Submitted by Astronaut-Ordinary t3_10ogdpb in rva
Looking to start getting into cooking. But since I live in the burbs, I have so many options for grocery stores. I know every grocery store sells them, but where do you buy chicken breast at a good price? I prefer a chain store, obviously.
I bought eggs and chicken today at aldi. I wasn’t really shopping for chicken, but found two packs of chicken tenders for half price. I cooked them when I got home and shredded it. I made a delicious bowl of chicken salad for dinner tonight and will use the rest in salads or freeze for later. I froze the broth and will pull that out later for soup. A good purchase for $5.
Chicken salad is on my list of possibilities this week. Easy for lunch and a good way to use it up.
I love it. How do you make yours? When I make it at home, I do a really simple chicken, chopped egg, celery, mayo, a bit of lemon juice, s&p.
I mean, depends what we have, but ideally would be Mayo, red onion, celery, celery seed, salt, pepper. My signature is to smash the hell out of the chicken with the back of the spoon once mixed with everything.
Edit - need tomato in the house for a sandwich, otherwise it’s a wrap with Italian dressing.
I love celery seed and salt.
Looks like Aldi is a popular choice, thanks :)
My plan is to make a chicken burrito bowl. Wrap it in some tortillas, and hope they’ll last a week.
If you’ve got a ton left, wrap them tortillas up in parching paper, freeze them, then take them out and microwave when you want.
Usually make 10-12 breakfast burritos once a month and freeze them for easy access.
Costco if you have a membership. If not, price it out with the membership. Costco is life.
We’re Sams Club folks.
I don't know the difference between Sam's and Costco prices on chicken but you want to do research, you can buy a gift card to Costco. That way you get in and get their prices without membership
The fresh market has chicken breast and ground chuck on sale on Tuesdays- 3.99 a pound I think.
This person is just asking for help buying chicken why are yall downvoting him? 😭
Def Aldi
I hit the local grocery store when they mark down the meat, buy lots of it, freeze it, and cook when needed.
My ma does that too
Smart ma! :)
Wegmans I believe is 3.09/lb for the family pack which runs $14-$16.
Tom Leonard's will often do $1.99 a lb. I saw a sign for this price on Friday when I drove by.
Tom Leonard's is incredibly shady. Just look up Tom Leonard in the sub
I know. If they want to use chicken as a loss leader, I have no issues walking into the store and only buying that one item.
Well, there goes my evening. Off to seek out information! Lol.
Aside from being a SOB.. they'll often bait and switch items..like..they'll advertise say.. lobster tails for $3 each, and then when you get there, they're tiny and bundled in 5 packs. So now you end up paying close to $20 after taxes for less meat than you would get in a can.
Canned lobster sounds disgusting. Is it good? Lol.
Thanks for the heads up, I went in once because I’m originally from the SW and was craving some Sonoran style Mexican food. Couldn’t find green chilis at other stores in the immediate area. Now I know to avoid them, or at least be vigilant.
I was using lobster as an example of personal experience.. Canned lobster is perfectly fine if you are using it as part of something larger. It's very much used commercially in restaurants and food production. Raw lobster goes in the can... sealed. And then the heat of pasteurization cooks it in the can.. no worse than canned tuna, crab.. etc.. The crab in take out crab rangoon i can guarantee came out of a can. Wanna make a lobster bisque.. thats a couple cans of tail meat added at the end of the process, so it juat heats up.
A friend of mine also got reamed out and fired on first day by the dude because she was taking a picture of some piping tips.. dude accused her of trying to steal his recipes and threatened to smash her phone.
What brand(s) do you recommend? I’ve tried canned seafood and it tastes/smells very fishy. I think I was ruined by getting seafood in Alaska but lobster bisque is one of my absolute favorites!
I usually just get what my wholesaler has in stock or what's cheapest at the store, honestly.. I also have a restaurant depot card, so same deal..
Ok great, I’ll try it out soon. Appreciate it!
Aldi
aldi
Usually Kroger has chicken breast for $2/lb.
Always worth checking Kroger’s on sale meat bins. Once in a while they’ll heavily discount large containers of chicken breasts, great if you have freezer space.
I always check the sale meat at Kroger. Awhile back I bought eight packs of organic ground beef for $1/lb. I cooked it all that night a pound at a time and froze it in 1 lb bags. It’s been great for making quick spaghetti, tacos, etc.
I've never seen it less than $4.50 there
The Heritage Farm ones are $2-2.50 a pound depending on if it's on sale and it's 5 or 6 huge breasts. Comes out to be around $10 for the pack but it's a lot of chicken.
Fresh to Frozen Grocery Salvage. Just got perdue large packs with six big breasts per pack for 3.99 each. I bought 4 packs. Ate some last night they were great. You never know what you are going to get there.
This place is amazing for unexpected bargains! Glad to hear the chicken was good.
Where is this?
I just looked. It's at 7803 Midlothian Tnpk between Chippenham and Powhite Pkwys.
It's like a food thrift store. You have to go and see what they have but deals go fast. I'll buy something and go back the next day for more and it's gone. And if your grocery store ambiance experience is important to you this is not your kind of place.
Good idea! And it’s close to me. Like u/chada37 was saying, you’ve gotta walk in there with an open mind. There’s something new every day. You might even walk out with things you didn’t even go there for.
Costco roasted chickens are a great deal, too. Sometimes I buy one and can eat various meals from it for a week. It’s a time saver, too.
Lidl and Aldi
The best tasting and best texture chicken breast is going to be the Bell & Evans at Whole Foods. However it's pricier at $8/lb
Fresh Market on Tuesdays $3/lb and it actually tastes like chicken
Aldi! On Sunday I got packs of two chicken breasts (boneless) for 50 percent off so like 3.50 per pack!
Costco
Just get them from Walmart. Sheesh.
If you have a Harris Teeter close by, they have family packs on sale for $2.99/pound. Sign up for a evic card.
The closest Harris Teeter is either Charlottesville or Williamsburg…
Ok. It was just an option.
Ah gotcha. In that case, HEB usually has awesome deals on chicken
skeevy-stevie t1_j6el6am wrote
Back on our Aldi kick lately. Not sure the exact price per pound, but a pack of three breasts was like $11, but the “family pack” of six+ breasts was $14…
I just buy the big one, trim it all on Sunday before trash pickup on Monday. If I use it over the next couple days, cool, otherwise I freeze the rest.
Will use the frozen ones for something in the crockpot or soup or something down the road.
Somewhat related… dozen eggs are $3.99 at aldi.