To be quite honest we don't eat that much beef at my house, but when we do we really enjoy it.  After my day with the Colorado Beef Producers I must admit that I do feel better about eating beef. . . all types of it.  If you are part of the 4% that eat only organic or natural, my congratulations to you.  If you are part of the population that buy and eat conventionally raised beef I hope you learned a little something about the choices you make and feel just a bit more informed about what you put on the table.

One additional bit of information that we learned on this day is the reason that inexpensive cuts of meat seem to be dwindling off store shelves.  It seems that modern beef consumers prefer to buy meat that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, passing on the cheaper cuts of meat that take much longer to cook. Nowadays many of our mother and grandmother's favorites are being ground into hamburger meat which makes me a little bit sad.  There's just something about a slow cooked pot roast on a cold winter's night that is so comforting.

Luckily I am still able to find these less expensive cuts of meat on occasion.  Since today is a beautiful cool fall day here in Colorado, I'm firing up the slow cooker and filling it with savory goodness.  My family is really going to enjoy this change of pace.