Posted on 07/14/2022 7:13:33 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Rising prices for packaged chicken breasts, thighs and wings can leave a consumer squawking: Enough is enough.
Egged on by the high cost of chicken parts, Simon Kirsch, a 33-year-old tech worker from Portland, Ore., decided to spring for the whole bird and take it apart himself.
Whole bird “I couldn’t justify spending that money,” he says.
Before inflation, he says, “I wasn’t, like, making soup on the weekends.”
As of last week, the price for a whole chicken, on average, was $1.56 a pound, according to the Agriculture Department, up from $1.09 a year ago. Boneless, skinless chicken breast prices were $4.26 a pound, up from $2.46 a year ago.
Clara Cannucciari, who died at age 98 in 2013, lived through the Great Depression near Chicago and posted videos about how her Sicilian-American parents stretched food in dire times. Christopher Cannucciari, her 43-year-old grandson, says the page got tens of thousands of more views than usual in May. The channel has drawn thousands more subscribers in recent months than it usually adds, he says. Fans reach out to him personally or leave comments on old videos, such as the popular “Poorman’s Meal”—fried potatoes, onions and hot dogs—expressing their gratitude, he says.
Jan Wardell, who is 71 and also lives in Pocatello, bought a whole chicken recently but is ruling it out for the future. There was too much chicken.
“You don’t want to have the same meal over and over and over until it’s gone,” she says.
But she isn’t throwing any away. “I’m too cheap for that,” she says.
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Just plain cheap and proud of it!
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Egged on by the high cost of chicken parts, Simon Kirsch, a 33-year-old tech worker from Portland, Ore., decided to spring for the whole bird and take it apart himself.
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The year is 2022. When purchasing a whole chicken is news.
It’s called “being cost effective”. Just a frugal muse!
Labor costs money.
DIY.
I have a bread maker I’ll haven’t pulled it out in a while, but perhaps I will.
I buy whole chickens all the time but gosh I can go through a bird in one or two maybe three meals between both of us.
I bought a whole fresh chicken yesterday for $6.50 and baked it for our cat , she’ll eat good for a week or less , LOL
Costco rotisserie chicken has always been a favorite with us.
Make soup, freeze leftovers in meal sized packets. Make casseroles, freeze leftovers in meal size packets. If you do it enough you end up with a nice variety. Cheap meats are tender if the are roasted in an old fashioned Dutch oven.
Been that way all my life!...................
I often buy whole chickens and cook them on the rotisserie of my Weber Kettle grill. I may do one this weekend.
I can eat a whole lot better buying a whole cut of meat, and slicing it into steaks/chops/roasts myself. A freezer is your friend.
With all the illiterates looking to be offended, you’ve got a lot of nerve typing the word niggardly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm
Me too, had to cut back on my food bill. I have been carnivore the last four years eating mostly beef. Last week I got an air fryer and started cooking whole chickens. Stater Bros has them @$1.49.
It’s pretty tasteless, so I spice it up with jarred Tikka Masala and Jalfrezi Curry sauces.
How do you cook a chicken in a bread maker???
*** “You don’t want to have the same meal over and over and over until it’s gone,” she says.***
If you have a freezer, there’s a simple fix for that.
We will bake a whole chicken, eat all the good stuff, and then make a thick broth for the dogs.
It’s like crack to them. LOL!
I'll take a leftover rotisserie breast, wrap it in saran wrap, stick it in the freezer, and at a later point thaw it and make a chicken stir-fry with onions and peppers over rice.
So cut it up and put the pieces in the freezer or cook then cut up and put pieces in the freezer.
All I buy is whole chickens and usually spatchcock and roast them. My son and I get 2-3 meals out of them and the cat gets the carcass.
I don't do Tyson. Usually get the Springer Mountain Farms brand. We usually have it with yellow rice, a copycat version of Vigo's yellow rice. 2-3 meals for $6.
We've also taken to eating beans and rice on occassion.
En croûte!
(chortle)
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