The HAM bargain.
 

I eat a lot of beans and legumes. What makes both of those infinitely more delicious is ham.

I’ve taken to hitting Honey Baked Hams (or any store knock-off, like the less famous “baked honey hams”), just to buy the ham bones. They are very inexpensive. In the beginning I could get one for $3. Now, they carefully weigh them. I got a giant one for $6. The workers pull a ham and make sandwiches. Then they wrap up the bone, put it in deep freeze to sell. They are kinda lazy; they only pull the meat from the spiral cut potion. The will leave the uncut meat. You get a stupid amount of meat still attached to the bone Great for a chopped ham breakfast hash, slice it for a sando, use it as the friggen highest value dog treat for the utmost obedient dog training.

I’ll slow cook the beans and bone. Discard the bone a floating meat pieces. (Or train my dog with it) and then put in some fresh meat for the best PORK AND BEANS ever. I have not tried a sweeter version. But I will.

I don’t ever buy that $70 entire ham. I just don’t eat that much ham. The bone leftover is perfect.

I try to find smaller packages. This was $6 and maybe too huge. Thawing it out
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Ham goes well with scalloped potatoes and beans. The leftover ham and ham bone can be used for pea soup. Avoiding stunted dried peas is the challenge. :)

My last yellow Lab ate nothing but dry ProPlan her whole life. One Thanksgiving I gave her a big ol' hambone with some meat still on it for a real treat. She was an indoor dawg....totally housebroken unless an idiot intervenes. Well I did....I schit you not....

....but she did....ran through her for two daze :(

You have been warned ;)

Try the ham with this mix.....yum!

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Last time I used ham, I bought one of those small pre-cooked pieces and cut it into cubes....came out great!

Same story with my last lab. Put him in the doggy hospital. Too much fat.

I tried some "turkey ham" once in an effort to eat healthier but it tasted awful so I gave it to the girls. No problem at all...they loved it!

Turkey is turkey, and ham is ham, and never the twain shall meet

I find that ham compliments my bacon quite well.

Good idea if ham is really pricey there. You can buy a nice half ham (@10 lbs) in the grocery store here for about $20. Cheaper when on sale.