With my new toys to try out, I bought a whole black forest ham, oven roast turkey breast and I made a 3lb pastrami. All sliced up and sealed. These deli meats by doing this myself ended up costing me about 5.25lb for the ham, 4.00lb oven roast turkey breast and pastrami 4.50lb (this is not counting my time). If you and family like deli meats (as we do and about all I take for work most days). You could save some money. I was going to do a chub of bologna too. But looking at the price of a 5lb chub vs already sliced 1lb packs. I would not saved anything. Yes it was the same bologna maker.