Shop at a local market or butcher if possible, the quality is vastly supeeior. At mine the chicken is all hand trimmed with no fat hiding underneath, unlike say shoprite where ya get fat and tendons. Even the usda choice beer is way better quality than the supermarkets.
The prices are higher, but theres good meat specials every week or every other week. Plus I wind up spending less than if I goto the supermarket because I stick to just what I need without impulse buys. Just stock up on paper good, garbage bags, etc at the super market/wholesale.
Chicken without far is dry, disgusting food. Not to mention less healthy than chicken with fat.
Boneless skinless should not have fat attached. It gets oiled and seasoned and will stay moist. If buying bone in meat like whole breast or thigh, yes its going to have fat. Even then though, it shouldnt have a huge slab of excess fat attached which the supermarket left on for extra weight.
Watch out for vegetable seed oils. They are very unhealthy. Polyunsaturated oils like canola, grape seed, corn oil, peanut oil, etc. readily oxidize and the byproducts drive oxidative stress in the body. Saturated fats are much more resistant to oxidation.
Between grape seed oil and chicken fat, the chicken fat is far more healthy.
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