47 Pound Stocking Up Deal!

We're hosting a dinner party tonight for our daughter Becky's birthday. Annette ran to the store to pick up a few loaves of french bread (for garlic bread) to accompany the huge pan of lasagna she made. Whenever we go to the store we always walk past the meat case and look for marked down meat. Today she stumbled on a great deal.

What do you do if you're the butcher and someone higher up ordered too many cases of chicken breasts and they're about to go out of code (today is June 5 and they go out of code on June 6)? What would you do?

The butcher at our local Fry's store (Kroger at 64th and Greenway) did what he thought would work — he marked the price down from $2.69 per pound to $.77. But unfortunately that wasn't good enough to move over 30 cases of expiring poultry from his cooler. So today he hand wrote a sign advertising packages of chicken breasts for $.49 per pound!

That price is just a little more than we normally pay for Turkeys at Thanksgiving. It is a price that's good enough to really stock up on. So Annette loaded our cart with 47.38 pounds of discounted chicken (four of the packages are for her parents).

The chicken haul - 14 packages. Average weight 3.2 pounds. Total weight 47.38 pounds. Total Cost $23.21. Total feeling . . . Elation!

While she was in front of the meat case several women stood and watched her loading fourteen packages of chicken into her cart. They started asking her what she could possibly do with all of that meat. She gave them a mini-seminar about the value of stocking up on discounted meat, freezing it and then incorporating it into tons of different meals in the next few months.

What would you do if you stumbled on a deal like this?

Do you have any suggestions for using up bone-in chicken breasts?