John Ewoldt Frugal Food Ideas

The Strib's John Ewoldt has an article today on frugal food ideas. He interviews frugal folks who give their 5 best frugal food tips. Surprisingly (to me), a couple people suggested buying meat by the half side. One woman buys half a cow for about $1.75 per lb. -- pretty good deal. We've been thinking about doing this for reasons both frugal and healthful -- we'd like to be able to afford quality beef, and we'd like to avoid all of the hormones and etc. that most processed meat contains. Unfortunately, Minnesota grass-fed beef doesn't come cheap. But I'll keep looking.