Here's the Beef

Early in our marriage we had six children, and I worked outside of our home.

To feed our large family, we would buy a load of meat (usually a side of beef) from the butcher. Of course, we received some less than desirable cuts of meat, so we'd get creative. For example, we'd take several pounds of ground beef and make two or three large meat loaves to freeze raw. We'd also make large batches of meatballs (about 80 at one time) and freeze those too. Then we mounted a hamburger press on a board and let the kids take the rest of the ground beef to make loads of hamburgers - we separated them with waxed paper to keep them from sticking together. Buying in bulk and working together fed us well and saved us lots of money.