Food for baby - which would you choose? Organic chicken thigh or normal chicken breast?

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nutrition-wise of course.

Was at sainsbury today with that dilemma so I thought I'd ask the MN minds to see if I made the right decision ...

thigh tastes a lot better, loads more flavour. can't comment on nutritional value though - are they not roughly the same?

organic thigh every time - for me or for baby - much tastier too!

organic.

donnie, I think it was the organic vs non-organic that was the issue nutrition-wise.

thigh every time
I barely use chicken breasts for anything anymore

when i was weaning dd she loved chicken leg and thigh more than breast, which was a bit dry. personally i'd always have the darker meat as well, it's got more flavour. plus there's the conditions it's been raised in, of course.

oh yes, sorry - I see now!

organic of course!

definitely thigh, won't go dry and stringy either.

Only downside is the cutting up aspect, thighs tend to be sold bone-in so if you don't want to cook it like that I would get it from the butcher next time and get them to take the bones out for you.

I'll let you in on a secret here: Waitrose do thigh fillets

well worth the extra cash vs time spent filleting the buggers

sainsburys also do organic thigh fillets - Waitrose ones are nicer though!

Dd wouldn't eat chicken breast when she was teething badly, it was too dense and chewy, so thighs every time.

I save having to fillet them by stewing them with whatever and then taking the meat off the bone when it's cooked - you end up with more flavour too like that.

yes, i got the sainsbos ones the other day and they were bogging. skinless and boneless but still with a lot of fat on them. barf.

rule of thumb for chicken is to get the cheapest cut (thigh, wing) on the most expensive free range bird

oh usually I casserole etc them too, tis just for stirfries and things
or lazy jar curry for DH and me

I always thought chicken breast has more nutritional value than thigh ... hence my dilemma. And in some meat and veg, it makes no difference if its organic or not.
But I'm glad I made the right decision - got the organic thigh instead.
Planning to make a casserole so deboning them for baby's food will be easy-peasy!

thighs every time esp if freerange or organic

depends what you call nutritional value - chicken breast is very low fat, slightly lower fat than thigh, so if you need to be on a low fat diet it probably is preferable. But a baby doesn't need to worry about that!

In other terms I don't think there would be much difference? I don't know for sure - I'm not a nutritionalist - but I can't imagine it would be very different...? It's just different types of muscle isn't it.

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