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With my MN chicken I made 17 meals and three sandwiches.

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Kendodd · 19/04/2021 20:58

It can be done!
Large chicken, don't know the weight but it took 2 hours 5 minutes to cook.
We had -
Roast dinner for five.
Chicken fajitas for four.
Chicken and bacon pie for five.
Risotto for three.
And three chicken salad sandwiches.

Two adults, the secondary school kids. Maybe we just don't eat much so our portions are small.

OP posts:
Bluntness100 · 20/04/2021 16:38

@ForgedInFire

Those that think a breast is far too much for one person- what do you do when you get KFC? Have you ever stooped as low as getting a KFC?
They buy one chicken portion then split it between five of them.. but order double chips, beans, coleslaw, to make up for it.😃
Giantrooster · 20/04/2021 16:53

I've never tried KFC (mostly because they aren't here and when abroad i prefer nicer food) does that score me any points? Am I missing out?

Soubriquet · 20/04/2021 17:00

If we have fajitas here, I will use a 1kg pack of chicken breasts.

That will do me, dh and two dc. Sometimes there will be enough for me to have one or two the next day but not often

We don’t bulk it out though. I will have mine with lettuce, dh and dc will have theirs with lettuce and tomato.

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Soubriquet · 20/04/2021 17:04

A single chicken nugget sized piece of chicken and half a potato feeding a fully grown adult GrinGrin

What bollocks. That’s a meal for a toddler

IhateBoswell · 20/04/2021 17:08

I’ve definitely missed a trick here, a nugget sized chicken piece is all I’m going to serve from here on out.

Neonprint · 20/04/2021 17:23

I'm a vegetarian so no nothing about chicken. But this thread is either a piss take or the most blatant humble brag I've seen here. I'm not sure which would make it funnier!

Kendodd · 20/04/2021 17:29

So our roast dinner -
The two legs went on two plates but some of the thigh meat stayed attached to the bird so didn't make those plates.
I had one wing and a bit of thigh meat, about two tablespoons full.
Most of one breast on another plate, 2/3 of a breast say.
About half, or slightly less a breast on the last plate (and half of that wasn't eaten so the dog had it).

We also had two or three golf ball size potatoes each.
A large spoonful of carrots, broccoli, green beans and red cabbage, so four spoonfuls of veg.
And about half or quarter a roasted onion each.

We would usually have stuffing but didn't that day because I didn't have any sausages.

The food is all put in dishes on the table so people can help themselves to as much or a little as they like. The only thing I ask (which is ignored) is that they only put as much food as they'll eat on their plate, they can always get more if they want.

I don't think that's an unreasonable meal, it's a full plate.

This left about a litre and a half jug full of chicken meat that I picked off. Probably about third of that was shredded and cooked with peppers etc for the fajitas. I think the meat is better shredded through as you get bits of chicken everywhere without any big dry chunks. I didn't have any so this fed four. We all usually have one big fajita each, sometimes two. I don't think any of us have ever had three but people can have as many as they want.

Didn't watch the kids make their sandwiches so couldn't say how much went in, one might have had loads (by our standards) one might have had hardly any. They all put salad veg on the sandwiches usually although have to admit, I didn't see.

This leaves just over half a litre of chicken which went in the pie with almost a whole pack of bacon. Pie also had leeks and mushrooms. This was served with veg and fed five.

The 'risotto' was made from the stock from the boiled bones with chicken skin 'crackling' on top (Jamie Oliver tip). I had one portion of this when the others had fajita, two portions when in the freezer.

Dog had white grizzly bits and that dark livery bits inside the rib cage as I didn't want that in the stock.

I don't get the outrage about my chicken use!

Oh and for the person who asked, yes it was organic, it was from the farm shop. Smile

And KFC I have a two piece meal but don't usually finish all the chicken.

OP posts:
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 20/04/2021 17:34

@AgnesNaismith

Bollocks
I have never seen these being included when I buy a chicken...

... but I suppose if they were, and they were unfeasibly large then one might well be able to make 17 meals and three sandwiches. 🤷‍♀️

MummytoCSJH · 20/04/2021 17:36

@Kendodd

So our roast dinner - The two legs went on two plates but some of the thigh meat stayed attached to the bird so didn't make those plates. I had one wing and a bit of thigh meat, about two tablespoons full. Most of one breast on another plate, 2/3 of a breast say. About half, or slightly less a breast on the last plate (and half of that wasn't eaten so the dog had it).

We also had two or three golf ball size potatoes each.
A large spoonful of carrots, broccoli, green beans and red cabbage, so four spoonfuls of veg.
And about half or quarter a roasted onion each.

We would usually have stuffing but didn't that day because I didn't have any sausages.

The food is all put in dishes on the table so people can help themselves to as much or a little as they like. The only thing I ask (which is ignored) is that they only put as much food as they'll eat on their plate, they can always get more if they want.

