Anyone buy grass fed beef online?

**nags** · 01-09-2013, 08:18 PM

I'm sick of paying as much as I do at Whole Foods and looking for a place online. I found a few sites but the prices were no better and I'd like to buy from somewhere someone can recommend me rather than buying meat from a totally random place.

Thanks

**lastson** · 01-09-2013, 10:37 PM

I would think it would be just as bad online with shipping etc..

Look for a local farm, or butcher they should be able to point you in the right direction.

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**DannyG** · 01-09-2013, 10:53 PM

I buy quite often and so far the best online source for me has been US Wellness meats. I'm not sure on the price difference between them and whole foods but I'm sure they are a little cheaper. Here is a link...http://www.grasslandbeef.com/StoreFront.bok
Also here is a link to all of the AGA certified producers. Not sure where in South FL you live in but you should have a local farmer in the area. I found one about 2 hours away that is willing to drive down to my area. I buy quarter cows once in a while because you only pay about 4 bucks a pound or so.

**DannyG** · 01-09-2013, 10:54 PM

Forgot to post the second link...
http://www.americangrassfed.org/producer-profiles/

**nags** · 01-10-2013, 01:08 PM

Awesome. Thanks for the links. Will check them out as soon as I get home.

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**Friendly Milkshake** · 01-10-2013, 06:01 PM

no local farms around you? florida had amish where i lived before

**nags** · 01-10-2013, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by Friendly Milkshake

no local farms around you? florida had amish where i lived before

I've never known where to look before. I've never heard of Amish people down here in S. Florida. I'm in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area

**athleticvanessa** · 01-11-2013, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by nags

I'm sick of paying as much as I do at Whole Foods and looking for a place online. I found a few sites but the prices were no better and I'd like to buy from somewhere someone can recommend me rather than buying meat from a totally random place.

Thanks

I don't mind the prices of WF grass fed beef, but maybe that's because I'm always buying their bison, so it's a relief when I grab some beef! lol
Last year I visited a local farm up in the northern part of my state that sold grass fed beef and other meats as well as RAW milk/colostrum. The beef was great quality and only $6/lb, sometimes your neighborhood grocery store kroger/albertsons has decent priced grass fed, but you gotta grab it on sell otherwise it's the same price as WF.

**tammyp** · 01-11-2013, 05:24 AM

find a local farm. i pay 5.5o a lb for grass fed ground, which isnt ant different than reg ground really. and i live in the boonies....so if i can find it...

**lastson** · 01-11-2013, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by nags

I've never known where to look before. I've never heard of Amish people down here in S. Florida. I'm in the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami area

Yea, I don't think they are that far south, more middle and northern Florida as I recall

**nags** · 01-11-2013, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by athleticvanessa

I don't mind the prices of WF grass fed beef, but maybe that's because I'm always buying their bison, so it's a relief when I grab some beef! lol
Last year I visited a local farm up in the northern part of my state that sold grass fed beef and other meats as well as RAW milk/colostrum. The beef was great quality and only $6/lb, sometimes your neighborhood grocery store kroger/albertsons has decent priced grass fed, but you gotta grab it on sell otherwise it's the same price as WF.

What's your reasoning for bison over beef?

**nags** · 01-11-2013, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by DannyG

Forgot to post the second link...
http://www.americangrassfed.org/producer-profiles/

Only 3 in Florida and NOWHERE near me. Closest one being about 6hrs North.

**nags** · 01-11-2013, 08:38 PM

So I searched all day. Finally found an awesome looking place that's 2hrs from me that delivers down here every other week. Email them back and forth finally getting the price list. $2 more a pound than I'm paying at Whole Foods. At 3lbs a day that I eat, that ain't gonna cut it!

**DannyG** · 01-12-2013, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by nags

Only 3 in Florida and NOWHERE near me. Closest one being about 6hrs North.

So many sources out there. Try this one...

http://www.eatwild.com/products/florida.html

**nags** · 01-12-2013, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by DannyG

So many sources out there. Try this one...

http://www.eatwild.com/products/florida.html

That's the site I ended up using. The closest one to me is the one I posted about. Going to check some of the others and see if they deliver all the way down here.

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**Flex500** · 01-15-2013, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by nags

So I searched all day. Finally found an awesome looking place that's 2hrs from me that delivers down here every other week. Email them back and forth finally getting the price list. $2 more a pound than I'm paying at Whole Foods. At 3lbs a day that I eat, that ain't gonna cut it!

you are eating 3lbs a day of beef? Just out of curiosity why so much? To save some money why not replace those calories with something else?

That's not an attacking post I love beef so I don't mean it in a bad way...more of a cost way.

**nags** · 01-15-2013, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Flex500

you are eating 3lbs a day of beef? Just out of curiosity why so much? To save some money why not replace those calories with something else?

That's not an attacking post I love beef so I don't mean it in a bad way...more of a cost way.

Several reasons. I was doing lots of fish and chicken and I kept losing weight and right now I'm really trying to bulk. I really don't like chicken and fish enough to eat enough of it to bulk. When I started doing this much beef I wasn't doing grass fed so it was only like $2.99/lb and was nice and cheap. I was eating so much of it that I decided I really should go grass fed in an attempt to make it as healthy as possible.

Lastly... It just tastes so good. Especially the way I cook it.

**MiamiGreek** · 05-19-2013, 05:44 PM

Probably your best bet will be https://www.facebook.com/RawFeedingMiami The business concentrates on raw meat for pets (conventional and pastured), but gets wholesale pricing for pastured meats from White Oak Pastures in Georgia. Cheapest I've found. I think White Oaks is cheapest because they have their own slaughter facility, butcher shop, and can distribute through the normal industrial food system. You'll find White Oak meats at all the high end restaurants in town; most high end restaurants won't pay the higher costs for pastured meat from Florida. Raw Feeding Miami's pickups are in Miami Shores on the weekends and they have customers who bring others' orders to areas of Broward.

(I have not tried them yet--mostly due to my personal difficulty of getting there. I've been buying from an Amish food club for 5-6 years that delivers to multiple places in Miami and Weston. These Amish have the largest selection around and do things right in every area. It's the shipping that pushes their costs higher than Raw Feeding Miami. You can find the Amish on the site below.

For the remainder of the sources in South Florida, see: http://localfoodsouthflorida.org/dairyeggsmeat.html You can also find Florida farmers on the site from whom you buy a whole cow (or a portion of) that can get the meat delivered to you easily--there are some distributors that make regular deliveries to South Florida.

One thing: pastured/grass fed/grass finished beef is pretty cut and dry, but watch out for poultry and eggs. Many do pastured, but still feed GMO and soy-based feeds. Always ask.