Do you eat chicken? It’s the most popular meat in the United States, so unless you are a vegetarian, the odds are REALLY good that you do! What’s the very best price that you can find for chicken in your community? Around here, it’s $1.99/pound, and it happens not all that often (maybe once every 2 months). When I see it at that price, I try to stock up.
Have you ever thought about how long it took for your chicken to go from living and breathing to being in the store ready for purchase? Most of us don’t like to think about that, but it’s a truth that chicken was once alive! The average time it takes for the chicken to be available to you after being killed is 13 days. So if you pick up something that the supermarket just put out that day, it’s probably been dead for about 13 days. Which is kind of gross.
Have you ever had fresh chicken? I have no idea if I have before, but I recently got to prepare some chicken that had been alive just 3 days prior. I was told that I would be able to taste a difference, which I thought was unlikely. But I have to tell you, this chicken was AWESOME! It was juicier and more flavorful!
This chicken I had was not only fresher, but also significantly cheaper than my “rock-bottom” price I look for in the grocery store. It came in around $1.67/pound.
I’m here to tell you the secret to fresher, cheaper chicken. It’s called Zaycon Foods and you have GOT to check them out!
This is the basic idea of how Zaycon Foods works:
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1) COMBINED
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2) DIRECT
FARM-TO-
CONSUMER
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3) SOLD BY
THE CASE
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4) SELECT
PRODUCTS
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5) SALES EVENT
MODEL
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We combine the buying power of many families together, enabling us to negotiate huge savings on food purchases for your family
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We bring products direct from the farm / processor (or as nearly as direct as possible). The products are as fresh as if you had your own farm, but without all the chores
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We sell food products only by the case. No extra costs for handling. And no more empty shelves in your pantry
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We sell only what we eat ourselves—high quality, healthy food. Our focus is on a select number of commonly consumed food items such as fresh meats like chicken, beef, turkey, pork and fish
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Our unique sales event approach turns traditional food purchasing on its ear. Convenient, quick, organized—about 2 minutes and you never even need to get out of your car
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Zaycon Foods is already scheduling events all over the country, so you should definitely log on and see if your nearest city is on their radar. If it isn’t, you can change that! Seriously! Sign up and let them know where you live and where you are willing to go to pick up an order (for example, maybe you live 45 minutes outside of a significantly larger city and you would be willing to go to that city for a pick up). In addition to having special sales on chicken, they also sell other meats such as bacon and ground beef. They are also testing different markets for fresh produce!
In addition to getting yourself signed up, spread the word to your friends. If Zaycon Foods sees that there is a critical mass of people in a city that want to get a great deal, then it will happen! That’s the beauty of a business that has a truck as a store front…it can go ANYWHERE!
We recently got a 40 lb box of chicken. That was 52 chicken breasts. Yes, that IS a lot of chicken. But we had been eating out of our freezer for a few weeks to make room. The next time we order from them, I think we might find another family to split the package with so that someone else can enjoy the great savings, as well. Let me show you what we got!
The chicken comes in a big box, and the chicken is split into 4 packages. So you could even go in with 3 other people and still be able to easily split up a box. There is a little bit of work involved in getting the chicken ready to store, but if you have a pair of kitchen shears, it doesn’t take all that long. You are basically doing the work that the folks in the back of the supermarket do for you and then charge you for. You just need to trim a bit of fat off the chicken and split the breasts. Then you’ll want to put them in storage bags. We opted to put between 5 and 6 breasts in each storage bag.
We found that getting the chicken into these storage bags resulted in the chicken not taking up nearly as much space as it would have if we had left it in the big box. If you have a deep freeze, I think buying from Zaycon Foods is a no-brainer. Even if you don’t (we don’t), I promise you that you can fit 40 lbs of chicken in your freezer and still have room for other stuff.
I’ve had the Zaycon Foods experience, and I can say with confidence that it is one I want to have again! The quality of meat is outstanding, the work required to store the food is not overwhelming, and the price is most definitely right. I really hope we can get the word out in Chattanooga so that the truck will make a stop here in the future!
Does Zaycon Foods come to your neck of the woods? Ever tried it?
Disclosure: I received a complimentary box of chicken in exchange for my honest opinion, which I have provided. This post contains a referral link. I firmly believe in this company and am proud to recommend them for your business!