The Cost of Meat in Rural Colombia | Butcher Shop Prices | Cost of Living 2024

[@rudolfspees2490]

Thanks sara nice informatie

[@SaraBurdick]

you are welcome!

[@chiefenumclaw7960]

Gracias!

[@SaraBurdick]

con gusto

[@berg8970]

Thank you so much for posting this video. Muchas gracias.

[@SaraBurdick]

your welcome, hope it helps!

[@berg8970]

@@SaraBurdick Ayuda mucho. Gracias

[@anonmon6236]

The beef is also good in the Monteria region. But yeah it can be pretty bad depending on the region.

[@SaraBurdick]

ooh good to know! yea we mostly eat pork because it is so hilly here.. not sure I have ever had great beef here.

[@Spenglish]

Hey Sara. In Colombia I had a specialty meat shop that has ribeye steaks because that other meat was too tough. Wings just became popular there in the last 3 years and the prices were really low but for other things the price wasn’t a huge difference but you can by brown eggs and the chicken with yellow skin which is organic for Colombia at the same price as non organic in america. Colombia doesn’t have an organic section. Most of it is organic but it’s changing. They separate the white chicken and the yellow chicken. That’s what I saw in Ibague.

[@SaraBurdick]

oh interesting. I will have to ask the butcher to see if they have ribeye! we are there so much now, he knows us. I notice in Medellin and the bigger cities they are into the organic, non organic. I think eventually I will have meat chickens, at least then I know what they eat! It is interesting how things change here!

[@gadgetgrader]

How is the ribeye there?

[@SaraBurdick]

@@gadgetgrader I have not had a ribeye here...

[@Spenglish]

@@gadgetgrader they were tender but much smaller maybe to keep the price down. They weren’t dirt cheap. Maybe 25% cheaper than the USA. The other meat is so tough it’s worth it. The only other option for something tender was frozen and there something off with that taste but I remember getting a nice ribeye in a Restaurant for what equated to $10

[@Lacause237]

I love your videos sooo Much my dear. Please can you take us to the market so we can have more of the local experience in the countryside?! I’m working my way to move to Colombia too

[@SaraBurdick]

thank you so much. I will do a video of the markets.. however they are more like shops instead of markets! but i will film it.

[@griseldaoliva618]

@@SaraBurdick Yes Sara, I really enjoyed the shopping trip a few weeks ago , and you started your day by taking the moto taxi!!!

[@SaraBurdick]

@@griseldaoliva618 thank you! I will try to make more videos like that! I am planning on visiting a few pueblos around here too.

[@Luojanhelmi]

Thanks Sara. By butcher do you mean the chain Frigorodeo aswell?

[@SaraBurdick]

i dont understand this word..Frigorodeo ?

[@Luojanhelmi]

@@SaraBurdick Ok. It seems to have shops only in Sta.Marta, Cienaga and Barranquilla. I thought it was nationwide

[@SaraBurdick]

@@Luojanhelmi ahh ok thats why I have never heard of it. The only chain we have is D1.

[@pattipetersen2323]

I didn't know about flat land making a difference in the texture of the meat. One other thing. the stench in Kettleman City may have been due to hormones. But I think the animals are sentient beings and I honestly believe they're stressed out and the anxiety is what the stench is. I can't help but think this.

[@SaraBurdick]

yep! i had no idea either.. i completely agree with the cows being stressed out!

[@jeffreymore6799]

The cost of everything here is so over inflated you can't even begin to compare in my opinion. It's gotten so bad that you just purchase necessities and your over budget. Buying pork belly there is reasonable you should learn how to make Lard from the fat Sara using lard is so much more healthy and you can actually store meats or preserve them within the lard.

[@SaraBurdick]

yea, I cant even imagine how much things cost now. I saved the grease, but I def need to look into making lard! Thanks, I never thought of that, but I remember as a kid we always had lard around, we also butchered our own hogs.

[@jeffreymore6799]

@@SaraBurdick there are KZbin videos on the process of making lard from the fat. It's amazing how many younger people find the word lard revolting and yet they don't do the research on oils that they use for cooking even simple things like eggs.

[@SaraBurdick]

@@jeffreymore6799 haha yep! I would rather lard than oil for sure! I will look it up!

[@MaritzaConrrado]

Ponga subtitulos en español por favor

[@griseldaoliva618]

El icono de configuration puede escojer español

[@SaraBurdick]

@@griseldaoliva618 siii! 👆👆

[@octonion]

I buy beef, lamb and chicken raised without hormones and antibiotics. Beef and lamb are grass fed. The price of beef depends on type and cut. Ground beef costs me 6USD/lb and NY strip steak 22USD/lb. Don't recall price of lamb. For chicken I mostly get wings in bulk at 5.50USD/lb, as they are a good source of collagen. You didn't mention organ meets. I get calf liver at around 10USD/package when available, only chicken livers tend to be common in supermarkets. Halal shops have more organ meat variety.

[@gadgetgrader]

Where in Colombia?

[@octonion]

@@gadgetgrader Sorry for the confusion, I'm in the US not Colombia.

[@gadgetgrader]

@@octonion those are decent prices how much is ribeye?

[@octonion]

@@gadgetgrader Usually 28-31USD/lb for boneless. I generally get my meat at Whole Foods.

[@jeffschueler1182]

Colombians don’t waste millions of styrofoam platters selling prepackaged meat like they do in the USA. Meat is cut by a butcher and sold from the display case. 🥩 🍖

[@SaraBurdick]

yes! exactly.. so much better for us too.. without the meat soaking up all the styrofoam yuckys!