Eating chicken the same way everyday can get so boring and you could find your taste buds losing interest in this great staple food. So why not try other recipes with chicken as the main ingredient and see how it turns out? We have the best and easiest one right here; a 2-ingredient chicken recipe. Sounds unrealistic, right? Of course you want to maintain a stable budget while still doing miracles in your kitchen. We prepared a tantalizing chicken recipe for you that will cost you less than $15 for 4-6 servings.

We are talking soft, juicy and boneless chicken pieces with crusty skin that your friends and family are going to enjoy to the last piece. Preparation takes few minutes and few steps. This kitchen recipe is a perfect serve for dinner with salad and fries then finish it off with a nice dessert.
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Ingredients:

• 1 whole deboned chicken of about 4 ½ pounds (let the butcher debone the chicken for you because it’s tricky to do it yourself at home).
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt.

Directions:

1. Divide the chicken into big pieces without removing the skin.
2. Salt the chicken chunks with 1 teaspoon of kosher salt 1-3 hours prior to cooking.
3. Put the salted chicken in the refrigerator and leave it there until 10 minutes before you start cooking.
4. When you are ready to cook, preheat the broiler/oven.
5. Put the chicken on the rimmed pan with the skin side facing up and set it under the broiler. The pan should be placed about 3 inches from the heat for browning and crisping of the chicken skin.
6. To enable the chicken to have an even browning, rotate the pan a few times.
7. The process of broiling should take 10 minutes. Afterward, reduce the temperature to 250⁰F and cook for 25 minutes.
8. The chicken is now ready. Transfer it to a flat board and cut into relatively smaller cubes.
9. Transfer the chopped chicken pieces into plates ready for serving. You can eat with vegetable salads, fries or some pepper sauce to top up the delicious flavor.

One of the benefits of kosher salt is its ability to cure meat. Therefore, even if you leave your chicken refrigerated to be used after a little more than 3 hours, it will still be as good as fresh. Still don’t believe this unbelievable recipe exists? Just try it today. Take down your grocery list and add chicken and kosher salt.

Are you selfiesh? We hope you are! And no, there’s no typo. Yield to your selfie addiction and enter for a chance to win the legendary *Apple Watch or Sony Smartwatch 3 from “Buy Me a Pie!” crew!

So, what do you need to do to enter this giveaway? Almost nothing:

1. Take a selfie or a picture of your family/friends near or inside any store. Funny photos are very much welcome!
2. Upload this photo to profile feed in any social net with #bmp_store_selfie and #giveaway hashtags and “I want to win Smartwatch from “Buy Me a Pie!’ App” (both hashtags and the text are required)
3. Follow us in that social net. If you already do – that’s great!
4. Fill out the short form below.

The sweepstake is finished.

After you fill out the form you’ll receive participant ID here and by email – please save it, you will need it to check if you’re the winner.

Please make sure your social net account is open to public (i.e. does not require any private access to view it) till the end of sweepstake, otherwise we’ll not be able to see your cool picture and include you into the lists of participants.

Sweepstake starts on November 19 and ends on December 3. On December 4 we’ll announce the random winners – there will be two winners this time, one will get Apple Watch and the other will receive Sony Smartwatch 3.

Contest will run only if a minimum number of valid registrants is over 100, so share this news to attract others!

By submitting your photos to this giveaway, you agree that the images you submit may be copied and used in printed publications, on “Buy Me a Pie!” website (buymeapie.com/), in company slideshows and displayed on “Buy Me a Pie!” social media channels.

*Apple Watch, provided as a prize for this sweepstake, has been used for the latest “Buy Me a Pie!” testing.

Meet the winners!

Thanks everyone for taking part – we’re amazed how positive and full of ideas you are! It was really great to see your faces, the faces of your kids and even pets!

So, let’s select the random winners. It’s done by means of an automatic tool, provided at RandomResult.com. We’ve recorded the process for you:

Apple Watch Sport goes to user with ID 4fc3863dbu:

Sony Smartwatch 3 goes to participant with ID bb748d96sh:

Dear winners, we will contact shortly to find out your post addresses for the prizes delivery!

Thanks everyone, and stay tuned!

