Our New Vacuum Sealer

For his birthday this year I got him a new Vacuum Sealer!

He’s been wanting one for years, but it’s very expensive. However, if you add up all the money he’s paid other people to seal up all the fish & game he brings home, he could have gotten three of these things already. And we both paid for halfs, so it wasn’t such a bite to our pocketbooks as it could have been. It took a while for it to arrive at our doorstep, so we are just now getting to play with it a bit.

During our weekly grocery shopping run this weekend we came across a really good deal on a huge chunk of New York Strip, so we figured that was the perfect “excuse” to try out our new toy. We also got a nice big ham and some chicken breasts – but the deal on the beef was exceptional: regular price was $175 but we only paid $70

I’m sure by now everyone knows I don’t eat red meat. My preferred source of protein is more plant based, like Tofu. Seeing that huge hunk of bloody meat in the bag at the store was quite gross, but Bryan was really excited. He had fun cutting it into meal-sized portions. I failed to get a final tally, but I’m guessing he got at least 14 or 15 meals out of that chunk!

The new sealer is very loud and make lots of hissing noises – but it works pretty well. It came with a package of various sizzed sealer bags, so we had plenty to work with. It took us maybe an hour and a half to get all the meat packaged up and in the freezer.