I made my own ground beef...and it came out good!

Pelusa214 · August 2009

I'm so excited! Now I can finally give DD ground beef without feeling like I'm poisoning her (once you see Fast Food Nation, you just can't go back! LOL). It was soooo easy. I think I'll try to grind lamb next.

I love my KitchenAid Big Smile

Myheart1297 · August 2009

What is the difference between what you made and what they sell at the supermarket in the meat section?

BabyS2008 · August 2009

Well, I poisoned my son with formula, might as well give him supermarket ground beef too. =/

anna7602 · August 2009

Is it really better than the hormone-free, antibiotic-free and whatever else-free ground beef at places like Whole Foods? I don't understand what the difference is in the grinding. Unless you mean you raised the animal yourself, slaughtered it and made ground beef out of it?

mom2be:)2008 · August 2009

BabyS2008:
Well, I poisoned my son with formula, might as well give him supermarket ground beef too. =/

LOL same here. Surprise

buttahbear · August 2009

Yeah, I wish I had time for that. Sorry but it's open the package and cook it up for me.

mom2be:)2008 · August 2009

I'm still trying to figure out what you mean by "made it yourself". Did you raise the animal and slaughter it? Or do you mean, you bought a chunk of meat and ground it yourself? Because I would think it would still be equally "bad" (whatever that means) if you just did that.

Pelusa214 · August 2009

BabyS2008:
Well, I poisoned my son with formula, might as well give him supermarket ground beef too. =/

Don't flame! I said that kind of tongue-in-cheek! If you ever saw Fast Food Nation, you'd understand what I mean....the ground beef in supermarkets is basically made from the leftover scraps of trimmings for the whole cuts of meat. It's all thrown into one big grinder, so you're getting meat from like 100's of cows all in one pack of meat. That's why when they have a recall due to e. coli, it's always ground beef. I know at my supermarket, there's a sign over the ground beef that says "product of USA and Canada", which means there is meat in there from cows from all over. I just feel better about the e.coli thing & stuff if I know it was ground from a whole cut.

BTW my DD is also "poisoned" with formula.

618mom22boys · August 2009

Pelusa214:

BabyS2008:
Well, I poisoned my son with formula, might as well give him supermarket ground beef too. =/

Don't flame! I said that kind of tongue-in-cheek! If you ever saw Fast Food Nation, you'd understand what I mean....the ground beef in supermarkets is basically made from the leftover scraps of trimmings for the whole cuts of meat. It's all thrown into one big grinder, so you're getting meat from like 100's of cows all in one pack of meat. That's why when they have a recall due to e. coli, it's always ground beef. I know at my supermarket, there's a sign over the ground beef that says "product of USA and Canada", which means there is meat in there from cows from all over. I just feel better about the e.coli thing & stuff if I know it was ground from a whole cut.

BTW my DD is also "poisoned" with formula.

I take it you don't eat hot dogs or certain lunch meats either?

Pelusa214 · August 2009

I'm more concerned about DD than me. It's too late for me. But no, I don't feed her lunch meat or hot dogs. Does that make me uptight enough for you?

anna7602 · August 2009

I still want to know if what you're saying also applies to organic meat sold at health food stores.

Pelusa214 · August 2009

anna7602:
I still want to know if what you're saying also applies to organic meat sold at health food stores.

I'm really not sure, to be honest. The nearest Whole Foods is an hour away from me, so I don't really have another option besides the supermarket. I would imagine being organic wouldn't necessarily change the way they make the ground beef (scraps & trimmings), but I would also think that if it came from an organic farm, it would be a smaller-scale operation & you wouldn't have trimmings from like thousands of cows in one facility all thrown in together to be ground. I suppose you'd have to ask the market or check in to the company.

Toosdai · August 2009

If you're so worried about E.coli - why even feed the child beef in the first place?

My takeaway from meat recalls isn't to fire up the KitchenAid but rather stop eating meat. :

618mom22boys · August 2009

Toosdai:

If you're so worried about E.coli - why even feed the child beef in the first place?

My takeaway from meat recalls isn't to fire up the KitchenAid but rather stop eating meat. :

How often are there meat recalls anyways?? We eat ground beef 4-5 times a week and we have never had any problems with meat recalls.

Pelusa214 · August 2009

Why is this such a big deal? I took a whole cut of meat & ground it in my KitchenAid to make tacos. I was excited it worked. So I feel better giving my kid something I ground myself than not knowing what kind of meat I'm buying & where it came from. I tried something new & was excited that it worked. Sorry if that offends you.

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