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Showerthought: I stopped buying chicken breasts and started buying bone-in thighs and I'm saving $18 a trip
Last week at the Kroger on Lamar I stood in the meat aisle doing math on my phone for like ten minutes. A pack of boneless skinless breasts was $13.49 for maybe a pound and a half. Right next to it, bone-in thighs were $5.99 for almost three pounds. So I bought the thighs and figured I'd deal with the bones. Turns out the bones are the whole point, I threw them in a bag in the freezer and last Sunday simmered them with some carrot tops and onion ends and got about six cups of stock that I would've paid $4 for in a box. The meat itself is harder to mess up too, breasts go dry if you blink but thighs just sit there getting better. Chicken salad, tacos, rice bowls, all of it works fine. My grocery run went from around $60 to $42 and nothing about dinner got worse. I'm wondering if there's other stuff like this where the cheap version is just straight up better, anyone got one?
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wilson.claire1mo ago
Learned this the hard way after years of paying extra for chicken that tastes worse.
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