Review: Covington Farms Split Chicken Breasts

About a week ago, one of our local grocery stores had a sale on Covington Farms Split Chicken breasts. Since my wife and I go through quite a bit of chicken in our house (it's the only meat we can afford half the time) and the sale price was less than $1 per pound, I decided to pick up a package of it and put it in our freezer for a later date.

The later date ended up being yesterday, when my wife was on a field trip with our oldest daughter and I decided to take the day off from work to spend time with our youngest child (so she didn't feel left out) and, since I was home, I figured I would throw this in the slow cooker. My original intention with this was to just have the chicken breasts with some vegetables but ultimately ended up making slow cooker chicken noodle soup (perfect for such a cold, dreary day).

When I purchased this meat, I had some concerns about it being any good. I've bought cheaper packs of chicken in the past and plenty were either just skin and bone or had a very dry, tough meat. And, many of those brands weren't very edible; even if we drowned them in barbecue sauce.

However, that ended up not being a problem with this particular brand of chicken breast. First of all, there was plenty of meat on the chicken. In fact, there was so much meat on each of the breasts, I almost wasn't able to fit them into the slow cooker (I had to rearrange them a couple times to make them fit). And, unlike so many other brands that are out there, it seemed to be decent quality meat on them. It came out moist and was falling off of the bone. And, it had a good flavor to it so I could get by with just adding a few spices and not having to disguise it with barbecue sauce.

The only thing about these breasts that I noticed was they seemed to have a lot of water in them. Part of the reason why I ended up making chicken noodle soup is the slow cooker was about half full with water from the breast meat anyway (and I didn't add anything else to the slow cooker before that). However, I don't think this was much of a problem either way; other than, had I known I was going to make chicken noodle soup, I would have removed the bones ahead of time.

Overall, I feel this is a decent brand of chicken meat and I would definitely buy it again; especially if I could find it on sale.