Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to pick up 40lbs of chicken breast from Zaycon Foods. Zaycon Foods has incredible “one day” deals for things like chicken breast or other meats. Now, we do not eat chicken everyday or even every week, so 40lbs of chicken would last us a very long time. Thankfully, I was able to enlist the help of two other families to share the load! The chicken is fresh and butterflied, so there is a bit of work to get it to what I would use for everyday cooking.
We picked up the chicken and it was placed into our car in a tidy little box. I didn’t have to lift anything! YAY! I was feeling pretty good about things. It wouldn’t take forever to get it packed up and ready. In fact, it looked smaller than I’d expected:

Not so bad
Since I’m a bit of a paranoid preggy-pants, I decided that carrying 40lbs of chicken was not in my best interest. I’m glad to have a swell brother in-law who is willing to come over during the day to help out! Thanks Patrick!
Once inside, we opened the box and found this:

Inside the box!
After the three of us worked for a bit, we ended up with 28 chicken breasts. Not bad! I made my current fave for dinner that night: chicken parmigiana (with alphabet pasta! Beatrice chose, naturally). After dinner, I got to work preparing the chicken into portions that we’d use regularly. I cut the chicken into chunks/cubes, strips and cutlets. All in all, I ended up with chicken for 11 meals, plus the dinner we ate “fresh” that day.

Foodsaver to the rescue!
And thanks to my Grandpa’s wonderful wedding gift to us, that chicken doesn’t take up much room at all in our freezer:

Packed away
The chicken does have great flavor and it was an incredible value (only $1.49/lb!), but 40lbs of chicken is a bit much for this little family. I like a good bargain as much as the next person, but I think the next “great deal” we get on a massive amount of food will have to be something we eat more frequently, like chickpeas!