There are various ways to cut down on costs as regards buying grassfed meats, IMO:-
 
The first is to buy a lot of organ-meats. Not only are they more nutritious than muscle-meats, but people in the West mostly hate them, the result being that they're a lot cheaper than buying the muscle-meats, on average. The only downside is that many farmers often expect no demand for their organ-meats so many only sell them on request. You have to look around a lot for the more unusual organs like brains, lungs etc., unless you live in  countries with more loosened food-regulations like the Middle-East or China.
 
Due to my penchant for buying organ-meats, I've managed to do regular bulk-deals with local farmers whereby I can get a whole lot of things like ox liver/hearts, (which no one else wants even if grassfed) in one go(usually something like 50-60 UK pounds for c.3/4 of a fortnight's food-supply).
 
 
Go low-carb. The fewer carbs and the higher the amount of animal-fat one eats, the lower one's appetite is. You'd be surprised how your appetite drops after eating a pound or two of suet/marrow/tongue etc., all of which are rich in fat. Very early on in my RPD diet, I would eat mostly lean-meats with only little animal-fat in the form of a few raw eggs and lots of carbs, and my appetite would be enormous, but with all the suet/marrow I'm eating, everything's fine. 
 
Go for the cheaper cuts. To be quite honest, I've never been bothered re buying stewing-steak instead of fillet-steaks, they taste just fine. And it's also a good idea to go after neglected meats such as mutton instead of lamb(mutton is fattier and less in demand than lamb, so is much cheaper). 
 
 
Another thing I've noticed is that the higher the quality of the meats, the less I need to eat of them, by comparison to grainfed meats junk-food etc. They also tend to be cheaper than many conventionally-grassfed meats(eg:- saltmarsh-fed lamb or heather-fed lamb).
One of my particular favourites is meats/wild-meats from wild animals. I get them from farmers' markets(NOT from expensive wild-game-butchers' shops), and they are incredibly cheap in the former. Here's an example of food-prices for wild meats  in English pounds sterling(1 english pound equals 2 US dollars, approximately)(bear in mind that all prices for food in the UK tend to be much higher than in the US, at all levels):-
 
1 wild mallard duck (admittedly not much meat on it):- I get that for 4 UK pounds(8 US dollars). I would pay 15 to 20 pounds for a free-range duck fed on a 100% unhealthy(albeit organic) all-grain-based diet, which would have lots of unhealthy fat on it.
 
1 whole, wild-hare carcass(costs me anywhere from 7 to 12 pounds sterling, depending on which farmers' market I visit, usually it's 10 pounds). By contrast, I can pay up to 28 pounds for a kilo of grassfed beef(ie fillet-steak) - and the wild-hare tastes SO much better, by comparison.
 
Farmers' markets are also ideal re getting hold of wildcaught raw  seafood cheap fishmonger's. I can get things like whole, live  lobster at 17 pounds, wildcaught crabs for 3 pounds per crab, extra-large oysters at 7 UK pounds for 10 of them, a huge bag of (150?/200?) live mussels) for 4 UK pounds  etc.
 
Geoff
 
 "Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognised. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, and in the third it is regarded as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer. http://www.rawpaleo.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawpaleodiet/> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:24:40 -0400> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Organ Meats> To: [log in to unmask]> > > -----Original Message-----> > From: Paleolithic Eating Support List> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Purcell> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:28 PM> > To: [log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Organ Meats> > > > The larger profit margins of grass-fed meats are a pretty good indicator> that their prices are higher than those of grain-fed meats. If grass-fed> meat were cheaper or the same price, or even just modestly more expensive> than equal portions of grain-fed meat I would never buy grain-fed again,> wherever there was a choice. Sadly, I have never seen this. > > My food budget went up when I went Paleo, but I feel that it's worth the> extra cost. I see it as an investment in my health. I just wish the cost> didn't keep going up and up at an alarming rate and that I didn't have to> make more and more compromises. I can't afford to fast either--I'm skinny as> it is! :-)> 
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