When we were growing up my father would buy one herd of cattle for meat with three other people. It would then be slaughtered and shared among the four families. This would guarantee that we would have beef for as long as six months. To discourage us from wasting the meat, on the day he would buy the meat he would allow us to have as much as we wanted. It worked because for the next couple of weeks we really did not care for it. Any kind of meat is considered a luxury in most households in Zimbabwe especially in the cities because it is expensive there and in the rural areas people lack refrigeration.
