed.

Right now $4 to $5 per pound.

I buy the 4 1 lb packages of organic ground beef from Costco for 20.00 so $5 per lb. The flavor is the same as I remember from when I was a kid and I like the way it’s prepackaged.

Here's some examples from my local Safeway.

It's gone up. We used to pay around $5 per pound for the leanest available. This week the same brand is $6.50.

I just bought lean ground for $3.00/pound tonight-sale price.

We get local, grassfed 85/15 at the Co-op for $6.99/lb. I don't like beef but hamburger is alright. We use it to make tacos and other dishes.

I buy 1/4 beef from a friend, about once a year. Processing costs are separate and run about $70 but the meat itself, regardless of the cut, is $3 a lb. (Girlfriend's price)

It has to be the LABOR. And packaging. And refrigerated transportation. I can't think of any other rationale for 'pork bellies' (bacon) to cost $5/lb, same as pork roast/chops.

I hope labor is *getting* a fair share of the increased retail.

Usually runs between 1.79-1.99 when on good sale, and there's usually the price break for buying bigger packs. We don't eat a lot of hamburger, so I tend to stock up once a year in the spring with 10-15 pounds and it lasts pretty much till next spring.

To my understanding, processing and packing is still kind of backed up because of C-19, and also with beef speficically there was a big cyberhack on JBS recently. JBS is the biggest U.S. beef processor and had to halt all operations for a bit. So a jump in prices akin to how gas jumped price after it was cyberhacked is probably to be expected.

WOW! I can't believe those prices. Glad I have ground venison, elk, pork and bison in my freezer.

I do not buy hamburger often, runs 6 to 9 a pound around here. When the kids were young I paid 25 cents a pound and on sale you got 5pounds for $1.00. This was in the 1960s.

I have not bought ground beef in 30 years (I used to buy chuck or round and grind it myself, however), but I heard that beef prices are going up because of the recent cyberattack by foreign entities of one of the major meat packing companies.

I mainly purchase from a local beef house at about 6 a pound.

I have no idea what I pay for our home grown grass fed beef. Our mixed Hereford and Baldy (Hereford/black Angus cross) herd is currently at four breeders, three 6 month old calves, and one steer that is destined for the freezer this fall.

We do supplement them with bagged feed in the winter and have to buy baled hay for the winter as well at $25 for a 3/4 ton bale. Processing is $0.60/lb hanging weight at the Amish butcher we take them to. I THINK the meat ends up costing around $3.50 - $4 per pound for all cuts combined including the processing.