25 lbs. of Chicken

I've actually been looking forward to this post.  I'm pretty proud of savvy deal.  Did you know that Sam's club sells meat at case prices? If you have a large or extra freezer, it's really worth it. I don't, so I conspired with my mother in law to get this great deal.  Their boneless skinless chicken breasts were $1.97 a lb today in their big pkgs. Work out to about 12-13.00 per pkg with about 10-12 breasts in each one.  If you buy it by the case it's $1.66 per lb.  A case consists of 8 lg pkgs.  I asked the meat guy there to make me a case as close to 50 lbs as possible. He came in at 49.77 lbs.  $82.00 for 50 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts. Split that with my mother in law, roughly $40 a piece.  It took me almost 2 hours but I have about 12-13 meals in the freezer, for about $40.00.  Here's how I broke it all down.

My 25 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breasts

I took it 1 pkg at a time......

I took each breast and cleaned it (cut off all the yucky white stuff). Then I tried to match up equal sized breasts to keep whole.  I took the smaller ones and sliced them up for either stir fry or fajitas.

I flash froze them on a cookie sheet so I could store them in a large ziplock bag for easy use.

I Should get about 3 meals out of this bag!



I took the whole chicken breasts and packed then in packs of 5. Makes sense since there are 5 of us....

I discovered 1/2 way through that if I turn the breast over it's super easy to separate the little extra piece on the breast and use them for chicken tenders.....

I can fit 2 pkgs in 1 lg ziplock freezer bag. I made 7 meal size pgks of breasts.

 I wish I had thought of that little trick of cutting off the tenders at the beginning of the whole process.  I ended up with 36 chicken tenders flash frozen.



I can use the chicken tenders for kebabs, skillet meals, or just make chicken strips.... Hopefully it will be 3 meals worth. 

The end result...... 13 meals worth of meat for about $40.00. about $3.00 per meal for a family of 5.