Getting to Know Us/Me: Some Food Facts 2.2.2018

Just some random food facts...
  Meat:  Most of our meat comes from Peter's hunting and the local taxidermist.  We get fresh deer, elk, duck/geese and sometimes bear.  Although our meat is technically "free", we do all the work!

Peter and I with some of his family, cutting, grinding and freezing an Elk

Some of our chicken we get from a local organic farm.  They sell whole chickens very cheap (It's like half the price it would be in Texas)!  I do keep Costco's frozen chicken breast on hand and I die every time I have to purchase a new bag. :(   We have split a whole pig with a friend and might buy a butchered cow in the future.  With our location organic meat is easier to get and so much cheaper than where I grew up.  I still buy a local peppered (thick) bacon (so amazing :)), ground turkey and turkey ham/sausage.
  Vegetables and fruit:  In the summer time we try to buy 20 lbs or so of Flathead cherries.  Another local perk!  We freeze a good many bags and save them for things like homemade pie.  Peter's family has been in Montana for over 20 years now and many people know if they have extra the Metzgers will take them!  It's so nice and crazy to have apples or potatoes coming out of your ears. Lol  I do buy most of my produce from Walmart or Costco.
  Milk:  We could handle a cow or two with all that we go thru.  I buy 8 gallons of milk every single week! :0  Yeah I know, CRAZY!!  I have to budget a little over $20 for milk, thanks to Peter and my 3 kids!  We even had to rearrange the refrigerator shelves to made a place for all our milk.  Some families have a coffee addiction, we have a milk addiction! Haha 
  Everything else: Costco, Walmart and Walmart.com are my favorite grocery stores.  We don't have a grocery pick-up with our Walmart.  But I can buy diapers and other non-perishables and have them shipped to my door for free.
Hope you enjoyed this random food post.  I plan on doing one about my Trim Healthy Mamma experience and the not so THM daily stuff.  What's your favorite place for buying groceries?

Hannah