colonel00
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- Jun 3, 2010
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- Shawnee, KS
So last Saturday I made a run to Restraunt Depot and the local grocery store and came back with a good stash of meat and cheese to make up some deli meat and sliced cheese.
The grocery store had rump roast on sale so I loaded up and cooked some up following Dr BBQ's italian beef recipe. If you haven't tried this, I highly recommend it. Now, following the recipe, this was cooked in the oven but could easily be done on the grill or smoker at higher temps.
Once done, the meat was wrapped and chilled in the fridge overnight to be sliced and finished the next day.
I also picked up a whole corned brisket from RD so I threw some on the UDS for pastrami and crocked some corned beef.
^^^I made it really peppery as I was planning to slice it thin and I knew I would lose some of the rub.
While the beef was cooking I sliced up the cheese.
I also sliced up all the turkey. I admit, this was the cheap route and I did not cook it but for what I got, it was money and time well spent.
Poor slicer got a workout and this was only halfway through.
Finished and sliced pastrami.
And here is the whole haul at the end of the day.
In all I think I spent $80 or a little more but I am set with meat and cheese to last me for quite some time. If you have a slicer or know someone that does, this is by far the best way to save money on lunch meat. RD carries the exact same stuff you get at the grocery store deli and you can save a couple dollars a pound by doing the work yourself. In all I have 5lbs of provolone, 5lbs of muenster, 3lbs of colby jack, 8lbs of kettle fried turkey breast, probably 3-4lbs each of pastrami and corned beef and probably 4-5lbs of Italian beef. Off the top of my head I don't know what current deli prices would be but I wouldn't be surprised if I paid close to half of what a deli would charge. Now I just hope my vacuum sealer is up to the challenge.
As a bonus, I manged to keep all of my finger tips too :thumb:
The grocery store had rump roast on sale so I loaded up and cooked some up following Dr BBQ's italian beef recipe. If you haven't tried this, I highly recommend it. Now, following the recipe, this was cooked in the oven but could easily be done on the grill or smoker at higher temps.
Once done, the meat was wrapped and chilled in the fridge overnight to be sliced and finished the next day.
I also picked up a whole corned brisket from RD so I threw some on the UDS for pastrami and crocked some corned beef.
^^^I made it really peppery as I was planning to slice it thin and I knew I would lose some of the rub.
While the beef was cooking I sliced up the cheese.
I also sliced up all the turkey. I admit, this was the cheap route and I did not cook it but for what I got, it was money and time well spent.
Poor slicer got a workout and this was only halfway through.
Finished and sliced pastrami.
And here is the whole haul at the end of the day.
In all I think I spent $80 or a little more but I am set with meat and cheese to last me for quite some time. If you have a slicer or know someone that does, this is by far the best way to save money on lunch meat. RD carries the exact same stuff you get at the grocery store deli and you can save a couple dollars a pound by doing the work yourself. In all I have 5lbs of provolone, 5lbs of muenster, 3lbs of colby jack, 8lbs of kettle fried turkey breast, probably 3-4lbs each of pastrami and corned beef and probably 4-5lbs of Italian beef. Off the top of my head I don't know what current deli prices would be but I wouldn't be surprised if I paid close to half of what a deli would charge. Now I just hope my vacuum sealer is up to the challenge.
As a bonus, I manged to keep all of my finger tips too :thumb: