Looking For Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

[Drake89]

Stocking up on some Chicken breasts. Anyone see any good deals recently? Maybe even at a local Asian food market in the GTA.

Let me know.

[matdwyer]

Stocking up on some Chicken breasts. Anyone see any good deals recently? Maybe even at a local Asian food market in the GTA.

Let me know.

A couple different options - the main discount grocers will have the best deals, in my opinion, but the chicken tastes like crap. You can get $3 ish bucks a pound on a good sale, but to me it isn't worth it.

Option 2 is Costco - I just bought $200 worth the other day as they had their $26 packs for $6 off - worked out to be $20 for 8 large pieces, and it tastes very good.

Option 3 - The St. Lawrence Market is good to haggle - go in and say you're buying for a body building competition or something and you need 75 lbs - they'll give you a bunch of huge bags, and you can haggle the price down about $1-$1.50 per pound less then their posted price. These chicken breasts are ridiculously big and good - just freeze them individually (I made the mistake of freezing them in the bag and not thinking, now I have a 25 lb bag of frozen chicken to tackle one day.

[Cas77]

Go to the US..you can bring back 44lbs of chicken per person.

If you don't care about quality or brine Price Chopper in the U.S. has frozen split breasts for $1/lb

If you want fresh B/S you can likely find a grocery store that has them inder $2lb this week.

[Cheap Cat]

Go to the US..you can bring back 44lbs of chicken per person.

If you don't care about quality or brine Price Chopper in the U.S. has frozen split breasts for $1/lb

If you want fresh B/S you can likely find a grocery store that has them inder $2lb this week.

I buy my chicken in the US as well. Since the OP is in Toronto, Wegmans in Niagara Falls, NY has an ongoing special on fresh boneless/skinless chicken breasts for $1.99 lb.

[plymouthhater]

Sam's Club in Niagara Falls NY - typical price fresh not frozen by the 40lb case is $1.60 lb
Whole fresh not frozen chickens BTW are under $1 lb

[hoponpop]

No Frills starting Friday - $3.44/lb. That's as good as it gets. Stock up.

[Jorpho]

Anything wrong with M&M? They're not always on sale, of course, but it happens fairly often.

[Drake89]

Go to the US..you can bring back 44lbs of chicken per person.


I buy my chicken in the US as well.

Wow can't believe I never thought of it before, I do a lot of cross border shopping, but the thought of cross border grocery/meat shopping never crossed my mind. I actually have a Buffalo trip planned this weekend (less than 24hrs), Does the 44lbs allowance require a specific amount of time in the US? I don't mind paying duties, would just hate to have some of my chicken confiscated for importing over the weight allowance.


Sam's Club in Niagara Falls NY

Those are awesome prices compared to what we have here, do you personally have a Sam's Club card? I was reading on-line and noticed it is possible to shop without a membership just a 10% up-charge applies, just curious if that's actually true.

[Supercooled]

Wouldn't gas negate the savings? I'd hate to spend like $20 bucks on gas and all that time only to find out the savings are like $10.

Nofrills has some sale on chicken breast this week but it's the packed variety. About $3.xx for a kilogram. Got 4 nice size chicken breasts for about $8.

Thing is though, the stuff they packaged is frozen and defrosted, right? THe colour of the breasts look really pinkish and not right compared to the stuff they have in the counter which is nice and beige and it's soft and pliable but the stuff in the prepacking looks like it's made of jello or something.. jsut very stiff.

[CSK'sMom]

Wow can't believe I never thought of it before, I do a lot of cross border shopping, but the thought of cross border grocery/meat shopping never crossed my mind. I actually have a Buffalo trip planned this weekend (less than 24hrs), Does the 44lbs allowance require a specific amount of time in the US? I don't mind paying duties, would just hate to have some of my chicken confiscated for importing over the weight allowance.



Those are awesome prices compared to what we have here, do you personally have a Sam's Club card? I was reading on-line and noticed it is possible to shop without a membership just a 10% up-charge applies, just curious if that's actually true.

There are loads of us that do all our groceries in the US. ;) The poultry/dairy limits has no time exemption, it's because we have marketing boards here. The only time of year we really ever see BSO's enforce any of the food limits is Thanksgiving with turkeys.

We have a Sams Club membership and yes they do upcharge with no membership, just like Costco here does. The membership is cheaper than Costco and very worth it IMO. They carry loads of stuff that we've never seen anywhere else.

[Cheap Cat]

Wouldn't gas negate the savings? I'd hate to spend like $20 bucks on gas and all that time only to find out the savings are like $10.


