ground beef/turkey, which to chose?

I learned something I did not kow a few months ago on feednetwork, and it's important. Especially if your trying to cut fat from you diet.
I always thought ground turkey was leaner then ground beef, and a good subetutite.
Not so. Some ground turkey is very low fat and a benefit over ground beef. But some has the skin and fat ground in it. Making it as high a fat content as hamburger.
A good reason to read labels. When the lable does not give the lean to fat ratio, I compare the fat and calories on thelabels to see if it too high fat.
Went to the store and compared every ground raw turkey product to see. Yep, one product we were buying was as high in fat as hamburger (23%). But most were well below ground chucks fat content (15%)
Some definations of the different ground beefs.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/beef/a/groundbeeflabel.htm
chart of fat percetages
http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa090802b.htm
As someone who does not eat fat( as little as possible, you won't findme eating a regular hamburger), and will cut it out everywhere possible, this was a surprise and now I know how to properly shop for our food.
Eating low fat does not mean you can not eat ground beef, or you can't eat a hamburger, you just need to get the very low fat ground beef. My preference is the 97/3, (97% lean, 3% fat) but it isn't always available here, and it is very expensive, so usully I buy the 93/7, also expensive, but not as high. Now I make sure when I buy ground turkey it is at least 90/10. And I frequently make my burgers from turkey.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1407155/why_you_should_use_ground_turkey_in.html
Just some stuff I've been learning about eating low fat that i thought I'd share.

 

Glad it was helpful. In my quest for al little fat and sugar as possible I have found it's really hard to cut it completely, they stick sugar in almost everything. Which is a good reason not to buy convience foods.

 

I agree, treat it right and you can't tell it's not beef. But I also like the flavor of turkey too. Sometimes I use it like beef, and sometimes I just want turkey, plus I buy only the lean ground beef, never anything less then 90% lean, but prefer 93 or 97% lean, when I can afford the difference.
Think of how much fat we cut from our regular diets by making just this kind of change.

 

I do the same thing Trotter.
I buy my lean ground turkey at wal mart and it's $1.74 a 1 pound roll.
Eating healthy definitely costs more.

 

I buy my meat marked down like that at Food Lion a lot, prettiest mark downmeat around, and great prices, usually about half off.

 

We've decided whenever we go to Bowling Green we're taking our ice chest and visiting aldi, but wouldn't make any special trips since it costs so much to go anyway. But I'll be look at that turkey.