It depends on what you and your family like to cook and eat. When we had 5 kids at home, our packages were much larger than they are now that all our kids are grown. We have our good steaks singly packaged, and about half of our roasts are no more than about 3 or 4 pounds. We grind most of the round into hamburger, along with the short ribs. The hamburger is packaged in 1 pound bricks and ends up being so lean that it isn't suitable for barbecuing hamburgers--it falls apart while it is cooking. But it is great for everything else. Since we like soups, we have the bones packaged for boiling and also have quite a few stew meat packages included.
All the small packages cost us a little more for the added labor and materials. But for us, and our situation at this time, it is worth it, since we can get just what we need out of the freezer. There is very little waste. We usually get a large half every year and eat it up over the course of a year. Our most recent half was supposed to have been butchered last Saturday.
I am careful to use up the older meat first. It does not get better in the freezer and after a few years, it isn't very good at all. With pork, I try to never let it get to be a year old, as it seems to get rancid after that. The same with chickens.
I have our good steaks cut 3/4" thick because I prefer the way that thickness of steak cooks on the gas barbecue. But you may like thicker steaks...the butcher will make them, and the packages whatever sizes you instruct them to do. Good luck!
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