Everything You Need To Know About Buying Chicken At The Grocery Store
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- It's time to hit the grocery store and show you guys all of the options of chicken and what you should buy and avoid. There are many different options wen it comes to buying chicken, and it's hard to understand what it all means. Which is why I want to break it down for you. Pay no attention to marketing terms like hormone free and cage free, they mean nothing! But do pay attention to air chilled, that is really important because water chilled chicken is is bland and chewy because of the added moisture. Fresh chicken is important too, it means the meat has never been frozen and that will produce the most optimal texture. You really want to buy organic chicken at the grocery store, the stamp means a lot. The chickens have a non-GMO organic vegetarian feed and have access to the outdoors. Below are the most common store bought organic brands you can find at the stores. I hope this video helps you pick the best chicken and understand where it comes from. Mad Love, Bobby...Dessi..Art XOXO
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“I wanna start over here with the worst chicken you can buy”
*Grabs the same pack of chicken I have been getting this whole time*
😂😂😂😂
Yup. I have that in my fridge rn and I’m making it for dinner lol.
Forreal smh 🤦🏾♂️
TheArnotts 😂
😂😂😂😂sameee
My daughter has a 60 acre farm and she has Hens , Rooster , Ducks and they are free range. She buys baby chicks and has ample space for them to grow and her feed for them is organic . Her husband gets honey with his bees. Thank you for this video as you were great educating others!😎🐥🐓
She’s living my dream. Unlimited protein.
thats awsome shes doing good for herself
Well.LaTeDa,how does that help me?!
I buy Organic when my budget says I can, but feeding a family of 6 does not always allow me that pleasure, THANKS for the Info
Do it when you can, that's deffinetly better than not :)
I'm new to all this, still struggling to always get hold of quality stuff tbh.. getting there 💪
Plus we are UK & the are shops are inferior.
All we can do is our best at any given moment with what information and means we have. We keep an eye on sales (stores sometimes will have sales on the air chilled chicken and grass-fed beef, too) and buy an extra two to portion out and freeze. We also STRETCH the meat for our family of four my using it in stews, pasta dishes, or as portioned toppings on mostly veggie or rice dishes. After meal planning and checking the grocery store sales online, we go to the grocery store with our list and stay out of the center aisles as much as possible, which saves A TON of money, too. Hope these ideas can be helpful for families on a budget. ❤
@THE BHSP not everyone is you. What you eat may not be what others eat
"Any animal that has a lot of stress, that's gonna affect its flavor, quality and texture"
Me:Damm i probably taste like crap.
Lol
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Then I taste good.😂
I had that same thought!
Lmao
A lot of people don’t understand that chickens are actually carnivores. I raise chickens on my land and they are supposed to be eating worms and bugs and stuff not a vegan diet. They occasionally will kill mice as well.
F L Put a dead pig in front of them and they'll peck him to the bone in no time. They are also cannibals.
Well it is believed that chickens are actually the closest relatives to dinosaurs like the trex and raptors so I didn't find that shocking at all.
I don't doubt that but what are the consequences of feeding it vegetarian food?
@@itsmesteve1081 Facts 🏁🏁🏁🙏
eggs are better too
Thank you guys! You have really changed the way I see food and my preferences when going grocery shopping. I changed to pasture raised eggs since your video about eggs. What i love the most is knowing WHY i am choosing the products I choose, knowing that the labels mean! Keep it up!!!
JuLiaNa aRéVaLo aRéVaLo me too. Now I buy pasteurized eggs too and told my family
right in Juliana, thats why we make the videos!! keep up the good work.
Same here...
Don't pay full price for the expensive eggs if the shelf life is less than a week. -dairy departments are supposed to mark them down which helps if you eat them soon, or boil them
@@BobbyParrish Same! Even if I can't afford pasture raised chicken or free-range eggs that week, I still look for the next best option based on what I've learned watching these vids! Anytime I see any Vital Farms eggs or butter go on sale I jump on it lol
Man this video is making me feel bad for chickens tbh ....