We bet you’ve been missing our giveaways! Ready to roll the dice and hit the jackpot? Оk, this time we are giving away 1 year of PRO subscription to our iOS application (worth $9.99) to 100 random participants. You need just 3 things – a cam, a social net account and a bit of fortune!

First and foremost you need to go to your favourite grocery store and take a picture of you or your family/friends in front of or inside a grocery store. After that you should provide us with this photo via the social nets listed below. 

Giveaway entry conditions vary for each social net, taking into account the peculiarities of content posting in them:

Instagram

To participate in the giveaway via Instagram, please do the following:

• follow @buymeapieapp on Instagram
• upload the photo with #bmp_store_selfie and #giveaway hashtags

Facebook

• share our Facebook announcement about this giveaway
• send us the photo in personal message on Facebook

Google+

• upload the photo on your page with the following text: “I’m going to win a year of PRO Subscription from “Buy Me a Pie!” App”
• provide the link to your photo in the comments to our Google+ announcement about this giveaway

Twitter

• upload the photo in your account with the following text: “I’m going to win a year of PRO Subscription from “Buy Me a Pie!” App”
• provide the link to your photo in the comments to our Twitter announcement about this giveaway

You are welcome to submit your photo via as many of the listed social nets as you wish – the more of them you use, the more chances to win you get! For example, if you provide your photo in Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, you have 3 times more chances to win compared to the ones who provide a photo in Instagram only.

Remember, that the photos you submit must be your own work, not taken from the Internet or other media sources.

It does not matter how many people will be in the picture (one or many), it does not matter if it is a selfie or not – the picture must have a grocery store and people/person in it.

IMPORTANT BUT: if one and the same photo is posted in more than one account within one social net (e.g. in two Facebook accounts), the participant gets disqualified.

NOTE: By submitting your photos to this giveaway, you agree that the images you submit may be used in printed publications, on “Buy Me a Pie!” website (buymeapie.com/), in slideshows, may be uploaded on “Buy Me a Pie!” social media channels, or in any other media, and may be copied, printed and displayed.

Photos are accepted till the end of the weekend. The campaign will be stopped at midnight September 13 (00.00 EDT, UTC/GMT -4). The results will be announced on September 15 and 100 random winners will get their subscriptions.

Let’s admit it: we chat, and we chat a lot. The only thing that we use more that chats is probably Facebook. The popularity of Facebook all over the world naturally resulted in the vast spread of Facebook messenger. So we thought it would be great if you could share your grocery lists right there. Really, isn’t it cool to be able to discuss things you want to purchase before adding them to a list without switching between chats and apps? Sharing list via FB messenger is easy and intuitive. You need “Buy Me a Pie!” installed on your iOS device and you need Facebook Messenger as well.

• open the list you’d like to share via Facebook messenger
• tap the sharing button in the upper right corner of the list
• select Facebook messenger icon:

• select the person you want to send the list to
• tap Send in the bottom right corner

The person, who receives the list from you, can either just see the list of products in the messenger or he/she can import it into his/her copy of “Buy Me a Pie!” (if this person has our app installed). When you receive a “Buy Me a Pie!” list from someone in Facebook messenger, you can import this list to your copy of the app by clicking on “Reply” in the message (Facebook does not allow changing their buttons and controls names, thus we have to use “Reply”). Here is what we refer to: Please note: sharing a list via Facebook messenger does not mean your list will get shared between your and your chatmate accounts in “Buy Me a Pie!”. Both of you will have the same list, but the changes, made by one of you in this list, will not appear on the device of the other. It works like sending a list by email or txt, but by means of Facebook messenger, where you can ask your questions or comment on it. More cool features are on the go, stay tuned!

Hurry up to win Apple Watch Sport from “Buy Me a Pie!” grocery list! To enter this giveaway please do the following:

1. provide your email in the field below
2. get a unique link for the free app downloading
3. invite as many of your friends with iOS devices as possible to download the free “Buy Me a Pie!” iOS app with your link
4. !important! ask them to open the downloaded app (otherwise the download is not scored to you)

The user, whose unique link results in the maximal number of app installs, wins. You are welcome to share the link in any social nets you wish to increase your chances! We’ve added social buttons for your link sharing, all you need to do is to add your comment that motivates people to use your link. There will be one winner only, and we hope it will be you!

