ghenges
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- Jul 18, 2003
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buying a whole chicken and deboning it yourself will probably save even more
We used to buy whole chickens and cut it up into pieces (bone in). What we've found is that a 6lb chicken will cost around $6-$7 but when you trim the fat and minus the parts without much meat on it (mostly the back part) you get about 4.5 to 5lbs of meat. It somehow worked out that the drumsticks were almost as equal in value. We usually get packs of legs, thighs, wings and breasts and put a little from each into those large ziplock bags and freeze it. The messiness and chore of cutting up the chicken was too much to where we were okay "splurging" on the pre-cut pieces.