It's not fatty enough. I can dig chicken if I fry it in copious amounts of bacon fat, tallow, ghee, or butter, but plain chicken by itself is too lean and unfun.

I guess I've spoiled myself with all the beef.

Chicken bores me, especially the white meat. In fact, I make more chicken stock than I do eat chicken. If I'm eating chicken, it will be either a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store (because they're so convenient), or wings on a night out.

I LOVE chicken. I am lucky, I can buy totally free range, heritage breed chickens from a local farm, where I see the hens running about. They are big (6 lbs, the one I roasted on Sunday) and PACKED full of flavour. The juices that I make the gravy from set almost solid - not wobbly jelly, but dense. And the bones make superb stock - my slow cooker is filling the house with delicious smells as I write this.

I think the problem with most chicken that people get is that it IS bland - chickens are killed too young, they haven't been living outdoors eating bugs and things, and the chicken hasn't been hung and has been drawn too soon. They need to hang for a few days and be drawn when sold.

Buy a REAL chicken and try again - it will be a revelation!

Ive gradually stopped eating chicken. Mainly because it grosses me out that they are raised in horrible ways. And also because of their high content of omega 6. If the chicken was a happy little fellow who had been living free outdoor all his life, Ive would happily have eaten it.

I agree, I need to eat a lot of chicken now to feel satisfied. So it's more of a lunch food for me. And I am bored of white meat, but a crispy-skinned, juicy chicken thigh and leg topped with herbs, crispy proscuitto and a horseradish dijon mustard still hits the spot.

I no longer enjoy chicken.

Yeah chicken is not what I feel like eating anymore at all. Although I would eat some wings if they came from fast food place on a cheat day. I crave deep sea fish like cod, and I crave beef (grass-fed) and I crave lamb. I do not crave chicken although I used to when I wasn't paleo.

Joshua,

I am with you on this chicken thing. I left off the chicken on my grocery list this week for the first time in a long time. I am attempting to eat more wild caught seafood instead.

i am not long time paleo, but i find i eat way less chicken than in my healthy SAD days because of the addition of liver, kidney, heart; there are only so many meals one can eat and i do perceive chicken as being a less optimal choice. the same has happened with pork; except bacon. but i think i would drop that too for beef bacon.

I've never liked white meat that much- when I was little I would get mad at my mom when we had chicken breasts and tell her to "make it dark!!". Brattiness aside, I really like dark poultry meat, so I cook chicken legs (thigh+drumstick) skin on in kind of a duck-confit style by adding a couple slices of bacon to get the fat going. I also love tandoori chicken legs (thigh+drumstick again), the whole marinating-it-to-tenderness in the yogurt mixture is the bomb. Chicken wings are my easy student-budget-friendly appetizer that you can serve free range without busting the bank.

I eat a fair amount of chicken, mostly because of accessibility. We have always lived right near a poultry farm that my parent's friends own, so we always have 6 or more whole chickens in the freezer. We had chickens for most of my young childhood, but we got rid of them when we moved. It's also easier to find free range chicken than it is other meat- I can usually get a good free range chicken for roasting much easier than a brisket or a pork tenderloin, which are often just CAFO. To get grass fed beef, it is a metro ride away- you can buy free range poultry at most grocery stores. At least in my experience!

Hah, yes! We eat it maybe once a week for a change, but the rest is mostly beef with some lamb, pork, and fish.

It's still good in some dishes, like grilled on a salad, chicken wings, or cuisines like thai, indian, etc. But it's not my go-to anymore... too boring.

I think this has been addressed before, at least tangentially when people list their favorite meats. Chicken falls off the list for a lot of paleo folk. Pork goes down the list, beef almost always climbs to the top.

I still use chicken thighs in my pseudo menudo tripe soup (along with cheap cuts of pork). But that's cheating, because the tripe gives beefy satisfaction to anything.

I lost my taste for chicken rather quickly.

Fish and shellfish have taken over as my favorite foods when I can get them, but grass-fed steak is right up there, too.

