{"id":5977,"date":"2026-09-19T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T05:01:35","slug":"safeway-boneless-chicken-thighs-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2026\/09\/safeway-boneless-chicken-thighs-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeway Boneless Chicken Thighs disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/product-reviews\/safeway-brands-reviews\/\">Safeway<\/a> had <strong>Signature Select boneless, skinless chicken thighs<\/strong> on sale for $3\/lb &#8211; down from the $6.50 regular price.  Given how expensive groceries are now, I figured I&#8217;d give them a try.  I was less than happy.<br><br>The thighs are HUGE.  I&#8217;m afraid to imagine how big those chickens have to be to have such big thighs. And they are also extremely fatty.  There are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superlawyers.com\/resources\/animal-law\/california\/californias-law-on-the-treatment-of-confined-farm-animals\/\">laws<\/a> in California that force chicken farmers to give chickens a minimum amount of space and access to the outdoors, but I can&#8217;t imagine these chickens have ever gotten any exercise.  For that reason alone, I&#8217;m unlikely to buy Safeway chicken again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the plus side, I was able to cut the thighs into nicely sized cubes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/indonesia\/madura.html\">Madura-style satay<\/a>, and the chicken was quite tender.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563-1024x620.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563-676x409.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/809183461_1832197564812432_8836683732402036515_n-e1789664242563.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Safeway had Signature Select boneless, skinless chicken thighs on sale for $3\/lb &#8211; down from the $6.50 regular price. Given how expensive groceries are now, I figured I&#8217;d give them a try. I was less than happy. The thighs are HUGE. I&#8217;m afraid to imagine how big those chickens have to be to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,28,81],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-items","tag-chicken","tag-reviews","tag-safeway","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}