You already optimize everything else. You know which exits to avoid on 635. You've mapped three routes home from work depending on what time you leave. You batch your errands around traffic because DFW doesn't forgive poor planning.

Your food supply deserves the same logic.

The best decision you make this year won't happen at a grocery store. It happens once. When you decide that feeding your family well is worth a single, deliberate commitment. No weekly runs. No wondering what's in it. No defaulting to whatever's on sale.

Whole animal purchasing is how serious households have always eaten. It's coming back because the people who never stopped doing it were right.