Stretch food budget with recipes for chicken thighs

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Family budgets are tightening by the minute. Making every penny of your food budget count is more important and more challenging than ever.

One way to do this is by purchasing raw products that can be used in a variety of applications. Using techniques that restaurants use and the type of common sense, penny-saving measures that were more common in our grandmothers' kitchens is a great place to start. Chicken thighs are exactly the type of inexpensive, main-course item that can feed the foodie inside you while keeping more of your money in your wallet.

I love chicken thighs whether they're roasted, grilled, fried, pulled or sauteed. Chicken thighs are affordable, delicious and compatible with an infinite number of chicken recipes.

Most grocery stores sell thighs for 99 cents to $1.69 per pound. And, you usually canfind them on sale in the 89-cents to 99-cents per pound range if you check weekly sale flyers. A family pack of chicken thighs typically contains 10 thighs, an average of two thighs per pound, and retails for close to $5.

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