Lowes Foods - $1.49lb Boneless Chicken vs. $.89lb Split Breast Chicken

[katncaed]

Title says it all. Which is better? I've never tried to figure out how much weight the bones have in the Split Chicken Breast.

Lowes Foods will have the Split Chicken Breast on sale for $.89lb next week. Just trying to figure out if I should wait for that sale or get the $1.49lb Boneless Breast on sale this week.

Both are great sale prices, but I'd rather have a little more work and de-bone the chicken myself if it will save me a few quid. :biggrin:

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Cory, I HAVE done it....I did it when Food Lion had the split on sale for $.99lb but there was a flip out (though I can't remember the value). The following week the boneless skinless chicken was on sale for $1.68 (for certain markets -not mine though). I weighed it all because I was curious like you.

FOUND IT This is from Food Lion, there was a $5/$20 Meat flip that I was using when I bought the chicken so that had to be factored in at the time.

I got 30lbs of SPLIT chicken breast this past week-I also spent a good hour plus deboning and skinning said chicken.....
I weighed the chicken after I was done-
30.26 to start
3.75 skin
10.2 bones
13.1 chicken breast

It is amazing how much "juice" was in those little soaker pads on the bottom....

Spent about $14.35 on chicken after flips....
(Cory Math
$20.08 - 8.4lb Split Chicken Breast @ $2.39lb
-$11.93 - MVP discount - sale price $.97lb
-$5.00 - $5/$20 Meat Flip
$3.15 for 8.4lb Split Chicken Breast)

So I guess I paid $1.09 per pound of actual boneless skinless chicken breast. I saved the bones to make stock out of, but I am not sure that it was really worth it....

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FOR ME

Having deboned and skinned all those freakin' chicken breasts (which I still have the bones in my freezer waiting to make chicken soup) this LF sale $1.49 ready chicken breast was worth it. BUT I also had $2/$8 coupons I used for more than half the packages making some of the 1.7+lbs packs less than $1 each.

The hard part in deboning it is there is still quite a bit of chicken left on the bone (which is why it is in my freezer waiting for soup). It makes a huge mess during the whole process too. Given the choice, IMO the boneless skinless ones for $1.49 are the better deal-less work more meat PLUS more freezer space since I am not having to freeze all those bones with meat on them, they are bulky not flat like the boneless.

And if you have no coupons (unlike my figures in the previous post) then it seems like it isn't worth it.

30lbsx.89=26.70
30lbs=13lbs without bones and skin
13x1.49=$19.37

Maybe you can get more meat off your bones, but I wsa trying really hard and I did include a bag of "tenders"' that I managed to go back and get in my bonelss measurements.

[katncaed]

So...

10.6% was chicken juice, so we will take that off the top since we can assume that will be the same no matter which chicken you buy.

30.26lb - 10.6% = 27.05lb

27.05lb Bone-in = 13.1lb Boneless...or a 2.07:1 ratio

$.89lb Bone-in multiplied by 2.07 = $1.84lb

So, this weeks sale price is better...assuming that Food Lions chicken is pretty close to Lowes Foods chicken...which who really knows. I believe Food Lion sales Tyson, and Lowes Foods sales Sanderson Farms.

Guess I'll be getting the Boneless...my wife will be happy. :biggrin:

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My chicken this week was kinda juicy too. When I took the chicken out of the packages to repackage it I dumped them into a strainer first.

[katncaed]

If you ignore the "juice factor," it's a bigger difference in favor of the boneless chicken.