I am pretty new at homesteading but I am in it for the ability to not buy from a supermakret that is recalling the chemically processed food all the time and in some case the financial freedom. I am raising pigs and a cow this year, but until then I am grinding local stores sale priced meats. I got a ton of pork for $1.28- $1.69 depending on the cut per pound. So I sliced the bone off and made a stock with the bones for some ham and bean soup. I cut the meat up into cubes and put it in a hand grinder. Got the hand grinder on ebay for $10 including attachments for cheese and vegetables. But the meat grinder was what I wanted. Also got another one with just the meat grinder for $5 off ebay as a spare. (I lose things lol). Spent a couple hours grinding and made some of t he best sausage I had ever eaten. I did not even slice off any fat and my goodness it still has literally zero grease. I have to add water or butter to the skillet to fry it up. It is like premium expensive sausage.
Plan on trying out the wheat grinding in the next couple weeks so that should be fun. But the sausage was easy.
