good to know thanks, Lee
"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> We did our monthly meat run to Sam's Club today. I usually buy a large eye
> round roast, cut it in half and freeze half. My DH likes roast beef
> sandwiches for lunch and I don't like him to eat all that sodium and
> chemical filled crap from the deli so I smear a half of an eye round roast
> with EVOO, hit it with granulated garlic, black pepper, onion powder and
> paprika and make him roast beef. He loves it.
>
> Today they didn't have any of these roasts in the case. I asked the
> butcher for one and he said that he had the whole eye in cryovac for $1.60
> per pound less. He said to cut off both ends and I'd have my roast. I did
> just that and it was a lovely piece of meat at a decent savings. Not too
> much extra fat to trim.
>
> The end pieces were trimmed, cut into cubes and frozen for stew this
> winter (if it ever gets cold)
>
> I'm going to by the whole cryovac one from now on!
>
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> Janet Wilder
> Way-the-heck-south Texas
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