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Learned a lesson shopping for boneless turkey breasts, wanted to pass along my experience and keep others from making the same mistake.

I have been buying boneless turkey breasts at my local grocery (Super Target), and have had very good success. On a recent trip to WalMart, saw what I thought was boneless turkey breast by the same company for $1.00 per pound less. Cooked it yesterday, and discovered it was boneless turkey (not breast). It was over half dark meat. Took longer to cook and was not nearly as good as the boneless breasts I have been making (even though I like dark meat).

Just another in my series of lessons of buying any meat from WalMart. This one was my own fault, but it was misleading marketing. I should have been on my guard when it was 30% cheaper.
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I've seen uncooked turkey breast in the market, but it includes the breast bones (I guess) and I smoked one up but didn't like the amount of meat v. waste of the bones. I really wanted to find a boneless breast... but don't see those, uncooked. Are they available? Are they actually pure, unchopped and unreconstituted turkey??? Should I but a cooked, froze breast and just smoke it up??? Confused
I've yet to find turkey breast, boned or not, that hasn't been "enhanced" with "upto 18%" solution.
That's just not very appealing to me.
I buy the whole turkey, which is cheaper than the breasts alone. My wife likes the dark meat, and if there's too much for her, we vac-pack it and make dog food out of the remains.
Not sure what the areas are like where you live but, I live in the sticks of SW PA and there are local poultry processing plants, two that I know of, bbut only ever dealt with the one that is close to me. About 12-14 miles, I can get fresh poultry there, and the price does not seem bad compared to the local supermarkets. Just an idea that you could check out in your area possibly.

Dave

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