I have to buy eggs from chickens that can run around too! poor things! not ok they are abused this way! Bad enough we eat them?
Jeanie Delgado, I’m going to kill one of my chickens just cause of this comment😂 you just killed a chicken you heartless snowflake
@@bravobear1844 I think you're the one who killed it
TinySoccerBall, haha yeah
@@bravobear1844 so did you actually kill your chicken because of the opinions of some stranger on the internet? Please tell me life has more meaning to you than that.
The UA-cam algo brought me here. Wasn’t expecting much... But actually very informative and well put together without the fluff and filler. Good job guys.
Thank you for going over Chicken!!!! It's so confusing in the store and I learned so much in this video. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much for these videos! You break it down to easily understand the WHY behind buying better foods etc. I have totally changed the way I buy things (cost is still a factor but I am trying as much as possible) and each one of these videos continues help so much so thank you! Keep these coming!
Thank you for the knowledge, I'm a stay at home pregnant mom trying to feed us all healthy meals!!
Bobby, we love your channel! Thanks for showing us how to make healthier food choices, which encompass more humane and environmentally-sound farming practices. We look forward to your upcoming show on beef. Please also consider adding shows on healthier and humanely-raised pork and fish.
God bless you! You’re literally saving lives. Please do keep it going. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bobby & Paul, this was so informative! I've been very guilty of just buying whatever was the best price, and honestly, I feel ashamed. I'll definitely be paying more attention to my purchases, thanks to you guys!
When we know better, we do better.👍 That's why I LOVE Bobby's videos.
defo dont be ashamed, but now you know better! its all bout education
@@BobbyParrish is Celsius a healthy drink?
Bobby, thank you for explaining the "WHY" of things. It is very helpful and I appreciate it. Great videos you put out.
Thanks Bobby for the video. Paul is a welcome source of info. Thanks to him as well on the poultry housing.
Thank you Bobby, I’ve learned so much from you! Please keep doing these!
Thank you for putting the antibiotic and cage free marketing scheme out there. Coming from an agriculture background. It is so frustrating that these companies are making money off people that have less knowledge of the industry in that way.
TONS of antibiotics are used in CAFOs including chicken ones. What they dont use in chickens is HORMONES because it’s illegal and also unneeded because broiler chickens in CAFOs were selectively bred to grow to ridiculous sizes in only 2.5months without the need of hormones.
Thankyou,thankyou, thankyou so much, I love that you gave brand names to buy from several different grocery stores,I hope you have one on beef, I gotta search ❤️❤️❤️
Your videos like this are incredibly informative and MUCH appreciated. Would love if you could break down more categories, i.e beef, bacon, sandwich meats etc. Thank you FlavCity! :)
Your videos are so informative! Things I never knew, thanks for breaking the code on marketing schemes. Keep em coming! 👍🏼
I'm moving back to the US and this is very useful. It's very overwhelming when you go to the store for the first time and you don't know anything about the different brands.
This video came at the perfect time! I just went grocery shopping this past week and I was buying chicken and I kept going back and forth between this more expensive air chilled, better diet chicken thighs, and the cheaper chicken thighs that didn’t say anything about the chicken feed or if it was air chilled. I was stuck also because I am a student and so I can’t afford to buy organic or the highest quality all the time, so I ended up having to compromise and buy one pack of the air chilled better quality chicken thighs and one back of the cheaper brand of chicken thighs. I wish I could afford to buy only the best quality produce that is better for the animals, but I try to make the most mindful choices on what I buy when I can afford to. Either way I am still really glad to have watched your video and to know now what to keep an eye out for so that in the future I can choose the better option or I at least know what the better option is.
This channel is heaven sent!!! Going to recommend it to all my friends!
I am really changing the way I shop for food because of these videos! Thanks again to you both
love to hear that!
I have tried ‘Katie’s Best’ air-chilled (organic version also) from Meijer. Tastes better than all others. The issue with Walmart organic and most other organic ones are that they are still water chilled.
