Welcome to the Cooking Forum, imscattered.

I know what you mean, I have a couple of stepchildren who are adults but will not eat meat with bones in it. It confuses me. Even KFC now has boneless chicken, customers "demanded" it. People don't want bones, and they want easily portable food that they can eat in the car.

I, however, raise grassfed beef, heritage turkeys, chickens for meat, my own pigs. We cure and smoke bacon, render lard, all that good stuff. I cook from scratch, not from a box or a can. I even roast my own coffee and occasionally grind wheat for flour.

Many of us here cook fresh vegetables, bake our own bread, and yes, eat meat with bones in it.

Annie

We have bones! You can get boneless chicken breasts but everything else that I can think of comes with its own bones.

The threat of mad cow disease was the end of much of the bone-in meat at grocery stores. Things I once bought for making bone broth at the local meat packing plant is now sold as "dog bones" and they are restricted what they can sell for human consumption when it comes to bones.

Not only are we missing flavor with this boneless meat, but the health benefits from bones and connective tissue. Protein from lean muscle meat is inflammatory to your body, but the gelatin in bones and connective tissue balances the inflammatory protein makeup of muscle meat.

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-Grainlady

Here is a link that might be useful: The Food Coach

I used to always buy boneless chicken. When I would buy chicken with the bone my kids hated it. They would just pick at the meat. Recently I learned how to cook a whole chicken. The meat seems to just fall off the bone which makes everyone happy.

I know that my teenage daughter likes meat but doesn't want to be reminded she is eating an animal so doesn't like to see a bone.

Just about every cut is available in our grocery stores. With or without bones. A few of the grocery stores carry really high quality beef/pork/chicken and lamb. Some locally raised.

We have a couple of butcher shops too with locally raised meats.

I tend to cook most meats "bare". Except for seasoning with salt, pepper, garlic and a few herbs. Not big on sauces. Other than those made from the drippings.

~Ann

My kids went through a "no bones" phase too. They are getting better now. They started liking BBQ ribs which helped.

I buy bones at the Asian market. They have all sorts - pigs feet, cow necks, chicken carcasses, soup bones, marrow bones. They are not super cheap, but are pretty cheap.

I have heard that so many Americans will only eat boned chicken breasts and never dark meat, that thighs and legs are shipped to China.