After you enter your email you also get your ID – please save it, you will need it to check if you’re the winner. You’ll receive this ID alongside with the unique link to your email as well.

Unique download link can be used to download the app only once per a device, but on the unlimited number of devices. Multiple attempts of the app installation to the same device are not scored. And let us repeat it once again: if the app is installed, but not opened, the fact of install is not scored either.

Cheaters will also be disqualified. We know how to differ real installs made by real people from multiple ones made by one and the same user, so do not try to cheat.

Giveaway entry starts on July 10 and ends on July 30. The winner will be chosen on July 31, the winner’s ID and score will be published here. Ready? Go!

And we are happy to announce the winner!

Apple Watch Sport goes to user with ID 8595886cv. – congratulations! Dear winner, we will contact you by email shortly to find out your post address for the prize delivery!

And here is top of the participants, who fulfilled all the conditions of the sweepstake:

Thanks everyone for taking part, stay tuned!

We’re anxious to announce good news: “Buy Me a Pie!” for iOS has its 4th anniversary! This has been a really long way and amazing time: from a small app with a single grocery list up to a feature-rich cross-platform service, daily used by over 75 thousand of people, with over 6 million downloads worldwide. We would like to take this opportunity and thank you, people, for being with us during these years! “Buy Me a Pie!” would not be what it is without your feedback and support. We appreciate your trust in our application, we value every single idea suggested, issue reported and payment made.

We can’t make out any better way to thank you than make a little present to our iOS users.

To celebrate this special date we are starting a giveaway campaign for 1 year of PRO subscription to our iOS application (worth $9.99). Get it in just 3 simple steps:

GIVEAWAY IS OVER. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION CLAIM, PLEASE CONTACT US AT support@buymeapie.com

Please make sure you have installed our free “Buy Me a Pie!” app for iOS and registered an account with the same email you’ve provided in the field above. PRO subscription will be issued for the account associated with that very email.

On June, 26 everyone who takes part in this giveaway campaign will get 1 year of PRO subscription for free.

Thanks for being with us all this time!

For all those in the forefront of new technologies, for the fortunate possessors of long-anticipated magic Watch, for all “Buy Me a Pie!” friends and fans who plan to try the new Apple gadget – here comes “Buy Me a Pie!” with Apple Watch support!

Ok, how to play with this new toy?

Have you already watched this video guide from Apple? If not yet, we’d recommend doing that, since it takes only 5 minutes but explains the basic options and controls of the new device.

To have “Buy Me a Pie!” app on your watch you need first of all to make sure you use iOS is 8.2 or later on your iPhone, and if so, to tap Apple Watch icon there, select “Buy Me a Pie!” and set “Show App on the Apple Watch” option to ON. As a result you’ll see a small round icon of “Buy Me a Pie!” on your Apple Watch among the icons of the other apps.

There are two ways you can start “Buy Me a Pie!” on the watch: you can either tap the app icon or tap the app Glance. According to Apple, Glances are scannable summaries of the information you seek out most frequently. To see them, you should simply swipe up from your watch face. “Buy Me a Pie!” Glance displays the number of products in the last list you’ve opened.

What can I do in “Buy Me a Pie!” on the Apple Watch screen?

• You can see your lists. To open the list of lists, please tap the title of the list you currently have open on your watch.
• You can see the products in each of your lists. If you’re in the list of lists, tap the required list title to open the selected shopping list. Please note that when you open a list it displays only non-purchased products. So if someone you share your list with has purchased some product from this list a few minutes ago, you will just not see that item among the items left in the list.
• You can cross the purchased products off. Here the procedure is the same as on iPhone or iPad: just tap the product to mark it as purchased.
• You can return a purchased (crossed-out) product to your lists by another tap on it. Note that you can do that only to the products you’ve crossed off on your watch. 
• To see the changes made in the lists from other devices you should either proceed to the list of lists and then open the required list again, or simple deactivate your watch screen by lowering your wrist.
• To scroll your list tap the clock. By the way, that is one of the standard Apple Watch features that works will other apps as well.

Enjoy your shopping with “Buy Me a Pie!” and your new watch!