I don't think that's an unreasonable meal, it's a full plate.

This left about a litre and a half jug full of chicken meat that I picked off. Probably about third of that was shredded and cooked with peppers etc for the fajitas. I think the meat is better shredded through as you get bits of chicken everywhere without any big dry chunks. I didn't have any so this fed four. We all usually have one big fajita each, sometimes two. I don't think any of us have ever had three but people can have as many as they want.

Didn't watch the kids make their sandwiches so couldn't say how much went in, one might have had loads (by our standards) one might have had hardly any. They all put salad veg on the sandwiches usually although have to admit, I didn't see.

This leaves just over half a litre of chicken which went in the pie with almost a whole pack of bacon. Pie also had leeks and mushrooms. This was served with veg and fed five.

The 'risotto' was made from the stock from the boiled bones with chicken skin 'crackling' on top (Jamie Oliver tip). I had one portion of this when the others had fajita, two portions when in the freezer.

Dog had white grizzly bits and that dark livery bits inside the rib cage as I didn't want that in the stock.

I don't get the outrage about my chicken use!

Oh and for the person who asked, yes it was organic, it was from the farm shop. Smile

And KFC I have a two piece meal but don't usually finish all the chicken.

Now I know you're joking. 2 pieces of kfc and the tiny portion of chips it comes with and you don't always finish it? Jesus Grin
Kendodd · 20/04/2021 17:41

Now I know you're joking. 2 pieces of kfc and the tiny portion of chips it comes with and you don't always finish it? Jesus

I finish the chips! It depends, sometimes they give you that big dry peice of chicken, that's too much.

OP posts:
limegreenbogie · 20/04/2021 17:43

4 spoons of veg 2 of chicken and 2 small potatoes is not a big meal. Equally 2 small pieces of chicken from kfc and chips is tiny, there's never that much meat on the kfc chicken.

Bluntness100 · 20/04/2021 17:46

This is a wind up. So you ate both legs, a breast and a half, and one of the wings, and got a litre and a half of chicken off of the underneath, half a breast and a wing?

Did you buy this bad boy then? 😂

With my MN chicken I made 17 meals and three sandwiches.
00100001 · 20/04/2021 17:55

This is where OP drop feeds that this was a 7kg chicken...

CityCommuter · 20/04/2021 18:10

@Kendodd I nearly fell for this wind up! OP have you ever thought about writing comedy sketches at all? I think you'd be good at it...

MargaretThursday · 20/04/2021 18:11

That's nothing.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my family had for tea
12 chicken vol-au-vonts
11 Chicken sandwiches
10 portions of risotto
9 chicken burgers
8 chicken pop bites
7 chicken kievs
6 pieces of pie
5 chicken tacos
4 portions of soup
3 chicken wraps
2 stuffed thighs
They were all made out of the Mumsnet chicken

So there.

Anoisagusaris · 20/04/2021 18:15

So a third of a chicken breast, a wing and some thigh meat produced a litre and half of chicken???

QueenPaw · 20/04/2021 18:16

I'm making my tea and looking at my portions like Confused am I way off?!
So this is the veg, I'm added an egg, 125g rice and the chicken is 100g (raw) plus about half a bag of spinach

With my MN chicken I made 17 meals and three sandwiches.
Tinacollada · 20/04/2021 18:17

Well done babes 👏🏻

AliceBlueGown · 20/04/2021 18:17

It must be a wind up - 2 adults and 2 teenagers here (only one ears meat) and a chicken lasts for one meal with stock for soup (if I remember). I enjoy cooking and we like eating. Thankfully we do not have to watch our food bill really closely but we meal plan and I avoid waste (we just eat it all). What I find dispiriting on MN is the competition which always seems to result on these threads. How can you possibly eat so much? How can you possibly think of spending so much money on food? etc. As if eating very little makes you a better person.

Anoisagusaris · 20/04/2021 18:17

I’ve just made chicken and veg curry for 5 using 2 chicken breasts. Fine meal but it was definitely more veg and rice than chicken.

ssd · 20/04/2021 18:17

Thats a monster blunt Grin

Doghead · 20/04/2021 18:21

😂😂😂😂 I've never read so much tripe in my whole life. You must've been extremely bored when you posted this 😂😂😂😂

SilentBob · 20/04/2021 18:22

@QueenPaw neither useful nor interesting but it took me longer than I would care to say to figure out that you weren't cutting vegetables on a paper bag. Defence- don't worry, SilentBob, you're tired. Prosecution- you're a freaking chef, woman!

QueenPaw · 20/04/2021 18:26

@SilentBob Grin I promise it's a chopping board!

abeanbaked · 20/04/2021 18:40

I've never laughed so much at a thread. Grating chicken? Ffs. Crispy chicken skin risotto? 🙄

Surprised your family haven't turned on you and opted for cannibalism if this is how you feed them.

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