Full Meat Combo

I am glad you sent an email asking for a review because I would not have otherwise left one. I really wanted to support a local business close to my home and stop shopping in the big grocers. I thought finding this butcher would be an awesome new culinary adventure. I must say, so far, I am very disappointed.
I bought 4 full meat combos:
- Chicken Leg: The chicken legs are pretty small, I can get larger ones else where for the same sale price or lower.
- Chicken Breast: These were the most impressive!!- nice, large, plump. Of all the meat sent these were definitely worth it!
- Steak 8oz Striploin: The steaks were VERY sinewy. I had so much gristle and almost like silver skin, pieces of inedible tissue, it was such a waste of a piece of meat. Not one bit was tender (I eat my steak medium rare and I cooked it in a nice hot cast iron pan), and every single bite, I had to pull pieces of sinew from my mouth. I bought the full meat pack specifically for the steaks and these were not enjoyable.
- Pork Chop: These were so impossibly thin! They were like very thin, quick fry, not a nice proper thickness chop. The 4 of them stacked on top of one another would have made 1 decent thickness chop. While tasty, these were not worth the price. I was hoping to bread these and bake them in the oven and instead had to quick fry them, so they were a bit tougher. While tasty, they were not the nice juicy, super tender chops I was hoping for.
- 1lb Ground beef was obviously regular ground and not lean, it was extremely fatty. Again, while tasty, as it cooked it was just swimming in a vat of it's own fat. I thought I would be getting lean or med fat, but this was full/reg fat beef.
- Colombian Sausage and Mexican Sausage - these I haven't tried because I would like to grill them on the BBQ. Still hopeful they are flavorful, juicy and not too fatty. Will review in time, but I am looking forward to trying!
Prior to seeing the full meat variety pack, I was about to buy a large roast, which I still may try, but the the unpleasant experience with the steaks makes me overly cautious of spending a bundle on another product. I mean, most roasts if you cook them long enough will be nice and tender no matter the cut, but I'm just not sure. I always want to give a place a second chance, so we will see. Just not sure if it is overall worth what I paid.
The 5lb of bones I bought for osso buco were NOT AT ALL as advertised! NO long bones (a few inches long) full or marrow, like the photo. No, there was just a big bag of mostly random fragments of bones from the tops of femurs to sharp cuts of odd bone with zero marrow. This actually really upset me. I felt like I was mostly given random chucks of bones to make up the weight but NONE could be used for osso bucco. None. I made a bone broth as not to waste them, so at least there is that, but I could have made two big pots of bone broth for half the price by buying beef bones from Nations.

I have ordered this combo several times and I have always been satified with the products. This is a perfect selection for seniors who live alone and want variety in their meal selections. A good value for the money.

This past Christmas I gave a meat order gift to a few people. In each case I received excellent reviews of all the products for quality and taste.

I purchased this to sample the quality of the meat for my first order. I am pleasantly surprised at how fresh, how delicious all of the meat was. As I've seen in some other comments, the pork chop is sliced quite thin, and the steak may be thinner than to many people's preferences, but besides that, the taste, freshness and juicyness of the meat was top notch!

The meat combo I got was delicious th meat was perfect, thank you 😊