Wow. Love this guy! I have learned alot, and love the cook book too!
Just found this info today! So glad.
I’m so thankful for this information you are putting out there. I only buy organic chicken after I watched the movie food inc years and years ago. This video reminded me today how bad the industry is relating this!! So gross. Love your channel!!! Subscribed!
They don't teach you this in school but they should. Thank you for making this.
Thanks Bobby & Paul! Wonderful information! I used to raise chickens. No matter how clean you keep their coop you can’t stop them from eating their poop! LOL, but yes, very important to buy healthier chickens from places that actually try to keep their living area clean.
Curious, why do they eat their own poop?
thanks Tina, so glad to hear it from the source!
@@ellenwilliams810 yeah, would like to know why they would do that
@@ellenwilliams810 Well when I had rats they would sometimes do this, has to do with coprophagia inefficient digestive systems.
Mine were always hungry & I fed them grains twice a day & food scraps once a day. That’s 3 meals. They are also carnivorous so if one is injured you must put it in a cage so has time to heal or the other chickens will peck it to death. They have quite the personality & followed me around. I do miss my them.
Another great video. Thanks Bobby.
Can you do a video about regular milk and the best lactose brand?.
Great video ! Chicken is essential for me on a daily basis and always needed a video like this to see what are the pros and cons of each sort of chicken !!
Fantastic video Bobby. You are addressing exactly what we need to know as consumers! For an idea, would you cover what they call the dirty dozen? The foods that you should definitely buy the organic version of? I would love to hear your take. I SO look forward to these types of videos. I learn important stuff EVERY TIME. Even if I know something about the subject. #perfection
wow, love to hear that, thanks!! yes, great idea about the dirty dozen..will add to my list.
I love these videos informing me about the truth surrounding food at the grocery store. So helpful. Love it. Thanks so much.
Thank you so much for your videos it took me so long to realize your channel is so informative, already change my cooking oil and my pantry has been completely renewed, I can't wait to get your book, thanks again for changing people's life's. Blessing to you and your family.
Thank you so much for introducing me to Eat Wild! This is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time! Keep up the awesome videos :)
you are correct. I worked for a chicken plant and my job was the chiller operator. After the chickens are slaughtered ,defeathered and degutted they left the hot side and came to me which was the cold part. I was responsible for keeping the chillers filled with the correct amount of water and chemicals. when they tested the birds for temp and moisture once it exited the chillers and it didn't gain the amount of moisture they wanted to make the birds look bigger then I would get in trouble.
FYI Aldi also has organic chicken under their Simply Nature label. I can usually find whole chickens and chicken breasts.
thats awesome..i have not seen that !
Haven’t seen that yet at Aldi either. I’ll have to check it out next time I’m there. I always save so much at Aldi then Wegmans. But I usually find Wegmans has fresher meat options. Though I will say Aldi has amazing gold star smoked salmon that is also affordable and delicious for lox bagels.
Yes! They do have organic chickens. 😀😁
I wonder if Aldi sells organic chicken tenders? I just bought Purdue organic chicken tenders from Walmart.
Just subscribed! Appreciate your dedication and knowledge! Thanks again for your passion for healthy food and being so informative...
Thank you guys, have a great weekend!
Seriously thank you. Trying to educate myself about nutrition after a lifetime of a “food is food” mindset in order to help an ailing relative & myself while I’m at it. Keep it up please.👍
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Omg, I really love your channel and appreciate all the knowledge you are sharing with us, thanks!!🤗🤗👍👍👍
thanks for the love, pour pleasure!
Huge Bobby's fan here. Thank you for educating AMericans to eat better and healthier.
Thank you for sharing and taking the time out to educate us (the public) on this information. You never know what to do and buy now it's overwhelming.
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Thank you for reminding us of all the green washing labels. You are awesome! Here is a plug for pasture raised meat in Georgia: White Oak Pastures. They will ship.
thanks for sharing that, plenty of farms that will ship!
