Chicken breasts can be tough because they don't have as much fat and they don't have as much

natural moisture so they can dry out more quickly.

It is a little bit harder to cook them well so that they're still juicy and flavorful.

They're also a thicker part of the bird.

Welcome to didn't I just feed you.

A podcast about feeding kids.

Hey, I'm Megan.

And I'm Stacy.

Chicken breast is one of the most...

I was going to say well-loved, but I'm going to maybe amend that to most used sources of protein in most kitchens across the United States.

And I get it. I wrote a whole book on chicken guys. It can be inexpensive. It can be easy to cook. But the funny thing is, and actually,

the reason why I wrote winner-winner chicken dinner, because it took some convincing on my part.

I was not in the market to write a chicken cookbook, but a publisher approached me and asked me to do

and I was like, no, that doesn't

make sense for me. And then the more I thought about it, the more I was like, what does make sense

for me is solving problems or trying to solve problems for family cooks. And I know because of the

cost, because of the seemingly ease of cooking chicken breasts and chicken in general.

People are buying chicken like crazy.

Like it far surpassed beef as the most popular protein in the U.S.

But then at the same time, everyone's talking about how boring it is, how bland it is, how dry it is.

So even though it's easy to cook,

I do feel like people have a hard time cooking it well. So it just can be a little bit of a

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