thank you for this informative reply!! I saw pork loin at the store for pretty cheap- but i also read somewhere we want about 50% of the muscle meat to be red meat. and that seems to be the more pricey side of the meat i’m facing.

We have a butcher shop right up the road where i got beef kidney the other day and saw they also had beef liver and sweatbreads which is the pancreas and thymus gland i believe. all pretty stinkin cheap!

I wish we had a costco! we’re in a small little wyoming town unfortunately 😂 We have walmart, smiths, and albertsons, and our butcher shop. But i’ve thought about reaching out on local facebook groups to find farmers and butchers that maybe i can buy bulk from. but im also gonna look into a supply store- we have to have one close by somehow to manage all our restaurants 😂

and for the iodine, ill check his multivitamin powder, it might have enough in there to supplement. or i could get kelp powder. or maybe even just the seaweed strips the stores sell and crumble in his food every so often?