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August 31, 2015

Back in the Swing

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It’s been a little over a week since I got home from my visit with Chad, Nicole and Addie and I think I’m finally getting back into the swing of things.

Over the past few days, I’ve canned, gardened and gotten aggravated at Vince. Life has officially returned to normal!  ๐Ÿ™‚

Aldi has chicken breasts for $1.89 per pound (or something very close to that price). Friday afternoon we went to Aldi and got 5 packages of chicken breasts. That’s 20 breasts . . 20 BIG breasts. They were clean and pretty, very little fat. I was pleased with them.

Chicken Breasts

Chicken Breasts

My plan was to get up Saturday morning and start canning chicken. My plan was not to stay up til 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning knitting! But, I started working on the Anemone Hat and it was so fun and so challenging and so intriguing, I couldn’t put it down. After about midnight, I said to myself at least a dozen times . . you’re going to be sorry in the morning!

Yes, when Mr. Rooster began crowing shortly before 6 a.m., I pulled the quilt over my head and wanted so badly to go back to sleep.  But, I had chores to do and I might as well get up and get started . . so I did.

The chicken got canned and I told Vince . . some day I will learn things I should say and things I should not say to him . . but I said . . I wouldn’t mind getting 5 more packages of this chicken. Ahh . . a trip to town . . what that man lives for! So, about 3:00, we went back to Aldi. I was thinking I would get 5 more packs, put them in the fridge and can them on Monday. I was really tired and didn’t want to do more canning on Saturday evening.

At the meat counter, Vince said “How many packages do you want?” I said “5 will be good”.  Because Vince isn’t the one canning them, if 5 is good, then 7 is better. We got 7 packages. That’s 28 chicken breasts . . 28 BIG chicken breasts.

We got to the counter and I was putting the meat on the check out conveyor belt thing and . . oh, my . . what’s that smell? It smelled like rotten vomit. My hands . . whatever it was . . it was on my hands! I said to the checkout girl . . this chicken STINKS and I raced off to the bathroom to wash my hands! I said to Vince . . I don’t want to get this!

The checkout girl said “I’m thinking the mat in the chicken cooler needs to be changed and what stinks is the bottom of the packaging .. not the actual chicken. I’m thinking . . I don’t care! This smells so bad I don’t even want to take it home. Vince is thinking . . $1.89 for chicken breasts . . I don’t care how bad it smells. I’m standing there in line thinking . . either I get rude and say NO! PUT THESE BACK! I DON’T WANT THEM . . or I be the good wife and listen to my  husband and taken the stinking chicken home. We brought the stinking chicken home.

By the time we got to the car I was aggravated because even after washing my hands, I could still smell the stink; I didn’t want stinking chicken and I only wanted 5 packs and he insisted on getting 7.

Thank goodness we brought the cooler so I didn’t have to let any part of those containers touch my car. But, I also didn’t want any part of those containers to touch my fridge. When we got home, I opened them all up and sure enough, the chicken was fine. I went ahead and canned 12 more quarts, which was 14 chicken breasts, along with 2 quarts of chicken broth, and the remaining 14 breasts are in zipper bags in the fridge and I’ll can them this afternoon.

Once everything is finished and all the chicken is canned, I’ll be happy that we did it. It’s a lot of work but I guess anything worth having is a lot of work. And, I wasn’t seriously aggravated at Vince but next time I want 5 of something, I’ll tell him I want 3 . . unless, of course, we’re talking about yarn and then I’ll say I want 100 and hope he gets 150 but, really . . when was the last time Vince ordered yarn for me? Yep . . never has happened and probably never will.

 

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  1. Carolyn says

    August 31, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Yes tinkling chicken is the WORST!! Right up there with stinky fish!!!! If my DH knew I could can chicken he would have gotten more at Aldi’s too. But as it was he cleaned them of skin and bones (most of the bones) and froze them!!!! I did nothing????

  2. Quilter Kathy says

    August 31, 2015 at 11:48 am

    I miss design wall Monday… did you decide not to have that regular post Judy?
    I love hearing about your other adventures too!

  3. Dianne S. says

    August 31, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    I came home today with 3 packages of Aldi’s chicken!!

  4. Donna says

    August 31, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    Probably wasn’t funny for you but it sure was funny reading it! You’ll be so happy on a busy day…maybe when you’re quilting again!

  5. Linda Enneking says

    August 31, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    Are we not having Design Wall Monday today?

  6. Judy S says

    August 31, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    I see lots of chicken meals in your future. We eat a whole lot of chicken, too. Do you have a good way to keep skinless chicken breasts tender?

  7. Debbie Dixon says

    August 31, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    I have never heard of canning chicken. I am not much of a kitchen person but I do like to buy in quanity because I am feeding 7 people on most days. How do you can chicken?

  8. JanetB says

    August 31, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    I think Vince and my husband are related. As long as they aren’t doing the work, then more is better.

  9. Diana G says

    August 31, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Yeppers more is better with the menfolk .. must be something their mother’s engrained in the when they were wee folk. LOL Okay so that is a myth . who knows why 8 is better than 4 when I only have room for 4 or only wanted 4 .. LOL Who knows how their universe’s run, its their universe for sure !LOL ๐Ÿ˜‰

  10. Teri Jordan says

    September 1, 2015 at 10:27 am

    I was wondering what your Anemone Hat looks like. I looked it up on ravelry. And there are many different hats with that name

  11. Pam in KC says

    September 2, 2015 at 8:58 am

    For years I’ve bought flash frozen chicken breasts, but somewhere along the way I’ve decided to try and buy fresh and freeze my own to skip the ‘up to 13% solution’ the meat is frozen with. I’ve looked at Aldi’s chicken because of the prices, but I seem to recall it was injected with “solution” as a preservative so I’ve skipped it. This weekend one of the stores had fresh chicken on sale cheap — no solution, but it turns out the birds were HUGE. In fact I put up a package of 2 breasts which weighed 2 1/2 pounds. That can’t be “normal” so which is worse — huge birds given who knows what or the relatively normal size birds which have been treated with a solution.

  12. Carmi says

    September 2, 2015 at 11:31 am

    How are you canning your chicken? Boiled and shredded?

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