Chanda Harkins thank you 🙏🏼
This is so helpful! I look forward to your videos every Saturday morning!
sunday morning and live streams during the week ;0 Thanks!
Thank you for the informational video and keep having Paul on the videos he’s awesome
Thanks much for this awesome info..this was very much needed.
Can you give your views on the cornish hen available at Whole foods?
Also weather is advisable to buy chicken from local farmers market?
Good info, guys! Thanks for your efforts and look forward to more informative videos!
Gotta say I was impressed with some of the information you gave! I come from a livestock background and my fiance is a poultry scientist, so I know way too much about chickens. Thank you for talking about hormones and cage-free labels when it comes to market poultry, I know that this confuses a lot of people. In my opinion the organic label is a bit of a marketing gimmick with poultry. If you read the USDA guidelines, they do say that you have to give the poultry (weather and health permitting) access to the outdoors. However, they do not specify the amount of outdoor space they must have. This means that you can have a small outdoor space that can only accommodate a few chickens and still be considered organic since you meet all of the other qualifications.
“A bit”? My understanding is that ‘big organic’ keeps the chicks inside until they learn to stay inside, THEN they are given a small door opening to a very small space. They have “access”, but would never go out because of conditioning.
These practical vids are awesome. Stuff that usually gets skipped or afraid to ask thinking it's too basic. Which it isn't, imho. It takes experience to know this! Thank you!
Wow that’s a Lesson learn thank you guys so much I am in a Low income budget senior citizen so I was buying the wrong ones even ought it was cheaper it was doing me no good with my health and I thank you both for that I’m keeping your Channel as long I’m still alive this is very helpful for me and my autistic son which also have health problems and needs to eat healthier thanks you you I bought your book to I can learn how to cook different meals I am 67 and all I know how to cook is Spanish meals because I am from Puerto Rico is hard because I was so use to eating the Spanish means so glad that you are doing this not only for me but you are showing the world how to cook healthy and stay away from medication and hospitals this is what this world needed I just don’t understand why these stores keep selling things that will kill people later on is very hard for seniors that lives by themselves and don’t know how to cook or have the Energy to do it glad that I still have the strength to keep going on strong 💪 with all your meals I thank you again and may God bless you and your family and friends that’s helping people to eat healthier 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏
I would love if you did a “stock your kitchen for a week of meals” video! That would be so helpful!
Yes
How about coming up with your OWN "stock your kitchen for a week of meals"?? Plenty of information out there, or come up with creative ideas.
Wow...thx so much. I thought I knew a fair amount but didn't know about the air-chilled.
I love it when you do these kind of videos! Please do one on where to buy pre packaged meat like deli meat, hot dogs, bacon etc.!
Thanks for doing all the videos, make me have a better choices when I shopping for my family 😀👍
OMG...I had no idea. I will be changing my buying habits. Thanks
Please make the beef one ... I’ve really changed my families diet from finding your channel and I’ll take everything! .... and do grocery hauls! 👍
Another awesome video! Keep em coming Bobby! Loving your educational style of tips in the grocery store! ❤️ Chi-town in the house! Jae🤣
Eye opening. Thank you so much 😊 you answered my question in regards to bulk generic chicken breast, I wondered why is was so terrible. Well done 👍🏻
It's as if you read my mind.....I so needed this.
Wonderful information about chicken, thank you Bobby, this was very informative.
my pleasure Angie!
I agree. Thanks for the good info. But I believe that's it's no longer true that they "can't support their weight." I understand that they had that problem for a few years around 2008-2011 and then they bred out those Genes.
@@nicholausjamesjay83 still isn't healthy, especially what they're fed and how they're confined
Thank you for breaking things down! It was a very informative video. 👍 Definitely hope to see more of these kinds of videos!
👍🏼 We plan to make more of them.
Dude, I learn a lot from your videos. You're like me, I read labels and don't buy products with red, blue dyes, sodium nitrate, or any un-natural preservatives.
Super!!! Freaking helpful!!!! Because I never know (expected I knew) about this stuff!
