Was shopping today and stopped at the deli counter to get some roast beef. My lord are prices high on deli meats around here and I mean like almost double what they were pre Covid for some of them. I know all about the inflation but almost doubling in price? Turkey breast was $13.99 today as was the roast beef. Turkey breast used to be $6 or $7 a pound. Bologna is about as expensive as the turkey breast used to be. Just wondering what others are seeing. They did have frozen turkey on sale for 55 cents a pound though so I bought one for Thanksgiving.

If I recall correctly, pastrami and honey maple ham cost $14/lb 2 years ago.

This weekend, I paid $20/lb. I've had to shrinkflate - less meat per sandwich. Either that or no sammies for 2 days. Instead of thin sandwich bread, I use texas toast for sammies to make up for less meat.

Yep, the Boar's Head brand sliced chicken breast deli meat is now $16/lb out here. Just outrageous.

I could never justify that for deli meat when you can get ribeye or New York strip for the same price or cheaper.

Beef is insane right now, all meats are.

Went to buy a whole strip loin of beef to smoke/roast on my Weber for my birthday and they were like $150 each at Costco. Double what I'd have paid just a few years earlier. Nope. And those are Costco prices, usually better than the supermarket or butcher.

There's always the DIY approach. Decent meat slicers aren't overly cheap, but at the price of lunch meat these days, it doesn't take that long for it to pay for itself.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I could never justify that for deli meat when you can get ribeye or New York strip for the same price or cheaper.

This right here!!! A sandwich is great every now and again, but damn, dollar for dollar, ribeye wins hands down.

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I could never justify that for deli meat when you can get ribeye or New York strip for the same price or cheaper.

Right? Boars Head Ham at $13/lb or New York strip at $10/lb. NYS, FTW.

Yea. I generally agree.

However, I can't eat a steak for lunch everyday. And also sometimes I just want a quick, spur of the moment snack. I'm not making a steak just for a snack. I agree w/ the thinking in general but it's not pragmatic for me.

Besides who cooks a 3 ounce steak (that's about how much I use for sammie).

Sandwiches are some of my favorite food… If I really am skipping on pennies, I used to just go buy a chunk of ham in the meat section for 50% less at the store, go to the deli counter, and I made them slice it for me.

I only buy the pre-packaged store brand deli meats

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Originally posted by SIG4EVA:
I could never justify that for deli meat when you can get ribeye or New York strip for the same price or cheaper.

We are able to buy either bonless strip steak or porterhouse fairly often for $7.99 a pound and love it BUT we like sandwhiches too and I make them for my wife to brown bag for work and that saves a lot of money but more importantly for her it saves a lot of time. Her favorite is Vienna Corned Beef on marble rye

I used Berkel commerical slicers when we had the convenience store franchise that had a small deli/sandwhich shop years ago but dang are those things big and heavy so we will stay with buying meat from the deli plus I cut myself one one too while cleaning it after sharpening the blade.

It's crazy. I can go to a local franchise here called Flanagans, it's a sit down sports bar type restaurant with good food, and they have about 8 lunch specials all $6.99 plus drink ($3.29)......10 ounce burger with fries, 1/2 bbq chicken and side, 10 wings and side, are some of the choices......you're bill is around $11.xx, or you can go to a sub shop and get a small 8" or so sub.......for the same money as a sit down restaurant with a cooked good meal. It doesn't make sense. I got a 12" roast beef sub today at Laspada's (local 6 store chain) and it's a great sub, but was $17.73.....I did eat 1/2 for lunch and 1/2 for dinner........but still. The lunch meat prices are crazy. I've found local deli's usually have Boar's head or similar for about 20% less than the grocery store (Publix).

Same where I'm at. Was shocked when I went to deli counter recently. I decided a few weeks back to skip the to go and fast food lunches because the prices got out of control. Then I find out making sammies for work went up 50-60% in last year after having already gone up year prior by double digits.

I just paid $14.99 a pound for Boars Head honey maple turkey a few days ago at my nearby Sprouts Grocery.

Meat prices are getting higher and higher. I'm getting ready to clean out and defrost my chest freezer, I've figured I need to drop about $500 to start with at Costco. I'll probably spend another $500 to fill it soon as sales prices come about (thanksgiving turkeys and hams, etc). It's a lot of money to spend, but I don't see prices coming down, rather a continual rise.

I've got friends who are trying to get by on Social Security and the rising prices of everything is wiping them out, they're going to have to try to find a part time job.

I used to volunteer a lot of the regional food bank and some food pantries, but not lately, and I'm wondering how they are doing as far as inventory to disperse and the demand on them. I bet they're crazy busy with demand and maybe insufficient inventory coming in on a regular basis.
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At the Yooper grocery store deli:
Honey roast chicken breast $11.00 per pound.
And that is when they actually have it.

Just bought salami for cream cheese rolls, 10.49/lb.
I gave up on the Boars Head honey maple turkey about 8 months ago.
I can afford it, just won't pay it. More PBJ's for me!!
I got some affordable strip steaks at Costco a month ago.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Beef is insane right now, all meats are.

Went to buy a whole strip loin of beef to smoke/roast on my Weber for my birthday and they were like $150 each at Costco. Double what I'd have paid just a few years earlier. Nope. And those are Costco prices, usually better than the supermarket or butcher.

The main reason we still enjoy good beef is that I raise cattle. For the little I get at the stockyard selling off calves, I'm better off filling the freezer with one when we get low on beef. Chicken has also been outrageous with the bird flu and all. The only meat that has remained fairly stable is pork, so we eat a lot more of it these days, even though my wife prefers chicken above beef or pork.

Just went to the deli last night for some sammich stuff...

Boar's Head Ovengold Turkey - $13.99/lb.
Boar's Head Tavern Ham - $12.99/lb.

The store brand is only about a dollar less.

-Rob