great finds at trader joe's

[Rick Nebiolo]

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I tried the TJ's house brand canned chicken. Big can was about $2.59 and was all white meat. Made an excellent chicken salad with some onion, mayo and celery. They also have turkey in a similar can but didn't try it yet.

Usually canned chicken is just awful, earthquake food at best. Yesterday while I was picking up some milk out of curiosity I checked the local Ralph's, and sure enough most of the canned chicken was part or mostly dark meat and a lot more expensive. I didn't even bother with a taste test.

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Finally tried TJ's canned turkey and it wasn't very good. Also compared the TJ's canned chicken with a can from Costco (my friend gave me one from a ten pack). The TJ's can was the same size on the outside but had a lot more meat once you pressed the water out. The quality seemed close on both.

Anyway, have had chicken salad made from TJ's canned chicken about five times since I wrote the above post and every time it's been good.

~ Rick

PS Definitely the kind of stuff (along with canned soup) you want to have in case of a serious earthquake or a not so nearby nuke wipes out the water supply and causes widespread panic. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

You would probably also need a gun.