I’m really liking Zaycon Foods so far. You order and pay online, then when you pick it up, you don’t even have to get out of the car, they load it for you. Buying meat this way, then getting produce from Bountiful Baskets, makes it so that I don’t have to be in the grocery store as much. This is nice for a couple of reasons, one is that I don’t have a lot of time for long trips, and another is that I don’t have to make my kids be in the grocery store as long.
This week, Zaycon Foods had a boneless, skinless chicken breast event here in my town. Chicken is their trademark event, and I have seen pictures of others who have gotten it, and I decided I wanted to try it. This time, I didn’t share the case, I just bought one for me. It was a 40 pound unit, and the price this time was $1.89 per pound. Sometimes the grocery stores will have chicken as low as $1.67 per pound, but it’s not often and hard to get a good quantity since they usually have limits. I can’t get to the grocery store every day to get daily limit to stock up, so I was happy for this opportunity to stock up. So, what does a 40 pound box of boneless, skinless chicken look like? Like this:
Inside the box was a large, sealed bag that contained 4 unsealed bags of chicken breasts. Lots of juices are with this chicken, so you need to have a workspace prepared in case of spills. Here is how each piece of chicken looks:
This was actually one of the largest ones, weighing about 2 pounds. I first cut it down the middle, then trimmed off the extra fat. I also trimmed some of the chicken from the undersides. Those pieces I cut in smaller pieces and collected in a measuring cup to get to 2 cups. The recipes I use that call for diced chicken or pre-cooked chicken typically are for 1 cups of chicken, and this ends up being about 1 pound worth of chicken. Once that was all done, I decided to put 1.5 to 2 pounds of whole chicken breasts into each bag. I used a roll on my FoodSaver to create my own size bags for this. I cut the larger size chicken breasts in half, so those bags had 4 chicken pieces, then the smaller ones I would put 3 pieces in a bag. It was a lot of work!
I ended up with 16 bags of whole chicken breasts, weighing between 1.5 – 2 pounds each and 4 bags of diced chicken pieces, that were 2 cups or 1 pound each.
My freezer is now just about full! So, I guess my hopes of buying a 1/4 cow are on hold for now. I’m happy to have the chicken and looking forward to getting to try it out! Now that I have a variety of meat in the freezer, when I make my meal plan for the week, I can take out the meat I need for the week and not worry about if I can get the meat on sale at the grocery store. This also means I need to have a good system for labeling and inventory of the freezer, which I will talk about in a later post.
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