Store-bought rotisserie chicken.... what a deal!

[Major Nikon]

9. Costco also sells rotisserie chicken for $5

I would guess they are somewhere around 3lb chickens uncooked, so they cost a couple of bucks more but you also have to cook them which takes time and energy so if you place any value on that you aren't losing much if anything.

The sodium content is not that bad if you look at the big picture. One breast contains 141 calories which is 7% of a 2,000 calorie per day diet while containing 23% of the max sodium RDA for the same 2,000 calorie diet. So at first glance that chicken breast seems like it has 3 times more sodium than it should have, but this assumes you are salting all of the calories you are consuming at the max sodium RDA rate. Most people prefer higher salt contents in high protein foods compared to foods with low protein. The other side to this is you are getting 40-50% of your daily protein requirement with that same chicken breast. So if you are salting all the rest of your meal, yes this can be a bad thing, but if I'm rationing out my salt, I'd much rather put my salt on my protein and cut back everywhere else.