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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Hainanese Chicken Rice—soooooo good and makes a very nice summer dish.
https://youtu.be/rGmERSKSETY
Haven’t eaten out in YEARS...
I’ve been chief cook and bottle washer for decades.
I’d love to eat out.
But the food’s way too overpriced and the cooks suck.
Sigh.
My father-in-law solved that little problem with a road cone.
—”Wake me when people start buying whole cows.”
You would not get much of a nap around my family, with an uncle that was a butcher, we used to do the whole cow on the hoof thing!
The butcher and how long it hangs and how it is cut...
Huge difference!
I’m not crazy about the clientele, either. :-)
Family lore has it my 1930s Depression era suburban forbears found a great deal on ten (10) chickens that they couldn’t pass up.
Turns out though, these were live chickens. This came as quite the surprise, and they had no experience whatsoever with slaughtering or gutting poultry or plucking or any of that kind of thing.
For some reason they decided to do this in the basement, and was quite a debacle. LOL!!
My local produce store has bread without preservatives. It only lasts a week, but I like the taste.
I love our Instant Pot pressure cooker.
Tonite I’m making eye-round roast beef. Sear it in a pan, then into the cooker. I’ll post later on how it came out.
My kid bought a quarter cow from a farmer. Farmer butchered, cut it up, vacuum-sealed, and into the freezer.
Will be curious as to when Canadian Geese become frequent table fare for the masses.
I prefer being called ”fiscally conservative “
Right, I’ve found a few really tasty ones myself. I freeze what we can’t consume before the expiration date. While we love bread, we are trying to limit how much of it we eat.
The amount of sodium and butter pump into things will kill you!
We always buy whole chickens at Costco and roast them on our Traeger. Good for at least 2 full meals.
I think the spices we put on cost more than the chicken!
—”Turns out though, these were live chickens.”
A friend won a thanksgiving turkey and accessories in a lottery at his VFW.
Not said, it was a live turkey!!!
He said it made a massive mess of his car.
He did not quite know what to do with it, but his grandmother sure did!!!
Ha!! Yeah, same kind of deal. I can still see the look on my dad’s face when he described the scene in the basement.
I’m a softie myself, I love me some beef, pork, and poultry, but try not to think about it too much. Maybe I agree with farmers that people should butcher their own meat, at least once just so they know what’s really involved. I figure support agriculture, farming, and ranching 110%. I shudder to think of what’s coming down the pike if the wack jobs get in office any more than they are. Farming is hard work.
—”Will be curious as to when Canadian Geese become frequent table fare for the masses”
I do hope they go for many of my local Canada geese!!
We have many, many around here that have never left the county, ever!
They become pests.
—”I prefer being called ”fiscally conservative “”
Call me anything but late for dinner!
Who doesn’t know how to break down a whole chicken?
L
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