Perpetual Ruminations

Filling The Freezer

I'm not sure how I managed to miss a day blogging here, but I did; I missed yesterday. It was a pretty busy day, we went shopping in a town about an hour's drive from us, visiting multiple stores

We also drove over to Sunnybrook Park since we were in town, and let the dogs get some exercise while we strolled around the park. The park was empty, but the campground still had a half dozen die-hard campers.

Today, we headed out in the opposite direction, towards Fergus Falls. About an hour's drive brought us to the Amor Pork Store, a small store in the middle of nowhere that sells pork products from the Amor Pork Farm across the highway.

We picked up a few things while we were there, but our main reason for driving over was to order a whole pork to fill the freezer for the winter. It will cost us $3.50 per pound for the pork, including all processing fees. The price also includes smoking all four of the hams and the bacon, as well as breakfast sausage links and patties. We ordered one-third of the trimmings as links, one-third as patties, and one-third as plain ground pork.

Now, we have two weeks, approximately, to get the freezer emptied; it's not quite half full, but if we clean out the refrigerator freezer and organize it, everything in the chest freezer should fit. With two weeks to consume some of it, I don't foresee any problems. We also found we can buy a whole beef chuck roll (it's the entire boneless front shoulder) for $5.50 per pound; we just have to cut it up ourselves, which isn't a big deal. We could even grind our own berger, but they also sell frozen, one and a half pound packs of ground beef for the same price.