SORRY!! and tips to buy meat in Germany

Hey guys,

I just realized that its already a month since my last post. I'm really sorry about that. I'm still a beginner in the Blogger world and I didn't know how much time you need to put into a blog post. Believe me, it's even more when you need to write everything twice, once in German once in English. The next 3 weeks I will be pretty busy as well. I have work during the week and the next weekend I will go camping. After that Chris and I will be in Spain for 10 days. I promise you I'm still gonna try to post more often. And if you need help with something, just write me.

Thomas Weiss  / pixelio.de

Ok, back to some paleo information. Where can you buy the best meat in Germany? The best choice is grasfed beef, pork and poultry free of antibiotics and pesticides. Did anyone of you ever ask for that in the supermarket? I tried once and just got strange looks as an answer.We sometimes buy beef from Argentinia in the supermarket, but its pretty expensive.  On the other hand, its definitaly grasfed because thats the cheapest way to feed cows in Argentinia. In Germany most cows are grainfed because the goverment subsidized agriculture so much. If you can avoid it, don't buy your meat in the supermarket. So what are your options?

1) Neuland meat

Nearly everywhere in Germany there are butcheries that sell Neuland meat. This meat has come from animals who lived after certain rules. These rules include living outside and beeing fed with food which is not genetically modified and free of antibiotics. What these animals eat specifically is not clarified so you would have to ask the butcher. Therefore the Neuland sign is not a guarant for grasfed meat but its definitely better than the meat from the supermarket!

You can eather look for a butcher in your area:

http://www.neuland-fleisch.de/verbraucher/einkaufen.html

Or you can order online from the farms listed here (chicken,beef, prok and lamb):

http://www.neuland-fleisch.de/verbraucher/neuland-online-shop.html

2) Order directly from a farmer

If you invest a little bit of time and use google, one can find farmers who sell their produce directly to the costumer. You can even drive by and check out, how the animals are living. Most of the time you can preorder meat and when the time of slaughter arrives, you can pick it up. In the US thats known as cow-sharing. I found such a farmer in our area. At his farm the animals are outside the whole summer and eat nothing but gras. You can either buy 1/8 (15-20kg), 1/4 (30-40kg) or1/2 (70-80kg) of a cow. Those meat packages include all parts of the cow, from filet to beef shank. And that for a price of 7.50 Euro per kg.

This is the farmer:

http://www.bioalb-weidefleisch.de/48/Einkauf.html

We're on the waiting list for meat there. At the moment the cows are still outside eating gras. In September they will be slaughtered and I will definitely tell you about my experiences. 

3) Buy meat on the internet

Gerhard Frassa  / pixelio.de

Okay, that might sound strange in the beginning, but there's actually nothing strange about it. Meat can be vacuumized and send to you in a cooled box within a day. We actually found a shop on ebay that sells poultry, beef, pork and goat. The 'Schwäbisch-hällisch' pigs do get some grains to eat but also gras, apples, carrots and so on and they're allowed to live a happy life. The 7kg meat package includes roast, sausages, chops, rips, cutlets and knuckle. We've already tried this package and the meat tasted really good. Not comparable to the usual pork.

The highland cows do live outside the whole year and eat nothing but gras. A 6kg package includes roast, goulash, roulade, ground meat, rips, beef shank and soup meat. We will order this package when we come back from Spain and I'll let you know how it was.

Additionally you can buy single üpeaces of meat like steaks etc, goat, rabbit, deer, cheese and sauerkraut. 

http://stores.ebay.de/derhoflieferanthochmoor

I hope I could give you some helpful tips here. Where do you buy your meat? Just write it into the comments and I am happy to include your links in this post.