I am a chicken snob. I will only buy Perdue chicken. Since boneless skinless chicken breast costs $5.49 a pound regular price, I wait until it goes on sale and stock up. We eat a lot of chicken, because it's so versatile, and Johnny will eat just about any dish made with it.
Last month, Safeway had some other brand of chicken on sale for $1.99 a pound. I wavered, then tossed it into my cart, because I'll try anything once.
I used half of it that night and froze the other half for another time. The fresh chicken I used was so fatty, half of it ended up in the trash, so I had already decided to not buy it again. Then the other half of the package got buried in the meat drawer until I discovered it last night and put it in the refrigerator to use today.
Dinner was Peanut Chicken Stirfry, a new recipe, and I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. The sauce was tasty and went well with the random vegetables I threw in (Tuscan-style veggie mix, extra broccoli and edamame) instead of what the recipe called for. Johnny even ate it, brown rice and all.
I was happy with it, that is, except for the chicken. It had frozen into a big ball, and had not thawed by dinner time, so I put the ball in a big pot and boiled it until it separated. I kept poking it, thinking This chicken has been in here forever, why is it still raw?
Then I took a piece out and cut into it...and it wasn't raw at all, it was completely cooked. It was just dark meat. That I bought in a package labeled boneless skinless breast.
Hmph. So either someone screwed up at the packing plant, or someone thinks people are too stupid to know the difference between white meat and dark meat.
Don't get me wrong, it tasted good. But dark meat has so much more fat in it that white meat, and I really need to lose some weight.
Frank Perdue, please forgive my momentary lapse of judgement. I will never stray again.
Last month, Safeway had some other brand of chicken on sale for $1.99 a pound. I wavered, then tossed it into my cart, because I'll try anything once.
I used half of it that night and froze the other half for another time. The fresh chicken I used was so fatty, half of it ended up in the trash, so I had already decided to not buy it again. Then the other half of the package got buried in the meat drawer until I discovered it last night and put it in the refrigerator to use today.
Dinner was Peanut Chicken Stirfry, a new recipe, and I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. The sauce was tasty and went well with the random vegetables I threw in (Tuscan-style veggie mix, extra broccoli and edamame) instead of what the recipe called for. Johnny even ate it, brown rice and all.
I was happy with it, that is, except for the chicken. It had frozen into a big ball, and had not thawed by dinner time, so I put the ball in a big pot and boiled it until it separated. I kept poking it, thinking This chicken has been in here forever, why is it still raw?
Then I took a piece out and cut into it...and it wasn't raw at all, it was completely cooked. It was just dark meat. That I bought in a package labeled boneless skinless breast.
Hmph. So either someone screwed up at the packing plant, or someone thinks people are too stupid to know the difference between white meat and dark meat.
Don't get me wrong, it tasted good. But dark meat has so much more fat in it that white meat, and I really need to lose some weight.
Frank Perdue, please forgive my momentary lapse of judgement. I will never stray again.
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Thank God it's not just me! Scott says I'm like the little girl from "Signs" (with every reason on why she won't drink her water- "it's contaminated!"). I hate buying generic chicken- it just tastes different to me. Ever since I got pregnant with Trent, I can barely eat chicken as is- so I don't mind the extra $$ for something I like!
That's kind of how I am about eggs!
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