If you have the space, buy a freezer.  When you find a good source of pasturesed meat, you’ll want to buy in in quantity.  Buying meat in bulk – a quarter of a steer, say, or a whole hog – is one way to eat well on a budget.  Dedicated freezers are surprisingly inexpensive to buy and to operate, because they aren’t opened nearly as often as the on in your refrigerator.  A freezer will also enable you to put up food from the farmers’ market and encourage you to buy produce in bulk at the height of its season, when it will be most abundant – and therefore cheapest.  And freezing does not significantly diminish the nutritional value of produce.