Home Meat Grinders
Home Meat Grinders Can Result in Big Savings to Your Family's Food Budget
The difficult days of making chicken, ham, roast beef or seafood salad are long gone since the invention of the electric home meat grinder. An electric home meat grinder does not require hand cranking which can be so tiresome if you use one of the old fashioned home meat grinders. Electric home meat grinders are available as stand alone appliances or as attachment blades to different models of electric food processors and stand mixers. Home meat grinders can result in big savings to your family's food budget. Instead of purchasing deli meats or buying cold subs for lunch, you can make delicious salads for pennies per serving and pack lunches.
A home meat grinder is good for more than making chicken or ham salad sandwiches for lunch. Cooked meats can be ground and added to Italian or Mexican dishes, casseroles, pizza or soup. There are different settings on most electric home meat grinders so you can select the desired texture of the ground meat. A home meat grinder can also be used to ground fresh uncooked meats for meat loaf, sausages or browning. The ground meats either cooked or fresh, can be frozen for later use as well.
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Some fresh or lightly cooked vegetables can also be ground in a meat grinder for use in recipes. Ground vegetables can be added as substitutions for many types of oils, eggs and other liquids used for thickening purposes. Vegetables can also be added to soups, casseroles or sauces to provide extra nutritional value to the foods you feed your family. Food preparation at home not only saves money, but by eating at home you can involve the family in preparing a meal. The kids will be doing math and not even realize it when they measure ingredients or calculate the amount of food needed for a recipe. Everyone can get involved. You can assign age appropriate chores for the younger children, and if you have teenagers, send them to the store with a detailed grocery list and set spending limit. Not only will they get to drive, but they will get to see how much food costs. You may also choose to actually show the amount you are saving by physically putting the money in a jar and watch it accumulate, or by making a chart or spreadsheet that calculates the cost savings of replacing a $5.00 footlong with a homemade ham salad sandwich. It is valuable to actually track your savings in some way if you are serious about saving money as most of us are these days. The cost of a home meat grinder should be added as an expense to your home budget as you monitor your savings. An electric model can cost in the range of $75 to $150, but you can still purchase the old fashioned hand meat grinder like your mother or grandmother used for between $40 and $60. For a single person, there are small meat grinders for smaller portions that are available for $30 or less. When shopping for a home meat grinder you will want to determine what types of grinding plates you want included with your product. And do not forget to explore the possibility of purchasing attachments available that grind meats for your popular brand stand mixers and food processors that many of us already have. Lastly, when you are justifying the purchase of a home meat grinder consider that you will also have a method to make your own finger sandwiches for the next birthday party, anniversary party, baby or bridal shower, open house or other event which you host and need serve food. Think of the money you will save on the cost of hosting this type of event when you make chicken salad instead of paying $5.00 or more per pound for it. |
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