Does anyone know anywhere in plano allen mckinney area that has brisket on sale? or something under 5 per pound?

Target

Albertsons 3.99

Brisket prices have gone beyond ridiculous.

I'll be plucking like a old hen before long,have gone to pork and yard bird. I know the drought has hurt but beef has gone out of sight thanks to the ethanol hiking corn prices. It's a joke. Diesel prices are down but food is getting higher.

I grew up on pulled pork in Arkansas. I never have caught on to brisket over pork. I'll eat brisket but it's not my favorite. I'm having leftover sliced pork loin tonight. It's $1.99 at Kroger about once a month. I keep an extra one in the freezer. I'll slice a few boneless pork chops off them and roast some.

yeah I refuse to spend 4.99 per pound. I love brisket, and would smoke one ever weekend if I could. With that said, as soon as I see them go on sale, I will be buying 3 or 4 of them.

I started making pulled pork about 3 years ago. Much better than brisket and cheaper now for sure. I only buy briskets for making into burger when I can get the on sale around a holiday. You have to remember that every carcass has only 2 briskets but they can have up to 30 ribeyes, 24 t-bones, 12 sirloins depending on how thick they are cut.

I remember 99 cent per pound on sale

The food ads come out on Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle. HEB has prime brisket on sale fot $3.99, and Kroger has pork butts on for $1.49.

Albertsons has "Sirloin" pork roasts for $1.49 too.

I used to sell them .69 back in the early 90`s when I worked for winn dixe.

Do any of you know of another cut besides brisket that would get close to comparing?

There was once a shack in smithville that smoked a lot of different cuts of beef. I'd stop by every time I was in the area and get a T bone before it was done.

Chuck roast, but again, you're looking at ~$5/lb.

Paid $1.33 for some nearly out of date pork butts the other day, was quite happy. I've seen brisket (in Lubbock) recently for as little as $3.68, but that's still WAY to high.

To the guy above, corn prices are way down/ethanol production has little to do with the prices. The 2011-2014 drought that killed/led to massive herd reductions is much more to blame.

Feeders are off from their high for the year. Help might be on the way.

SAMs and Cosco. Most of the time you can't find a brisket graded prime, mostly choice and select. I'd go choice unless the prime is too good to pass up. The drought killed the cattle market. Going to take a few years to recover. On the pork sub.---well pork is pork, and beef is Texas.

Spoke to a rancher not long ago who is building his herd up after selling out in 2011. he is paying a high price for his cows but according to him, beef prices are expected to be high for the next 3 years.
Course pork is not cheap if you watch the price of bacon.

Been getting bacon on sale for 2.00 to $2.50 for a 12 oz package for the last several weeks at Minyards and other places for the last two or three months. Check the Wednesday ads. Like Oxner, I was was born and raised in the solid South (Tennessee) and always had pork. Brisket is good, but pulled pork and ribs are preferred, especially with southern cole slaw and BBQ beans.

Smoke a pork butt to an internal temp of 203. Make pulled pork sandwiches out of that. You'll thank me later.

Had it last night. I used the pan drippings to make my sauce with vinegar and cayenne.

I bought a prime brisket last night at Costco for $4.39/lb. All they had were prime briskets but most of the time they have choice and prime.

Clod

$3.99# for prime at Costco in Houston a few days ago. Was over $4 everywhere else for choice or select.

But gas is cheap... LOL

I bought one two weeks and it was marked at 3.79 per pound. I complained to the meat market manager and dropped the price to 1.99 per pound. I also refuse to pay 4.00 per pound for meat that takes all day and night to make tender.

Sounds like Carolina type sauce. What else goes in it?

walmart had them 2.59 a few weeks ago, now they are 3.29 so check them out. That seems a lot more reasonable tha $4 a pound.

X2 Tri-tips also

heck I guess I have to just be patient and wait for the next holiday.

dang it ... every time I see this thread come back up to the top of the list, I get excited thinking someone is posting where brisket might be on sale ... speaking of, what is the next holiday that the stores might put brisket on sale??? Maybe Saint Patrick's day, Easter, others?

Boy, that's another cut of meat that's gotten outrageous. My wife and I used to do one of those a week, it was really easy to grill them so the thin side was medium for her, thick side was rare-med rare for me. Used to be able to pick up a good sized one for 5-6 bucks and fill the both of us.

Then some fruit loop on the cooking channel did a show on them, and they got popular.

Yep,just like skirts,they used to be ground into hamburger, now everybody uses them.

It's not the ethanol that's raised prices, it's the drought. Lots of ranchers including us sold off a couple years ago due to having to feed them out of the back of a truck.

After Easter we should see a little relief on beef prices, The Primal's, re; ribeye, strips and tenderloin have seen big drops after the holidays but will begin to rise again as we move into summer..

Pork is your best bargain right now, looks like the new Texas BBQ will be Carolina Bone In Pork Butt !!!

Butts are on sale at HEB this week for 97cents per pound.

Kroger 2.99 per lb

They are showing a weakening market cause everybody quit buying them cause of high price.

Getem now, they will head back up the warmer the weather gets.

I've got 250 cases Swift Choice Briskets I can sell for 3.17lb but you gotta be one of my customers...sorry

ok I am putting this back at the top because I am really getting the itch to make one this weekend

What kind of brisket are you looking at for $5 a pound?

I haven't seen any that hi... except the market trimmed ones and I would never buy that.

anything 2.99 or less is what I am looking for. I refuse to pay higher

Good luck! I keep a close eye on the HEB fliers in our area and haven't seen brisket on sale in months.

I believe they were on sale around me before easter, 2.97 a lb.

I'm on their email flyer list now, watching....

yep, I get email updates every week or couple times a week ... lots of pork on sale almost weekly ... but whatever became of the .99/lb packer briskets from years gone by? I should have bought a couple hundred and put in the freezer, and sell them now for $4/pound money maker!

Sure do miss them as well!

I used to get them 2-3 years ago at Target @ $.99/#, plus $3 off coupon, plus 10% employees discount, plus 5% Red Card discount, plus 5% Parmacy reward disc.
Man I miss $5 brisket!

Went to HEB on sunday, packer briskets were still $2.97 a pound.

The neighborhood walmart by my house in allen had them yesterday at 2.99 per lb. there were only 2 left

Todays Albertsons add has Packer Trimmed Beef Brisket for $2.99 lb Fri-Sun, limit 1. Kroger has Pork ribs and Pork Butt Roast's for $.99 lb. all week. Time to go shopping.