Oh, how good it feels to announce great news – “Buy Me a Pie! Grocery List Pro” grocery shopping list app for Android allows sharing lists between accounts now! And by the way – there are more lists in the app now!

• Some time ago we introduced this feature for our iOS app, and now it is available for Android users as well – the possibility to share separate shopping lists between different accounts. Here is how you can do it: open the list you want to share, tap its title, select “Share list”, proceed to your contacts, add or select the ones you’d like to share this list with, and then tap the check in the upper right corner. People you’ve selected get emails with the invitations to the list, and as soon as they accept these invitations the list gets available to them – either in their copies of the app or on buymeapie.com if they don’t have the app. And this small icon next to the list title in the app means that the list is shared:
  
• The old way of sharing the entire account with all the lists in it also stays available
• If you can share a list or two, it means you can keep another list or two private. The lists, that you have not shared to anyone, are available only to you – provided that you are the only one who has access to your account, of course.
• We’ve increased the maximal number of lists up to 20 (the previous limit was 8).

If you already have “Buy Me a Pie! Grocery List Pro” for Android, your app has most probably got upgraded automatically and you can try these cool features right now. If your device does not download upgrades automatically – you’re welcome to update the app manually.

And if you have smartphone of tablet on Android but still don’t have “Buy Me a Pie! Pro” on it, here’s the place to purchase it.

If anyone ever tells you that pies can’t grow – do not believe it. They definitely can! We believe it’s high time to enhance the functionality of our “Buy Me a Pie!” shopping list for iOS 7, so today we are releasing the new version, that surpasses all the previous versions. Want to know what secret ingredients we’ve added to “Buy Me a Pie!” to make it delicacy? Or, maybe, would like to find a way to get it free of change?

• By the most popular demand we’ve implemented the possibility to share separate shopping lists between different accounts. How it works: you log in to the app, open the list you want to share, proceed to your contacts list and add everyone you would like to sync this list with. People selected by you get invitations to their emails – and voila! You can even share the list with people who don’t use “Buy Me a Pie!” application at all, they will able to handle the list on our buymeapie.com site.

• What if you want to keep on synchronizing all your lists, i.e. share your account with someone, like before? No problem, just continue using the app the way you used to!
• Privacy and conspiracy: private non-shared lists. If you would like to keep some of your lists private, just to not share them with anyone and do not let anybody into your account. You do not need to store your holiday gifts lists outside the app now!
• The number of lists increased greatly – now you can have up to 20 of them.
• You wonder if it is possible to copy your lists to clipboard to paste them somewhere? Yes, this possibility has been added too!
• Old notifications about the changes in the lists are now automatically deleted. You do not have to clear them off manually anymore.
• We added two more localizations for products dictionary – Polish and Romanian.

Do you already have “Buy Me a Pie!” PRO for iOS 7? If yes, just check if you have the latest version of it.

If you don’t have our shopping list app yet – welcome to download “Buy Me a Pie! – Grocery Shopping List”

Have been an attentive reader and read the article to the very end? Share this news in Facebook and get a chance to win our promo code! 50 winners will be randomly selected.

from Dmitry Joukov,
Art Director of  “Buy Me a Pie!” and 5EVEN, Head of Bodybeat

Not long ago I’ve published a story about the creation of icon for “Buy Me a Pie!” in iOS 7 style and the results of our attempts. I was surprised to see the rush of comments under it, and according to their number and the willingness you shared your opinions on the icons the topic turned out to be a matter of interest! The whole “Buy Me a Pie!” team was monitoring the comments closely since everyone was eager to know which icon wins. As a result #1 proved to be Number One, and frankly speaking I expected that. Now I’d like to tell you more about this very icon: why it was made the way it was made.

It all began in December 2013, when Sergey Bulaev and Alex Salmov (co-owners of “Buy Me a Pie!”) asked me to draw a new cool icon. The slight tension in the tone of their request made it clear to me that they wanted not just some improvements –  the existing variant with the white bag did not satisfy them at all any more. Out of the blue they stopped liking my icon! It took me a week to put up with the fact. I kept on considering my icon acme of perfection  - well, at least the acme of conformity with iOS 7 design ideology and current “Buy Me a Pie!” look and feel. Maximal change I was ready to make was removal of the bag bottom widening, which really turned out to be clumsy.

