I am trying to buy frozen 100% chicken breast and I am struggling...

Posted 11th Sep 2022

Frozen chicken is often pumped full of water/other ingredients so the weight is bigger.
But I want to buy just normal chicken breast withouth that.

Waitrose seem to sell it but I cannot see that anyone else do. (And obiviously Waitrose are quite expensive...)

Does anyone know of anyone apart from Waitrose that sell it? A lot of supermarket websites seem ambigous about it.

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11th Sep
Go direct to a butcher rather than a supermarket.
1st Dec
Still doesn't mean it isn't free of added water....
11th Sep
These people have been around a while:
musclefood.com/chi…tml
-no added water or salt!
-We vacuum-pack our chicken to ensure that the product stays fresh. This also means that we don't have to add salt, water or preservatives to our chicken.
11th Sep
It's not just water that's injected into the meat to bulk up the weight, it's has a preservative in the water to make it last longer on the shelf. Without this the chicken will only last a day or so.
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11th Sep
I am looking for frozen chicken though
11th Sep
Musclefood. Had 5kg of chicken breasts delivered yesterday. Great quality
11th Sep
If you can access a Costco account then the quality of all their meat is generally good.
Unfortunately the choice these days is pay to include water, or pay a lot for actual meat.
However, Waitrose are not expensive. Judge their meat before judging the price.
11th Sep
Have you tried body building websites for protein food? eg chicken.
11th Sep
Depending on quantities required, Iceland, farm foods, freezer centre, tesco, sainsburys, lidl, Aldi, local butchers, local Ethnic shop or supermarket, Food wholesalers like bookers or Costco etc.
1st Dec
Can confirm this. I pressure cooked some supermaket breasts last week (first time i tried in instant pot) and what i was left with was a portion for 1. All the water from the chicken had gone into the sauce. It was only noticeable because in the pressure cooker everything stays in it, where before i was cooking on gas i didnt see it evaporate lol. (edited)