Living in the GTA, I don't go down just to pick up groceries or you are right, the gas negates the savings. I do go down several times a year to pick up things I can't get here, or to pick up packages ordered online that don't ship to Canada or ship at ridiculous rates. So while I'm there, I stock up on things I need including groceries. I take a cooler with me, and buy ice down there. I leave my grocery shopping until the end of the trip. Not everything is cheaper but chicken is and of course, they have a wide variety of products that you don't get here. You can also do well if you check the online coupon sites before you go. Since online coupons scan there, US stores don't have issues taking them. Of course, you also fill up your gas tank before heading back home.

If you are worried about wasting gas, plan your trip well before you go. All the major stores have their flyers online.

[Supercooled]

Living in the GTA, I don't go down just to pick up groceries or you are right, the gas negates the savings. I do go down several times a year to pick up things I can't get here, or to pick up packages ordered online that don't ship to Canada or ship at ridiculous rates. So while I'm there, I stock up on things I need including groceries. I take a cooler with me, and buy ice down there. I leave my grocery shopping until the end of the trip. Not everything is cheaper but chicken is and of course, they have a wide variety of products that you don't get here. You can also do well if you check the online coupon sites before you go. Since online coupons scan there, US stores don't have issues taking them. Of course, you also fill up your gas tank before heading back home.

If you are worried about wasting gas, plan your trip well before you go. All the major stores have their flyers online.

So what kind of stuff do you pick up there? Electronics? Meds? I'm really predictable like most and go down to shop for clothes and if I'm honest, the thought of shopping for groceries has never entered my mind prior to this thread.

[Cas77]

So what kind of stuff do you pick up there? Electronics? Meds? I'm really predictable like most and go down to shop for clothes and if I'm honest, the thought of shopping for groceries has never entered my mind prior to this thread.

Electronics are not worth it for a day trip.

Most OTC meds are much cheaper (pain killers, vitamins,...). Most prescriptions are also ALOT cheaper but some aren't..it's a tricky thing depending on when a drug patent will expire there versus here etc. Also some Rx here are OTC there and vice versa (no dispensing fee = alot cheaper)...you just need to find a pharmacist who will take a Canadian Rx. Walgreen and CVS won't but smaller independents usually will, I've even had luck at Walmart. Eyeglasses and even eye exams are much cheaper too and they'll finish a script from here.

Other than that razor blades I will never buy in Canada again...processed foods (not my thing but it's alot cheaper).

Fruits and veggies are hit and miss...usually not that much cheaper if at all. Their beef is more expensive too. If you drive down around their Thanksgiving turkeys are dirt cheap. I picked up three 19-21lbs birds last year for 29cents/lb. Perfect for Christmas...we picked up 3 and dropped 2 off at a local homeless shelter a week before x-mas. ;)

[Kuurgen]

When we went we picked up:

Milk 2.09 a jug
Cheese $2 a bar for specialty cheeses like pepper jack,swiss etc. We picked up 10 bars and they last forever so long as you don't open them ($20 of cheese would work out to almost $50 here)
Truvia -Stevia sweetener you can't get here
Coffee Cream
Chicken Wings (giant pack for $6)
Chicken Breasts at 1.99 a pound from Wegman's
Coffee Cream (big carton for $2 or $3)
Automatic soap dispenser $5 at Ollies
Beef Jerky (the big bags) $1.99 at Ollies


Oh and if you're ever hungry and want to go to the Dynasty Buffet at Boulvard Mall...don't. Simply awful.



Get the Wegman's card online for even deeper savings (thanks Csk's Mom!)

What we did was brought our GPS and just rerouted on the fly by using the POI feature. So if we wanted Wegman's just punch it in and it would reroute to the nearest one.
I swear that every corner looks the same in Buffalo. lol.

(right turns are kinda weird there too, streets don't line up.)

If you buy your full allowance of dairy and meat the trip will definitely pay for itself.
(kids clothes are non taxable IIRC)



Fruits and veggies are hit and miss...usually not that much cheaper if at all.

What exactly is the rule concerning fruits and veggies over the boarder? I told my wife not to bring stuff back, but she came back with a veggie tray that was significantly cheaper than here.

[CSK'sMom]

Most fruits and veggies are fine and no problem to bring back as most are grown in the US or actually imported into the US from Canada.

A little funny tidbit that is kind of on topic.... Hubby trucks english cukes from a greenhouse here in Niagara to a processor in Burlington. That processor then heat seals 3 cukes on a tray and sells them to Wegmans. Check the labels for country of origin! :D

[deathblow]

Just brought back 50lbs of B/S fresh chicken breasts @ 1.99/lb from Walmart, in addition, did a crap load of groceries and pciked up some supplements that I had ordered and had shipped to a pickup depot.
All in all, was a great run.