Wow, That's a lot of chicken!!

I was off reading blogs one night when I came upon one dedicated to frugal living.  On that page was a link to a unique company that uses co-op style buying power to sell bulk food in locations all over the US.  Being that I usually buy in bulk to feed our larger than normal family, I thought I'd give it a try.

So hubby took the drive 40 minutes away to pick-up our 40 pound box of fresh chicken breasts from the refrigerated truck that was sent by Zaycon Foods.  And later on I got to work processing the goods!

Our chicken came in a medium sized cardboard box with 4 big bags of butterfly chicken breasts.  They were processed just 3 days earlier and were large and really nice.








So after separating them into individual breasts and cutting them in half to thin them out, I packaged them in freezer bags.  The 40 pound box yielded 74 nice large pieces of chicken and three bags of chicken scraps for soups and such!  It should take us a good long time to finish all that up, let's hope!







I was feeling very lucky that the temperatures were supposed to be down in the single digits over night so I put them out on the screened porch to 'flash' freeze over night!  Tomorrow's task will be to figure out how to stuff them all into our two freezers!