Dollar Tree stores that have frozen sections sell small packages of $1 meats. Their meat has gotten mixed reviews. The $1 chicken nuggets are supposed to be good. But their $1 frozen meatballs supposedly smell like leftover KFC and have the texture of Chef Boyardee meatballs. And the $1 ribeye steaks are super thin, but some budget cooks use them to make stir fry or steak sandwiches. So have you taken a chance on the Dollar Tree meats or does food that cheap scare you?
Our local Dollar Tree doesn't have a frozen section. If it did I'd likely try it. I'm not crazy about chicken nuggets or meatballs I haven't made myself, but the thin steaks would be worth a shot. Shoot. At a dollar a pack I might even try the nuggets. I wish our Dollar Tree did have a frozen section as I would for sure buy packs of vegetables from them.
One blogger said that they made the best steak sandwiches ever out of those thin $1 four ounce rib eyes at Dollar Tree. And supposedly if you combine the $1 bag of frozen pepper stir fry with slices of the thin steaks, you can make decent fajitas. If people are thinking that they're going to grill a big steak for $1, they will be disappointed. But if you are thinking of using the thin steaks in Chinese food where meat is more of a garnish, then it's not a bad deal.
I've tried the pork sausage, fish, & a few beef cuts. Not a fan. Particularly the size of the fish/beef for a dollar but also the fat content of the sausage. I'm not a fan of porn generally speaking but this product seemed to be a way to incorporate all the fat into bits of meat. If I was looking to keep a lard I would suggest this as a help in that venture. As a meat? Not so much.
I haven't tried theirs specifically, but I've had similar steaks from Wal-Mart, so I kind of knew what to expect, and avoided them. Actually, you might want to check the ones they sell at Wal-Mart, because the whole box of them is like $5 or $6 I believe, in their frozen meats section, and they might actually be a little thicker than the ones they are selling at Dollar Tree. The problem is, they are soaked in a very salty brine, and literally look almost grey-ish red right out of the pack. There's all sorts of additives in the brine too, such as caramel coloring and other weird preservatives. If you like your steaks rare or medium rare, you probably won't like these at all. I kind of cringed when I saw people on Youtube adding even more seasoning to these, because they already have too much salt on them to being with imo. I suppose they would work find in a Philly Cheese steak though, if you sliced them up real thin and cooked them with some peppers and onions though. Or perhaps sliced them up to use in a stir fry, but I would be careful with the soy sauce.
$1 meat is a little scary to me. I have seen plenty of crap that costs more, so I can only imagine that $1 meat is even worse, not that I have checked, admittedly. I don't generally expect much from a dollar store purchase for the most part. There are a few worthwhile things in there, but exclusively non-perishables.
