So with 2 people in my home we don't really make dinner so I don't have chicken carcasses or beef bones in the freezer.

Has anyone just gone to the butcher in their local grocery store and asked for bones?

Hi there!

First you can try looking up Farmer's Market's in your area and trying to find leads to local farms. Sometimes there will be an entire community you can contact that will sell you beef and chicken and lamb bones.

IF you can not find organic, which was a problem for me because I am not extremely rich and the bones from the Koch Farm here cost like 12-25$ a pound, (come on). I called my grocery store and they ordered the bones I needed.

First, I purchased rotisserie chickens from Sam's and took all the meat off and froze the white and dark meat, separated. Then I had picked up the chicken feet that I ordered from my grocery store, it took 2 days to come in. I cooked the carcasses and feet for 2 days on a slow, slow bubbly roll.

ANYWAY. Try looking locally for farms, if no luck, try a Sam's and then ordering from your other grocery store!


PS Whole Foods have beef bones in stock in the freezer section, but they looked at me like I had a third eye when I asked for chicken bones and chicken feet.

Edited January 21, 201610 yr by Amelie2016

I haven't but don't know why you couldn't ask.

It also might be worth to just to buy a small chicken and use it to make chicken and broth both.

I am sure the butcher can give you some ideas.

I buy beef bones at the supermarket, usually packed about 2 lbs a package. They make especially good broth if you brown them in the oven first. Get yourself a package of chicken wings to make chicken broth.

It's just Huz and me at home, but we typically buy bone-in chicken because we like the flavor of bone-in better.

Yes. A store like Walmart Supercenter will not have them because there is no butcher shop. Their meat is trucked in. If you can find a market with a fresh meat butcher, they will have the bones. I have found packaged beef bones shrink-wrapped and displayed with other meat.

What my mother used to do was buy beef with the bone still in, like a round steak, and just carve out the bone for Soup. Requiring organic or grass-fed will make your search harder and more expensive.