How I save money being animal-based

How I save money eating animal-based…

Many people think it must be super expensive to eat in a more animal-based way, but what I have found is my food bills are slightly less not more.  One big reason for this (for me anyway) is that I was a complete health-freak before, meaning I was buying all the ‘superfoods’ from all over the world and a good deal of my food came from health foods shops too.  So, for me, eating nut-butters, nut-milks, avocados, and many other weird and wonderful expensive foods daily I’ve noticed now things are cheaper (and with a lot less airmiles) for me now.

However, I have noticed in the short time I’ve been eating this way the price of animal-based foods going up all the time, so here’s what I am doing to combat that…

• Raising my own animals for future meat (I currently have sheep and hopefully sometime soon will have cows).  I already had my own chickens, but now I have ducks and geese too (although the geese are just guard-geese, not for meat).
• I buy what I can from local friends and farmers.
• I buy in bulk and anything that’s been reduced from Makro (a wholesaler in the big city that stocks Portuguese meats among many other things).
• Everything else I buy from my local butcher and not supermarkets.  It may seem cheaper in the supermarket, but the meat often has tons of water in it  (as well as lots of other nasties)!
• I eat a lot of organ meats as these are WAY cheaper and more nutrient dense.
• I mix minced beef heart with minced muscle meat of the cow to reduce the price of burgers and bakes etc.
• Whenever there is a special offer on anything meat, dairy or fish as buy as much of it as I can and freeze it for later.
• I make my own tallow from the beef fat from the butcher.
• I make pork scratchings for gatherings and friends from the skin from the butcher (I don’t really eat pork myself).
• I make my own bone broth (and sell some too, so this helps costs) from scraps from the butcher.
• I also make pemmican and other dried meat snacks (when not in a histamine flare).
• I’m now making SIBO / L. Reutri yogurts, which have helped my digestive system a lot and are the only dairy I can tolerate.
• Nothing goes to waste, I find a way to use up everything animal-based item that comes into this house! And when I have my own meat from my own animals I intend to eat nose to tail!
• I grow as much as I can to feed the animals I have.
• I get a HUGE bag of scraps from the butcher eat week for the dogs (feeding them for at least 3 days of the week on their natural , nutrient dense diet, which also saves me 3 days of dog food costs.

Next, I want to learn how to make less desirable cuts of meat (which are cheaper) nicer to eat.  I don’t want to waste any part of any animal that’s died to help me thrive.  Anyone got any tips/links/resources on this?  Or do you have any ways you are saving money when eating in a more animal-based way?