How To Save Money On Groceries

If you are looking to save money; your highest household cost is likely your food, and you might be searching ways to cut back. Buying the wrong meat is the highest way to increase your grocery bill. Here is how you can prevent that

1.Value vs Price

Getting the cheap stuff doesn't always mean savings. Just like a tool, after buying the cheap one 3 times and having it break, you wish you would of bought the quality one right away.

Good quality meat has a better "plated" value. This is to say that the weigth of the meat on your plate or yield, will be greater with better quality meat. Ottawa Valley Meats ages beef, and air chills its pork and chcicken. This means the meat will loose up to 30% less than its cheap counterpart when cooking (hint: look for the meat diapers in the tray meat at a grocery store, this is to soak up liquad weight that you are paying for!)

2. Packaging

Grocery stores will often have family/club packs that offer discounts vs their protioned amounts. These packages never hold up well in the freezer, and often require you to split it up and package it yourself at home. In the meat industry, the more hands that touch meat, the more bacteria that is transfered and the less likely it will keep. If you don't re-pack it, you might finding it daunting to defrost a huge chunk of meat and often it sits in your freezer for months until it freezer burns - all savings are lost

Ottawa Valley Meats portion packs and flash freezes all our meats at time of cutting. This preserves its freshness for up to 2 years in a freezer! 

3. Convenience

Having meat in your freezer you can use at anytime changes your eating habits. We all know eating out at a restaurant or fast food is many times more expensive than eating at home. The last sale you bought at the box store is frozen in your freezer and you jsut got home from work, you either have to buy something fresh for the night or eat out. 

Due to the way Ottawa Valley Meats packages its meats, most cuts defrost in under 30 min in cold water! Take your choice portioned cuts out, and put it in the sink full of water. Before the BBQ is hot enough, the steaks are ready to grill!

4. Shop Smart

Ottawa Valley Meats has bundles that combines different cuts to give you savings you would never see at the grocery store. We do the thinking and put combinations that make meal prep an ease. Look at our bundles and save up to 40% on your costs!

5. Loyalty

Ottawa Valley Meats is all about local, we source local and we support those who buy local! We have a point system that lets your get FREE meat with purchases, every time you buy with OVM, you are putting money in the bank for more quality meat! 

We also have an email list that keeps your in the loop with the latest specials every week! Stay tuned with our SMS and Email messages to save up to 60% on cuts