Frozen Chicken Breasts?

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  • madmex569
    madmex569 Posts: 49
    i bought frozen tenderloins once. they were fine,but for the price, i found buying fresh in the supermarket was about same price when a good sale was on. Then i buy a bunch and freeze them. All i eat is chicken, so doing this really helps
  • hdsqrl
    hdsqrl Posts: 420 Member
    I'd been buying the bags of frozen boneless breasts from Walmart for years, but then noticed that more often than not, several pieces would be freezer burned. Might just be my local Walmart, though. The other week I was in a regular grocery store and there was a lady standing by the Smart Chicken in the meat case, handing out coupons. The cost for one package of Smart Chicken was the same as the cost for a whole bag of chicken at Walmart, but she explained to me that the difference between the two was that the Smart Chicken was never soaked in the vats of salt water, did not have that added disclaimer of "may contain up to 5% water", etc. I figured it was worth a try, so I picked up a package.

    The difference in taste and quality floored me. The Smart Chicken had zero fat or weird bits of gristle hanging on. Each piece was solid meat, and the flavor was much better than the frozen bagged chicken I'd been buying for years.

    I think I've reached a point in my head that it's worth the extra cost to buy the Smart Chicken, and just accept that we'll be eating less chicken and more of other things that the budget will allow in order to make sure the chicken we DO eat is really good. :\

    Stop buying at Walmart, problem solved :D

    Well, I've stopped shopping there for groceries anyhow, but found the pre-bagged frozen chicken at the regular store was the same way. :\
  • madmex569
    madmex569 Posts: 49
    i throw frozen breast in slow cooker and cover with my homemade salsa. let it cook couple hours. when almost done. i throw my veggies in. mostly broccoli. mix with juices and salsa. awesome.
  • mrmanmeat
    mrmanmeat Posts: 1,968 Member
    I'd been buying the bags of frozen boneless breasts from Walmart for years, but then noticed that more often than not, several pieces would be freezer burned. Might just be my local Walmart, though. The other week I was in a regular grocery store and there was a lady standing by the Smart Chicken in the meat case, handing out coupons. The cost for one package of Smart Chicken was the same as the cost for a whole bag of chicken at Walmart, but she explained to me that the difference between the two was that the Smart Chicken was never soaked in the vats of salt water, did not have that added disclaimer of "may contain up to 5% water", etc. I figured it was worth a try, so I picked up a package.

    The difference in taste and quality floored me. The Smart Chicken had zero fat or weird bits of gristle hanging on. Each piece was solid meat, and the flavor was much better than the frozen bagged chicken I'd been buying for years.

    I think I've reached a point in my head that it's worth the extra cost to buy the Smart Chicken, and just accept that we'll be eating less chicken and more of other things that the budget will allow in order to make sure the chicken we DO eat is really good. :\

    Stop buying at Walmart, problem solved :D

    Well, I've stopped shopping there for groceries anyhow, but found the pre-bagged frozen chicken at the regular store was the same way. :\

    They're not made to be fresh, good quality. They're made to be cheap.
    Buy the fresh chicken, on sale, freeze it. Works perfect.

    I just dislike Walmart, so that's eliminating problem 1 :)
  • iWaffle
    iWaffle Posts: 2,208 Member
    ** If you have a Sam's Club in your area check them out. Mine almost always has chicken breast for less than $2 a pound and not the IQF.
    That's where I normally get mine although I do by from Walmart too some times. It's $1.97 a pound at both places and they come packed in about 5 lbs bundles. Someone mentioned earlier that the fresh chicken at grocery stores really arrives frozen. I did notice that some of the chicken had a little bit of ice on the edges. I don't know if they shipped it totally frozen or just keep it so close to freezing that it gets frozen around the edges but there was ice on some of the chicken.

    Either way I still prefer the chicken that comes in whole boneless breast halves. You have to trim off a little bit of fat but I like it better than the bagged frozen pieces. I always grill mine outside over charcoal after letting it soak in an olive oil/water marinade. Love the flavor.

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