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On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 11:41:51 AM UTC-7, Janet B wrote:
> I bought some boneless, skinless chicken breasts from Albertsons
> yesterday. They were $1.69/pound. It was a decent price so I got
> what I thought was a package of 8 -- 4 on top and 4 on the bottom.
> Not so. There were only 4 breasts in the package. I've weighed each
> one. 1.5 ounce was the heaviest and 1.4 was the least weighty. The
> cut looks like they are full breasts instead of the halves we are used
> to. Still, at 20 ounces for a full breast that means the halves would
> be 10 ounces and I am used to seeing 5-6 ounce breast pieces. So, if
> it was your chicken, would you figure these were really old birds and
> need a lot of stewing or would you just go ahead and cook as usual? I
> use this meat for enchilada filling and stuff like that
> Janet US


no, these are just the hybridized big breasted birds that are now being sold.
Use them as usual.