But in a few days I suddenly found myself looking at my icon more critically than ever before. Now it did not seem that perfect to me. Time to make changes came, but first of all I needed to choose the direction to move in:

1. improvement of the existing white shopping bag;
2. color coding;
3. just a colorful catchy icon;
4. adapting of “Buy Me a Pie!” icon used in the Android version of the app.

As you know, in “Buy Me a Pie!” we use colors to group products, and in the last version of the app we have improved it a bit by adding hatching to some colors. Most of the products can be found in the default dictionary, where they are already grouped, which is very convenient. This is one of the key features of our application, so why not emphasize it?

“I’m drawing some crap” — that was what I thought after I draw the variants above. All that deserved to be thrown away – well, maybe except the last one, it was not as bad as the rest. However it was way too fussy. Thus I decided to reduce the number of the selected directions to two:

1. color coding;
2. just a colorful catchy icon.

By the way, I know several designers who organize the icons on their iPhones screens not by some categories or frequency of usage, but by color (designers, you know). On the one hand it is pretty logical, but on the other hand it makes me believe that icon creators have a rather one-sided view on the style Apple suggested for iOS 7. The idea of making something “flat and single-color” captured the minds of apps and icons designers.
To stand out from competitors one needs to create a vivid image — a successful combination of form and color. This is related not only to the icon  — this is what the graphic design in general is based on. In our case a vivid image should be associated with products, shopping, purchases. Abandoning the shopping bag filled with products makes no sense to us, but the set of products should have been updated.

Now let’s turn to statistics. Here are top 10 products purchased in the USA:

• Milk
• Eggs
• Bread
• Bananas
• Butter
• Cheese
• Potatoes
• Onions
• Toilet paper
• Apples

In Russia this list is almost the same.
Of course it is very tempting to select apples and bananas from this list, but fruit have rather complicated forms, so a schematically depicted apple can be taken for a tomato, and I will not dare to mention what a banana may look like. Cheese and butter do not have any expressive neat images in general, and eggs have no canonic package. So, now we can shorten our list and get rid of all the ambiguous staff:

• Milk
• Eggs
• Bread
• Bananas
• Butter
• Cheese
• Potatoes
• Onions
• Toilet paper
• Apples

We use one icon for our app all over the world, thus we need to select something absolutely easily recognizable and international. Bread, milk and (!!!) toilet paper.

And here we come to the point of the objects forms selection for these three product, bearing in mind that our main target markets are the USA and Russia.

Milk

In the Unites States, where the culture of packing is rich, one can find classic milk bottles made of glass. In Russia we have plastic bottles of a similar form. This bottle can be seen on the most well-known “Buy Me a Pie! Classic” icon and was inherited by the Android app icon and white-and-blue icon of “Buy Me a Pie!” designed for iOS 7. So, let’s keep the milk bottle as is.

Bread

If you want to know what long loaves look like in Russia, have a look at the skeuomorphic icon of “Buy Me a Pie! Classic”. That very long loaf was the core symbol of our application. It looked natural for Russia and countries where bread like that is baked. My previous post was followed by multiple requests from Russian customers to return that very long loaf back. But we know that in America and Europe bread is different. Thus we should change the loaf form.

Toilet paper

Fortunately, the object of toilet paper application is the same all over the world, and toilet paper looks approximately the same everywhere – it is a perforated roll.

I did not decline the idea of color coding. The multicolor icon should be associated with the variety of purchases and app features. But three colors are not enough for that, we need more colors! So let us put the items on the each other and paint the overlapped areas into different colors. As a result we get not just a vivid catchy image but an icon with the proper set of products. Everyone in “Buy Me a Pie!” team believes it should help us to reach the new tops.

Epilogue

When testing the icons in social nets and reading your comments to my post here and on another Russian site I suddenly found out that toilet paper has unpleasant associations for some users. Moreover, some people feel awkward when they have to buy toilet paper.

At first this awkwardness seemed funny to me, but then followed doubt and concern. This new information and direct feedback from customers let us create a perfect icon for our application.

I hope, nobody is too shy to buy apples?

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