How much game do you eat?

Most of our red meat is game of one form or another. Probably 75%. We do continue to eat store bought meats but nothing beats a properly cooked venison tenderloin in my books.
 
Just the wife and I in our family. We eat deer until there is none left, then start buying red meat again. Last year about 30%, this year should be more like 70 because I shot two decent-sized deer. A dozen pheasant and half as many grouse is a good upland season for me. I shot 6 woodcock this year, but those aren't really more than a meal! lol! 30-50 ducks round it out, then trout, striped bass, mackerel and pollock. I would say that in total, we average about 50% wild-harvested meat in a good year.
 
like %20 my mom and sister dont like it so I dont have much say. I would only eat it if I could
 
Do you guys that eats it 80%+ always eat the same thing or do you guys have a large variety of recipes?

My 30% or so I listed in the first post breaks down to something like this:

hunting season: goose for breakfast lunch and dinner x 3 months
the rest of the year: maybe 1 meal every week.
 
100% of steaks and burger. Sausage is about 70% game. Usually a fair number of upland birds and ducks, but not this year. Wife buys about 2 dozen chickens a year from a local farm. Had 2 lambs last year, but none this year. This is all "in-house" mind you, and does not include restaurant / travel meals - which unfortunately is more often then I like.

I would say probably 85% or better for the last 8 years or so.
 
I would say 30%, maybe more in years where we pick up good roadkills. 75-100 geese,a few dozen ducks,maybe a turkey or two and atleast one deer. We eat through it pretty fast sometimes faster than we can kill it.
 
About 90% - the only exceptions are bacon & ham for Sunday breakfast, a bit of pork fat mixed in to sausage, and the odd turkey. Always have a freezer full of elk, deer, ducks and geese.
 
sherlockbonez said:
Do you guys that eats it 80%+ always eat the same thing or do you guys have a large variety of recipes?

My 30% or so I listed in the first post breaks down to something like this:

hunting season: goose for breakfast lunch and dinner x 3 months
the rest of the year: maybe 1 meal every week.
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I'm always messing with recipes to try different things, mixed in about 50-50 with coming back to the old favourites.

My percentage is fairly evenly spread throughout the year as long as the supplies last. Usually I'm out of deer by the time the best BBQ season rolls around though, which is a pain! lol!
 
We eat moose, caribou, bison, sheep, bear, grouse, or ptarmigan at least five days a week, often twice a day: fresh, cured or smoked sausage at breakfast, roasts, steaks, chops, stew or burger in the evenings, and leftovers in sandwiches and for soups for lunch.

The other days we eat lake trout, pike, grayling, or lingcod. :D

Ted
 
75 percent. The other 25 percent is organic beef and pork from my brothers farm, and we have our own chickens and eggs that are free ranging and also organic. I use a great deal of the pork for sausage making. My Girlfriend and myself get six deer tags per year as well as party moose and elk, and mulie draw, which we almost always get.

I don't like the taste of store purchased beef and prefer not to eat something that is injected with growth hormones and chemicals. Each to their own, this is my choice.
 
Our protein supply is

Wild meat (mostly moose and deer)
Home raised pig
Home raised chicken, duck and turkey
Wild caught salmon and halibut
Wild caught prawns
Home raised eggs


That's it...We don't ever buy protein other than cheese and milk.:)
 
We don't buy storebought meat in this house. Full stop.
Ontop of the birds, fish, herbivores and omnivores in the freezer we add crabs and oysters. After that we have been known to pick a few mushrooms on the side. With the garden and fruit trees there is little food in this house that wasnt harvested by us.
 
Moose and deer, mostly. A neighbor raises meat chickens so we have a few of those and we ate our laying hens this year (very tasty - the soup was unspeakably good).
 
Why not? said:
We eat moose, caribou, bison, sheep, bear, grouse, or ptarmigan at least five days a week, often twice a day: fresh, cured or smoked sausage at breakfast, roasts, steaks, chops, stew or burger in the evenings, and leftovers in sandwiches and for soups for lunch.

The other days we eat lake trout, pike, grayling, or lingcod. :D

Ted
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Now I remember why Ted I keep trying to get the Mrs to move to the Yukon.
Did get the opportunity many years back to fish there once and wanted to stay;).
 
From December to around March or April all our red meat is game meat. The whole family prefers it to beef. The limited amount of deer we can hunt here and the fact that I'm the worlds worst moose hunter means that we aren't eating game meat 100% of the time.
Grouse is a big winner in our home also :)
 
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