Cub Foods 3 Pound Ground Beef Package a Bargain or False Packaging

Cub Foods brand 100% Ground Beef

How Many Pounds of Ground Beef Are in the Cub Foods Brand 3 Pound Package?

by Mary Katherine May

On Sunday my husband make a quick trip to Cub Foods in Crystal, Minnesota, to pick up a few very need basic food items.  One of the products I requested was one pound of ground beef.  Because he is more of a value shopper than I am he came home with their 3-pound tube package of hamburger.  

Three pounds of ground beef sliced at the mark points will not make 14 one-fourth pound hamburger patties.

The package has markings like sticks of butter.  In this case, the lines are where the beef can be sliced to make 1/4-pound hamburger patties.  REALLY?  Look at the photo.  The lines mark off 14 sections.

Well! We thought. Maybe we got a real bargain. 14 patties at 1/4-pound each makes for 3-1/2 pounds of ground beef.  We weighed it on our postage scale and discovered that not only was there no extra hamburger in the package, but that the total weight including the packaging was exactly 3.0 pounds. 

Now let's get this straight. The Cub Foods 3-pound tube package of ground  beef does not even contain 3 pounds of meat unless you eat the plastic vinyl stuff in which it is wrapped that makes it freezer ready and the metal fasteners on the ends, too.

Cubs Foods brand 3-pound ground beef package weighs exactly 3 pounds including the packaging materials.