Great information - I am really learning a lot from your channel!
Thanks you for educating us the way to shop and what too look for when you're shopping you're a God sent thank you
Love this video and love to cook...great information, irregardless of all the opinions of everyone in the world, that's life. But I am an information junkie so I greatly enjoyed it, and you gave me a lot to think about and understand. I'm going to tune in to more of your videos, thanks.
i was told since i wanna lose weight i have to lower my fat intake to lose weight so im glad you doing this chicken review
Very informative ❤ use your information when grocery shopping
Pls do an episode on
*milk
*Beef
Thank you much!!
great ideas, on my list now!
@@BobbyParrish MILK! Especially great since you're going to be a parent soon and I just transitioned my baby to whole milk at 1yr of age (as recc) and was so torn as to which milk to buy.
Great video. What about if you're at Kroger's Tho?
Buy raw milk from your local farmer done. Pasturized dairy is useless and has virtually no nuttition and hard to digest. Buying from your local farmer is cheaper and better chance of being high quality.
@Ann L ok ty much
Your channel is amazing, you always explains very well, Thank you very much.
From Australia.
Great vid Bobby, u missed a cereal called Uncle Sam, its got the best numbers for protein, fiber and sugar. The trouble is all these cereals have a ton of carbs. Even cheerios which has no sugar, but still has alot of carbs. Btw some of these cereals are way too expensive.
I'm a bad person, I was getting very judgy when that shopper snuck in behind to buy the chicken Bobby just told us to skip. Thanks for the info!
ha, i think he grabbed organic harvestland!?
When you on a budget, standards are out the window my friend
Exactly
Buy more healthful meat which are indeed more expensive, but, use it more as accompaniment rather than the main show. Just get enough to get fat and proteins from it. Afterall, what the animals eat is what we eat.
@David Bowman Put down the chips and soda and buy grass fed beef instead for the same money. I bet you make room for that stuff in your budget. A big bag of broccoli and grass fed beef can go for 3 meals for 2 easy. 10$.
If that's the case then you're better off and should be able to afford organic rice and beans. Otherwise, you risk poor health/cancer with all that low quality meat.
BlankSpace niggah you can’t spend $2 more for chicken?
how do you know? where do you learn all of the things? you are amazing! thank you for sharing this❤️
Amazingly informative!! Thank you.
tldr; buy the most expensive chicken there is, it's gonna be healthiest. there i saved you 8minutes
Isaia Costa doing the lord’s work
Healthy chicken is an oxymoron. Chicken is the best meat to give you hormonal imbalances that will lead to man boobs, or gynecomastia.
@@V_Deity what's the best meat to eat? I'm guessing steak?
Nostalgic Bliss Man don’t listen to him, there are plenty of body builders who achieve great physiques eating chicken. Do yourself a favor and do some research before believing some crazy claim in the internet.
@@nostalgicbliss5547 well no, meat in general is bad for you. You can attain any protein and vitamin from plants.
Very interesting, I had a feeling those rotisserie chickens that I was buying weren't top of the line
Thank you for the information. Makes sense. The only question is who is really keeping track if the organic and non organic chickens are getting mixed up?
I really appreciate this information! Thank you!
Don’t let labels fool you just cuz it says organic don’t mean it’s healthy 👌🏾
really? now Im confused!
Also it doesn't mean animals treated humanely :{
Yup, Organic labeling is another trick designed to fool consumers into thinking it's better when in fact it is pretty much meaningless.
stop spreading misinformation.
organic = non gmo, no antibiotics, etc.
no one thinks it means the chicken was treated like a queen before slaughter.
When have GMOs been a bad thing? There’s also no such thing as a GMO chicken.
The main problem is pure and simple. $5 for 5 drumsticks or $7 for 16 drumsticks. Having a 6 member household, $15 - $20 for 1 item on the table ( not including the veggies --which have the same problem with pricing--or rice that go on as a side ) and now multiply that to last until the following payday, just isn't realistic. That is ultimately where the marketing hook exists. They want you to eat healthy but make it affordable to only a few and that is the major problem in the U.S. why more people aren't eating as healthy as they should. Not because they don't want to, but they can't afford to 9 times out of 10.
