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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.

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 07:57

Plus imo, it would lead to a less tasty fajita.

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Bluntness100 · 20/04/2021 07:59

The thing is if budget is tight, as it is for many, then eat meat a couple of times a week and enjoy it. Then eat veggie the rest of the time. This taking a chicken and giving everyone w scrap each is just silly. Eat the chicken, enjoy it, have veggie meals the rest of the time.

00100001 · 20/04/2021 08:04

@BaggoMcoys

So do some people really eat just one single fajita as their whole meal? I'd be starving!
To be fair. I have 1.

But it's a MASSIVE wrap, and stuffed full, and we have potato products, salads, sweetcorn in some form and some smokey beans too

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worriedatthemoment · 20/04/2021 08:06

Wlell in my house 1 chicken generally does 4 roast dinners and the dog
1 breast or leg per person and the dog has the meat of the underside, wings etc
My teenagers would only want to eat crap if i gave them just one slice chicken

Pumperthepumper · 20/04/2021 08:09

@Kendodd

Why do you just not put chicken in then and reduce the waste? Why would putting more chicken in reduce the waste? Surely it would just change the proportions of the waste?
No because you would use more of the beans and stuff you’re currently binning to replace the absent chicken.

Why boast about minuscule amounts of chicken in each fajita if you’re binning other stuff?

worriedatthemoment · 20/04/2021 08:15

Why are you trying so hard to make a chicken stretch yet say you have leftovers that go in the bin , why not re use then too ?

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 08:39

Well with the chicken, it would have been cooked twice, once in the roast and once in the pan, the veg wouldn't be crisp anymore. I don't waste much, I usually pitch it about right, nobody wants any more and there's just a little bit over.

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 08:51

Somebody joked upthread about grating chicken, I don't think that's a bad idea! In a fajita we'd only want a little bit of chicken distributed evenly though the other ingredients so it's sort of shredded, we wouldn't want big chunks of chicken anyway. It's a bit like you only want a little bit of grated cheese on a bolognese.
Admittedly, I would never have gotten even two family dinners out of one chicken if chicken was 50% of the food on each plate.

I think my enormous number of meals from one chicken is a combination of not eating massive meals and meat to non meat ratio.

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vodkaredbullgirl · 20/04/2021 08:54

Lucky if a whole chicken lasts for a day in my house. 3 adults and 2 dogs, they too have to have their roast dinner Grin

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 08:56

I friend of mine has beautiful china. She buys sets from the charity shops and just uses it as her everyday stuff so every meal looks like a celebration. Her dinner plates are tiny though, shows how much we've changed.

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 08:58

they too have to have their roast dinner

Lucky dogs! Mine only gets a full roast dinner at Christmas Smile

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 09:02

And as for saving money, if you just buy it from the supermarket I don't think theres much on sale that's cheaper than a chicken, you don't need to be stingy with it, I didn't (genuinely) think I was, I just thought people threw loads more away than me.

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Imnotbent · 20/04/2021 09:04

@ArianaDumbledore

Wow, that actually sounds very glutenous to me. I just pop on a slide show of cooked chicken and we all sit and think chickeny thoughts.
^^This has me howling.

I have woken up to this thread and a new dish called not chicken not risotto, beak curry, one chicken fajita each and a chicken skin whip..,

@minniemomo has the best life she gets to share a whole chicken with her DH and he puts the dishwasher on, I love it.

@Bluntness100 I always love your posts but the calculations of this dinner with a half of potato have thrilled me.

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 09:06

Oh, and the kids made their own sandwiches so it was their choice how much meat to put in.

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Imnotbent · 20/04/2021 09:07

and for anyone old enough to remember ...

Imnotbent · 20/04/2021 09:09

I've lost it at grated chicken ... I have to get off this thread I have work to do

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 09:09

@Bluntness100 I always love your posts but the calculations of this dinner with a half of potato have thrilled me.

I think Bluntness got the calculation about right! One large, baking size potato, cut into quarters for roasting, about two quarters each (ok, maybe three).

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Bluntness100 · 20/04/2021 09:13

@Bluntness100 I always love your posts but the calculations of this dinner with a half of potato have thrilled me

You’re welcome, I do like a bit of a mathematical calculation when it comes to chicken portions.

To put it into context the op and her family habe the equivalent of one chicken nugget per meal as their average portion size. 😃

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Kendodd · 20/04/2021 09:16

Maybe we just eat very little in our house? I don't think so though.
I am trying to cut down on meat for environmental reasons and I trying to cut out fish completely (and I love fish). We do like meat though so a little bit works fine, infact setting aside environmental or any other reasons I think it tastes better with less. Cutting out seafood will be a hardship though.

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ShrikeAttack · 20/04/2021 09:16

A quarter of a chicken breast and half a roast potato does not a roast dinner make.

Is this really all you're feeding secondary-age DC?

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 20/04/2021 09:18

@Kendodd

I would say the most children per person was on the roast dinner and even then it would have only been 20% of the meal max. This would be a completely normal amount for us. I guess we like veg!
No wonder the chicken went so far if you're bulking it out with roast child.
Pumperthepumper · 20/04/2021 09:30

@Kendodd

And as for saving money, if you just buy it from the supermarket I don't think theres much on sale that's cheaper than a chicken, you don't need to be stingy with it, I didn't (genuinely) think I was, I just thought people threw loads more away than me.
But you throw loads away too!

It’s always strange to me that people make a sort of moral stance on meat waste (because an animal died, I suppose) but not on general food waste.

ArianaDumbledore · 20/04/2021 09:34

No wonder the chicken went so far if you're bulking it out with roast child.

Mn children are always rake thin so not much meat. The challenge is they are so very tall (with especially long legs) it's a bugger to fit them in the crockpot.

Livpool · 20/04/2021 09:35

When I do chicken curry my 5 year old DS has a whole chicken breast to himself!!!

Eek

vodkaredbullgirl · 20/04/2021 09:38

Roast child Grin