To never let my children eat roast chicken skin

[BubbleFairy]

So that I get it all to myself to scoff in the kitchen whilst carving the chicken? Crispy, juicy, amazing stuff. Not sure the kids even realise the chicken comes with a skin.......

I do exactly the same, I can't help it especially when it's really crispy!

Yes, yes you are. You need to share it with your kids to prove your mummyness.

When I was pregnant with DS1 I knew before the test, as the smell of FILs roast chicken in front of me made me boak.

I had to avoid roast chicken, and rotisseries in supermarkets, for THREE months.

This is what makes me even more stubborn at hiding the delight from him. He's got crackling. Not knowing the deliciousness of the chicken skin is punishment for making me heave at it for my whole first trimester.

My DS says to those who eat all the skin and leave nothing for their children:
Shame on you!
He had the most shocked face when I told him what some mothers did. Just so that he values the one he has.

Porky, your Grandma is my hero! That sounds delicious. I am going to do a chicken roast on Sunday solely to try what you have described her making.

Lweji you are very welcome - glad I have managed to put you up there in your son's estimations for mum of the year

Soubriquet

I only buy skinless breast fillets so that there is nothing nasty on them

It's the reason we only have roast chicken once in a while, maybe two or three times a year as I can't afford it very often

zuckicat

I also only eat chicken breasts. I find meat on the bone gross too.

But by the sounds of this thread perhaps I don't know what I'm missing!

Thought you were going to say because it is all toxic or unhealthy etc.
This is why I don't eat it or can stomach it.

I only buy skinless breast fillets so that there is nothing nasty on them

There is also nothing tasty on them! You might as well use tofu, or cardboard.

That is why you soak the breast meat in the juices.
Particularly if you roast it with some garlic and lots of lemon and onion. Yummmm.

user

That is what I like though!

I will never ever eat the skin or fat or any chicken that is not white, I find it very tasty!

One time I bought a whole chicken and gave the skin to the cats, they gave me a look of pure disgust and wouldn't touch it

I am the only person who tastes this in the house. DS1 spurns it, DS2 did once eat tiny shards of it but no longer wants to, and DH thinks it's 'greasy'. I think he's missing the point. Chicken generally arrives in the dining room a little bit naked.

yy to mopping up the caramelised juices at the bottom of the roasting pan, too. I will also take crispy beef fat off DH's plate, and since DS1 doesn't care for bacon rind, I've taken to trimming it off before plating up, and popping the rind back into the frying pan for me. [shame]

In Portugal, where my dad's from, they make a delicious lemony chicken soup from boiling an entire chicken in stock and then serving the chickeny, lemony stock as soup, then the tender boiled chicken pieces and lastly, the skin and more bits of chicken, which have been popped back into the oven expressly to crisp up. Yum.

Oh my actual god, I have found my people! I LOVE chicken skin and could eat it by the shedload - I can never find a big enough chicken. My youngest occasionally asks but, mysteriously, gets told 'there's none this time'. As for the juices that caramelise.............. drooooooool.

I also don't understand why you can't buy chicken 'scratchings' in a bag.

One of my favourite restaurants serves the whole roast chicken skin, minus the chicken (my son always wonders how they do it). If there are a lot of kids with us, we have to order two or three, or there'll be fighting. It comes with homemade sriracha.

Sometimes it's tough living in Bangkok, but there are perks ;)

Oh and no, you're not BU! My son goes crazy for the skin and it's a tense negotiation every time.

I think a lot of us grew up during a time when fat was considered the biggest food evil, and so people deprived themselves, or ate it guiltily. My dad always cut it off and threw it away, and a few years ago when we cooked him a perfect roast duck, there was almost war when he cut it off. Now I'm wondering if he indeed threw it away!

But now there's a growing body of evidence that the low fat advice isn't necessarily the best, that it's much better to eat a pile of veg with chicken skin, than a load of refined sugar and carbs. We try to teach our son balance, so we don't ban sweet stuff completely but we don't buy processed foods (plus in Thailand, you really don't want to!), white sugar or fizzy drinks. So I believe there's definitely room in a healthy well-balanced diet for a bit of chicken skin. And we don't hesitate to use goose fat, pork fat, duck fat in our cooking.

YANBU My children were about 8 before they rumbled that green jelly babies were not technically poisonous to children and now I have to share

dansmum that's ace!

Oh I am with you OP

None of my DCs or DP like the skin , all the more for me then

YABU, are you always this controlling and possessive?

You can buy chicken scratchings in a bag. I bought some in Haverfordwest (other towns are also available..)
www.fowlscratchings.com

Chicken skin straight out of the oven belongs to me. Sadly my DH of 23 years loves it too so we feed bits to each other, while it's so hot it hurts to eat it. That's true love.

c3pu you say that like they're bad personality traits

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