OK, admit it, which one of you got the MN chicken in the news???

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This HAS to be a MN chicken 😂

He managed to make a whopping 18 dinners from just one bird, including Chicken korma and rice, Jambalaya and creamy chicken and mushroom pasta

David Kennaugh spent a total of £16.58, which works out to just over 92p per meal - and people were seriously impressed

So come on, who is the real David Kennaugh 🤣

Clicky Link To MN Chicken Article

Waits for all of the "only 16??? One chicken lasts our family of 10 a month..." comments 😂

How big was the bird? Either it was an ostrich or each portion contains about 10g of chicken.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/man-makes-whopping-18-meals-17824009 Good on him! I wonder how much he had in already.

2.1 kg, apparently.

When you look at the meals in the link, they're quite small.

I can imagine MNetters claiming their 3 year olds could eat 5 of them or something.

So £3.68 for four people , that’s quite good but easily done.

I'd need a few per meal

I saw a post on here the other day and someone said they do their Sunday roast then have enough for chicken sarnies, a curry, wraps,.pasta etc...HOW

lightweight. that is not a magic chicken.

( I was bought up by parents who were bought up in the war, so were still stuck in ration sized portions)

I saw a post on here the other day and someone said they do their Sunday roast then have enough for chicken sarnies, a curry, wraps,.pasta etc...HOW

Proper portion sizes and strip the entire chicken.

There are people who need a full chicken breast for just 1 person. People have lost sight of a meat portion.

Still there's no point in saying. People just don't believe it

£4 per meal is the budget in my house >

BlackeyedSusan so was I but, we had the opposite. My Db and I were really well fed with huge portions.
The portions in that article are tiny. My 13yo would leave home if I gave her one of those.

We get two meals out of a 2kg chicken.

That's with me issuing threats and placing an armed guard on the fridge to keep it safe from DPS picky ways........tonight we had a roast, ds had the leg / thigh,me and DP shared one half of breast also dished out the wings to stop him picking.

Just under half left and that's going in a chicken and mushroom curry tomorrow if it survives DP. If it doesnt I'll just chop DP up. 💁🏻‍♀️

I feel like such a failure, I can only manage 12 plus a pot of stock. I feel a challenge coming on.

It's not a Mumsnet thing, it's how people used to eat meat, especially chicken when it was an expensive treat, not a fairly cheap mass market product that people expect to eat piles of every day.

Roast on Sunday, pie or similar on Monday, veg soup with flakes of chicken on Tuesday and things like egg and chips on Wednesday and Thursday, fish on Friday etc. The Sunday roast might be all the meat a family had in a week so it had to last.

Would be far better for animal welfare, the environment and health if more people ate like that now.

I bought a 1.8kg chicken and had dreams of a MN chicken. But by the time me, DH and DD had eaten our roast, there were just some scraggy bits I ended up giving to the dog.

When we have a roast, though, it's usually our only meal of the day (well mine and DH's) so we have a big portion

People have lost sight of a meat portion

Mumsnet bingo!

It's not just chicken though... There's mushrooms in the pasta sauce, and chorizo and prawns in the jambalaya.