I enjoy my own version of buffalo chicken wings (broiled and tossed in Crystal/Kerrygold sauce) once every couple weeks or so and that's about it. I'll also have a whole chicken cooked in the crock pot once in awhile.

I eat about half a pound of bacon a week at the moment, and sometimes I'll go for a nice pastured pork chop or some ribs, but I don't really enjoy pork as much these days, either.

What I'm aiming for lately is to have fish 2-3 times a week, beef 2-3 times a week, chicken 1-2 times a week, pork 1-2 times a week, and offal and bones thrown in wherever I can fit them. Eventually I'd like to try some lamb, but it's a bit pricier. Oh and I probably eat a dozen eggs a week.

I seldom eat it anymore. I tried it raw once, because I listened to a Super Human Radio episode on raw food . It tasted like garbage. So, even if I roast it and it tastes really good, the idea that it tastes like garbage raw limits my enjoyment.

I suspect I would like chickens raised on pasture, or roaming about in the jungle (supposedly their natural habitat), but they are much harder to come by than the label chicken. By label I mean organic, natural, anti-biotic free, and whatever new word they come up with to sell it to us. Wouldn't be surprised to see a paleo chicken in stores soon. The only guarantee being that it will be more expensive, possibly a little better in quality, but definitely not quite right.

Chicken breast is so blah, I 100% agree with you on that. However, chicken thighs I feel like there are so many limitless possibilities because I can make them taste like whatever I want them to, and the texture is really the only thing that's "chicken-like" about it. I mean, if you never eat chicken again, big deal, but have you really exhausted all of the possibilities?

I'm with you too - chicken is sooooo boring unless i roast it thoroughly in lard or butter - but even then it is the last of my choice of meats - occassionallty its ok in a curry. But it is definately no longer a satisfying meat.... its almost become the meat associated with people trying to "SAD" diet.... maybe that's part of it.....?

I eat less chicken now, and when I eat it I go for the dark meat. I think both chicken and turkey are better brined to keep the white meat moist.

I usually cook chicken in my Flavor-Wave Oven when I cook it and that makes the skin very crispy and blows most of the fat off the bird. With the right spice rub and some lemon slices inside, it tastes good that way.

When I cook chicken for dog food I use the bones to make broth and I enjoy that, using it mainly as a soup base.

I'm hardly long-term paleo (started around late November), but it took about 1-2 months to just completely give up on chicken. It's tasteless, it's dry, it's overpriced (even when it's just store-bought organic, which I suspect doesn't go as far as it could in terms of humane practices), its fat isn't the desirable kind, and while it does actually fill me up, it's in more of a belly-ache full than an "I'm completely satisfied" full.
It's just not worth it in my opinion. I can think of so many things I'd rather spend my money on. (Oh, and it's kind of a fun bonus to confuse people by telling them, "I don't eat white meat.")

Chicken broth is still tasty, though!

Similar to OddBallin I'm relatively new to full blown Paleo and I have given up on store bought chicken. HOWEVER, that being said I am going to be trying a fully pastured chicken from one of my local farms in the not too distant future.

The guy I talked to at the farm actually said go buy a chicken at the store, the best quality one you can find. Then come try one of ours, and you'll never go back.

So as soon as I can bring myself to pay more for chicken than grassfed beef I'm going to buy a whole chicken from them and give it a go.

It's just so hard when the freezer is full of beef... ;)

I hated chicken for awhile, but I've been eating quite a bit lately, especially diced up and scrambled in eggs with salsa verde.

The key to juicy, tasty skinless chicken breast: cut it up into small, thin strips and salt the absolute heck out of it and sprinkle some black and red pepper on it. Then pan fry them in a PLENTY of olive oil or whatever you like. Place each strip in individually on the hot pan with a little breathing room and turn them only once, don't stir fry them. Only cook them until they are barely done, like a minute or two total. If it takes them longer than that to turn white, cut them thinner.

Also, the quality of your chicken makes all the difference in what it tastes like. I don't mind supermarket beef, but supermarket chicken is disgusting and smells terrible raw, I can't bring myself to eat it.