Keystone Meats is really good, has 5 year Best By dates and comes in 28 oz and 14.5 oz cans. Beef, Pork, chicken, turkey and ground beef all fully cooked.
I'm on a fixed income and buy a couple of cans each week, got a pretty good stash built up.
Canning your own is much cheaper, but the initial investment of the canner and supplies is expensive. If you want to put up a lot of meat (and other foods), I would suggest learning to can.
I canned 15 pints of chicken breasts yesterday to add to my supplies. I have canned chicken breasts, beef chunks (from a cut you would roast), hamburger, meatloaf, brisket chunks (my absolute favorite!!), pork shoulder, pork breakfast sausage, deer. I have hundreds of jars of shelf stable meat, that I have done myself, I know what's in them (meat and sometimes salt for most).
It is great when you can find a sale on meat and can what you get. I usually just go to Sam's and buy meat by the case and spend a day canning, cases are usually around 60-80 lbs. A pint jar holds roughly 1 lb of meat and a quart jar holds 2 lbs.
There are some great channels on YouTube for canning if anyone is interested.
Protein is most important. Buy canned meat.
Keystone Meats is really good, has 5 year Best By dates and comes in 28 oz and 14.5 oz cans. Beef, Pork, chicken, turkey and ground beef all fully cooked.
I'm on a fixed income and buy a couple of cans each week, got a pretty good stash built up.
Canning your own is much cheaper, but the initial investment of the canner and supplies is expensive. If you want to put up a lot of meat (and other foods), I would suggest learning to can.
I canned 15 pints of chicken breasts yesterday to add to my supplies. I have canned chicken breasts, beef chunks (from a cut you would roast), hamburger, meatloaf, brisket chunks (my absolute favorite!!), pork shoulder, pork breakfast sausage, deer. I have hundreds of jars of shelf stable meat, that I have done myself, I know what's in them (meat and sometimes salt for most).
It is great when you can find a sale on meat and can what you get. I usually just go to Sam's and buy meat by the case and spend a day canning, cases are usually around 60-80 lbs. A pint jar holds roughly 1 lb of meat and a quart jar holds 2 lbs.
There are some great channels on YouTube for canning if anyone is interested.
60-80 lbs! That's a looong day. Multiple canners?
Oh yeah! I have 3, but 2 going at once is about a I can handle. :)