The impact of the cost of food to your food spending habits?

Every few weeks HEB and Kroger take turns running a four 12-packs for $13 or $14 sale, and that is when you stock up. Kroger usually lets you mix and match across all brands and varieties, HEB usually makes you stick to the varieties of just one brand.

 

Rocking the cargo shorts and Tevas. 90’s me approves

 

Double post. I love lamp

 

Not sure what the 12 pk of other soda prices are, but you can get a 24 pk of Coke Zero 24 at Walmart (or neighborhood Walmart) for about $13.

 

That's not really a good price

 

That's just your opinion, man....

 

Much the same way my Grandfather did it decades ago except with much larger hogs.


Content that some may not be comfortable with.

Spoiler

Try to do the processing on a cool day if possible.

My grandfather had something that might have been called a sled. Basically a trailer without wheels
that was pulled behind a tractor and was like a huge overgrown heavy duty pallet. Bring the hog in on the
sled.

Have water heated in a kettle and then pour the water over the hog to wash off dirt and make it easier to scrape off
bristles/hair. Finish one side then flip the hog and do the same on the other side. Galvanized buckets ruled back then, so there were no concerns about plastic buckets not being happy with hot water.

Position the hog under a stout tree branch with a pulley & rope (or similar) already setup.

A Single Tree is/was a solid piece of wood maybe 3' feet long. It had a ring or similar in the middle and a hook
on each end. Insert a hook on each back leg in the area of the ankle - Achilles. Attach the rope or chain to
the ring in the center of the Single Tree and then pull the hog up as needed.

Start from the top as shown in the picture and let gravity help rather than start from the bottom and fight gravity.

When it came time to open the hog up, have a large washtub or two ready to catch the internal organs.

Then start separating the hog into smaller sections to continue the butchering process.