the rest of the meat that you take off the front quarter, and the bottom of the rear quarters are not good for anything else but the grinder,grind it up with the neck meat, and anything else. We get beef fat from the local grocery store for free, and grind it once thru the 1/4 plate, meat goes thru once in the 1/4 plate, then blend your fat with the meat, and run it thru a second time thru the 1/4 plate, and your done, we package it at this point, unless we make sausage. The beef fat helps in cooking. you can make it as lean as you want, we like it very lean!