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gringal wrote: Well, there's chicken, and there's chicken.  I like the quality at Puritan, and I finally figured out the economy of chicken after all these years:  If you buy a large chicken breast, for instance, it's around 110 pesos...

Seems like an awful lot of money for chicken. By 'a large chicken breast' I'm assuming you actually mean 2 breasts, or the entire chest? I was at the mercado in Chapala a few days ago and bought 3 big single breasts. 95 pesos. Even then I felt she was padding it a bit, as I've often purchased a single breast there for 30 pesos.

That's the whole breast, all the way across the chicken. Enough for three or four meals. However, if you can get a better deal at the mercado, by all means do do.