Slow Cooked Ox Cheek

I honestly don't know what you are on about. I live about an hour from Boston. You can most certainly buy oxcheek. Meat may be more expensive than other items, but seriously, are you complaining about a meat recipe not fitting what you need? look at a different meat then.

But as for ox cheek in Chicopee, you can get it at walmart (first result in a google search, btw) It's 4.32 a lb.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rumba-Meats-Beef-Cheek-Meat-Cachete-de-Res-1-5-3-0-lb/22282322?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5278&adid=2222222227722282322_117755028669_12420145346&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=501107745824&wl4=pla-293946777986&wl5=1014832&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=22282322&wl13=5278&veh=sem_LIA&gclid=CjwKCAjw_tWRBhAwEiwALxFPoeYcWlkIgBEYq8HLpB9U3KBAcTBMPjYhLz3Bv-jJmyzYOKaygEVerBoCUfEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

You really come across as the person who complains about someone eating a donut when you are on a diet.

I would try Ox Cheeks if they were available. Walmart doesn’t build in city and Boston chains cater to the higher quality cuts. My request was for an alternative choice because I think the recipe sounds good. I happen to hate donuts and rarely eat sweets in general. Also dieting to lose weight doesn’t work and it’s unhealthy. I simply wish that bloggers would consider offering dishes using affordable ingredients. There are so many people barely scraping by that are stretched thin trying to supply nutritious meals to their families. You know the cost of living in city is higher. But not everybody living there is upper middle class or rich. Even now we have moved to the suburbs, food costs are still very high. Inflation and lack of supplies have been limited. I have some lamb pieces in the freezer from my last delivery from our.Meat CSA. I think I will try this recipe with that. They aren’t as tender as the usual cuts of lamb. So I think it’s worth trying. We actually signed up for the odd cuts of meat. Most of them adapt well to my Slow Cookers and Instant Pot. Soups and stews are the backbone of my meal planning in winter. You are nearer the center of the state so I imagine Walmart and Costco, are probably nearby. Even Shaw’s who used to be a relatively less expensive chain, are very high priced. We will keep the Meat CSA, and try the farmers market here or joining a produce CSA for the summer. And employ more vegetarian meals. I stock grains, beans, and cereals through Amazon. They have wide availability and usually better prices than these markets. Once prices go up the usually stay up and people learn to live with it. I’m more or less resigned that this is permanent. I really miss my community garden. And the farm where I grew up with fresh chicken, eggs, and pork. I pig was enough meat to supply plenty of food for 1 year. We had huge garden, and grew potatoes as a cash crop. That gave us the unsaleable imperfect, oddly shaped, and all the little gourmet sized potatoes that were unsaleable back then. We ate potatoes every day and only needed to buy in July and August. I grew up poor, my Father had the farm and 2 jobs, just to keep us fed and clothed. But we were happy. But it gives me an appreciation for the poor and low salaried because I know what they are going through. The only beef purchased was hamburger and chicken between egg laying and the Fall. But with hamburger at 9 bucks a lb across the chains here it’s a luxury item here and now. I really was asking for meat alternatives, and if she could reach out to her friend fellow bloggers to help by working up recipes that are based on inexpensive ingredients and stretching meats further. At least the prices might finally cause people to eat properly sized meat portions. It will be healthier in the long run. I just bought a large bag of natural unsalted beef jerky on Amazon, to use for flavoring soups. 6lbs for the price of 2 fresh bottom round pieces. The flavor gets much stronger so less is needed. I really wish Walmart had a shopping app that would deliver this far. I have heard their prices are better. So please don’t consider me a complainer. I still empathize with the low income and the poor, I try to speak up for them, when things are tough. Even food pantries get short of food and essentials because donations fall off. In 2008 we were living on 1 salary and it was much lower so we were struggling and qualified for a pantry assistance program. At 1st it was great, 3 full bags of food and some fresh vegetable, along with limited expired bakery goods. It really helped. It as the recession intensified, ore and more people were being laid off or furloughed. The pantry had to reduce shares to provide for more and more people, people with families. Shares dropped to 2 bags, no extras, because there was no one to transport them. Then down to 1 bag. We sat down and worked things up, and made the decision to become vegetarians and I signed up with 5 agencies. That way we could forego our share of food and let it go to others. They made us keep the card, in case the temp market fell through and we needed help again. I had been seeking a job for months, in a bear (bare) market. But while the pay was low but generally I land 40° temp positions and we were getting by. Over the years my husbands salary has gone up considerably so we are managing between his salary and my Social Security. But can you see that l identify with those in need. I’m not complaining, I’m doing what I can for them, trying to help them. During the Great Depression of the30’s, many cookbooks were written to help the more make healthy meals with the basic supplies they could manage to get. We need more of that right now and far fewer expensive cookbooks by celebrity chef’s using only the most expensive cuts of meat and exclusively expensive ingredients. Bloggers are ideally placed to help with this. Their income depends on introducing dishes that get pinned, downloaded or printed out. So if they could formulate 2 out of 5 economical recipes a week it would be a big help. Higher downloads equal more money. Even many of the poor have cell phones. Pinterest is a free app, accessible to anyone. I’m just trying to level the playing field for everyone.