My 7yo loves beef jerky. He would ask for it at the store, but I always told him no, because I thought it was gross. Bo would buy it for him, though, and we found out that he loved it. I still said no in the store, though, because it seemed expensive.
Last year, my husband and Nate decided to use our dehydrator to make their own beef jerky. It was delicious (I never thought I liked beef jerky, until I tried theirs!) Nate has recently been asking about it again, so when I saw that London Broil was $1.77 / lb this week, I picked some up so they could make more.
It is an easy recipe, and the taste is amazing. Plus, it is so much cheaper than buying it from the checkout lane. My husband removes as much fat as possible from the meat, then slices it into beef jerky-sized slices. They make a simple marinade (2/3 cup soy sauce, 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce, 1/3 cup brown sugar, few dashes of liquid smoke, some pepper, and a couple crushed garlic cloves) and let the beef marinade for 3 - 4 hours. They put the beef onto the dehydrator and let it go for 6-10 hours. We then package it up and enjoy!
If you don't have a dehydrator, you can also use your oven on low, with the door cracked just a bit. I'm not sure how long it would take, but I'm guessing 4-6 hours.
We gave it as gifts last year, and it was a hit! I think it cost us about $10 this time to turn 3 lbs of London Broil into jerky -- which to me is quite the money saving venture!
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