Agree👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You could also consider not buying these things at all and replacing them with other protein sources that don't involve meat. There's really no excuse.
@@lf2334 You need to live in the real world. People have different lives, there ARE excuses. So black and white for you vegans it's unreal
@@whywhy7299 I'm not vegan. I eat meat almost daily. I don't recall mentioning that I was vegan. You must have misread. Please share some of the excuses with me that people could have for eating low quality meats. I'd love to hear your thoughts as opposed to mindless statements with no facts to back them up. Thanks!
How bout start hustling & stop being broke & then this won’t be a thought in your mind.
I love this information thanks Paul and Bobby
Your videos are always so helpful! I'm sharing this on my Facebook page.
The stuff he finds at Walmart is NEVER at my Walmart.
He lives in a rich area
Walmart is not very good quality to cheap lol sams is better although same company
Can you make a video on household products like cleaners or shampoo tooth paste deodorant lotion hair gels
For some reason UA-cam recommend me one of your videos and now I am here taking noted everything you said on every videos. I always thought America have the best quality food ever but I guess you have to do your homework before go to the grocerry. Thanks for giving away free knowledge!
Thank you guys for all you do.
I love this information place do condiments like jelly and syrup please
Man, does this make me feel like going vegetarian or back to farming. In ILLINOIS and being a senior, you cannot afford high quality good food. Gotta move.
Most people can't afford top shelf. Sad
A wonderful video! What should I choose between pasture-raised vs. organic (but not pasture-raised), if they are the same price?
Hi Bobby, thanks for the info! I fear I've been failing with chicken all these years😱😰. And I even did a big chicken haul last night and bought some on sale. But I'll be writing down these tips and shopping with these the next time I buy chicken. And Paul had some great insights too.
👍🏼 Good to hear!
Thanks Paul. so much appreciate you.. Thanks for giving us some great knowledge on chickens.. I know you will be back on again..Bobby Thank you as well. I so much appreciate you and your wife, you guys are the sweetest and most adorable couple and love it when you both ate in the kitchen together.. Loved seeing it the other day when she was dying the eggs and you were cooking, and then you and her and Art sat down to eat the great meal you cooked for us to see how to cook it. Art you are the best too.. we can never forget you.. If it was not for you we would never get to see the great photos and the videos.. you are awesome.. God bless you guys.. Love you all.. and babyflav it coming soon.. praying for you guys...
wow..that is so sweet Bobbi..thanks for the loving words! live streams are the best..we do them every week! click the bell icon under any video to get a push notification
This is really good to know. I recently have been trying to slowly convert to better foods for my son and I. I wish I could completely jump over, but financially, I have to pick and chose.
little by little!
Yes! Great topic!! Thanks Bobby!!
I love your videos ❤️ Thanks for keeping us educated!!
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$4.50 for 1.5 lbs!?!? I need this, I just paid almost $9 for 1.3lbs
Woah! Where do you live? That's crazy high.
Mmmmmmm Los Angeles, baby
I live in the bay area close to San Francisco no way organic chicken is that cheap lol 😂
@Raymond Palacios what makes you say that?
@Raymond Palacios I fear for the day, haha
Hearing all this makes me not want to eat meat again. (I mean... I’m still gonna eat it lol but ugh). Thanks for the video, yes please do beef next
B Davis,
I strongly encourage you to watch the documemtary "what the health" on Netflix.
Meat is good. It's healthy for us. The meat industry is the problem. They're destroying farms and killing is through our food.
Paleo Way on Netflix. If you portion control you can afford good food.
I will stop eating meat 😒☹
dont stop eat meat is worse
Great video I will be looking into this for sure when I go on Saturday to shop for my BBQ.. YOU ROCK!!!
Paul is great! Info is super helpful!