My family loves dark meat chicken so I was excited to find one of the super cheap sales on 20 pounds of leg quarters. I cleaned my chicken, made a yummy crock pot mean. We were all looking forward to dinner after the smell in the house all day.

Well..... It was awful! Super cheap chicken IS super cheap chicken. Now that I own it the only way it can be used is if I cook it and clean it and use it just little peices. I have learned that the bigger fresh not frozen is a better deal, because it doesn't ruin dinner.

Just wanted to share!

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MrsMom43 = Happily Married mom of three wonderful children!

sorry your dinner was yuck!

I have had problems with chicken too, and I tend to stay away from the dark meat, unless I buy the whole chicken.

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married 8 years to a crazy Brit, mommy to a banana, she is 5 and a pineapple who is just about 2 , mommy to 4 ~angel~ babies

I've been using only dark meats (fresh not store-frozen in a bag though) in my crock pot for a while now and I have no complaints. Was it that your meal turned into a fatty mess? Did you prep your chicken first if it wasn't skinless before throwing it in the crock? If you cooked it with the skin on ewwww IMHO but this goes for dark or white meat in my experience. I also skin roaster chickens before cooking them in the crock if I'm planning on using the gravy, if I don't the gravy isn't salvageable because of the grease. If I'm not using the gravy then I just peel the skin off the chicken before I serve and boy oh boy TENDER chicken!

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