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To throw away the chicken every week?

716 replies

Fluffyhood · 04/02/2021 20:41

I know IABU but I need to be shamed so I start doing something about it!
Family of 4, we have a roast chicken every week, we eat the breast meat and then I throw away the rest every week, I hate doing it but I'm too lazy and unimaginative to think of what to do with the rest of it!
Please shame me and tell me what you do with yours, I'd love to make it stretch to another meal!

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Mumtwoboys90 · 05/02/2021 00:56

Whatever about waste, but unless you're a vegetarian it's a bit daft being righteous about the fact the animal was slaughtered so therefore you must consume every inch of it. I don't think the chicken cares how much of it's carcass gets used up. It's no less disrespectful to eat all of it. Slaughter is slaughter.

exactly this!! I don't think the dead cooked chicken cares if its been eaten or in the bin but some people seem to think so ....Confused

Staffy1 · 05/02/2021 00:59

Use it for lunches - chicken rolls, chicken salads or just bits of chicken as snacks.

Staffy1 · 05/02/2021 01:01

Or if you have a dog, give the left over pieces to it for dinner, minus the bones. That's what we used to do with ours, I was a bit irritated with a guest who helped themselves to it and deprived the dog.

Rubybluesy · 05/02/2021 01:05

Omg such a waste! Have it cold the next day or make curry, risotto, pasta dish then soup from the carcass

Rubybluesy · 05/02/2021 01:06

Also try a different roast now and then

IM0GEN · 05/02/2021 01:26

@justanotherneighinparadise

Okay, I’ll admit I’m a freak but I used to do similar and now I do the complete opposite, but I have a technique!

We roast the chicken and it feeds four of us. Then I put it in the fridge and ignore it till the next day. Then I put it back in the oven and cook it just long enough for everything to go yummy and crispy. Then I take off the meat that’s now hot and crunchy and have that with my lunch. Then I put it back in the fridge. Then the following day I take it back out, turn it over and cook the underside. So that goes all crunchy and hot and I eat the underside with my lunch, and then I bin it (it’s my dirty secret, no one knows I do this 😳).

This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever read on MN 😮

I have no idea why you don’t have food poisoning. You cook the chicken, put it back in the fridge hot and do the same again. Twice. 🤢

I can’t decide who I’m worried about more - you or the poor staving teenagers who get a quarter of a chicken breast each.

JocastaElastic · 05/02/2021 01:26

Chicken pie, chicken fajitas, chicken sandwiches, chicken curry, chicken and rice, chicken chow-mien or chicken wraps; then boil the bones for stock to make risotto or soup. YABTU!! If you make the decision to kill an animal for food, then surely you have an ethical duty to actually eat it, every bit? I think to throw most of it away is shameful.

Woolwichgirl · 05/02/2021 01:30

"To throw away the children every week"
Thats what I saw😃

caringcarer · 05/02/2021 01:30

We only eat the breast meat too op but I pull off the other meat, check no bones pull off skin and feed to our 4 cats who love it. We have chicken one week, pork next, then beef, then lamb and cats always like meat too. I would feel bad just throwing it away when some kids go hungry.

ineedtogooutlater · 05/02/2021 01:36

After reading this thread I really felt like chicken. Went and got half a chicken and chips. Was salted perfectly.

Afterward I ate a donut.

MrsClatterbuck · 05/02/2021 01:42

How about a smaller chicken so there is just enough for the four of you. DH prefers the breast and I prefer the thigh and leg. So a win all round. I usually attack the chicken when just out of oven for that lovely thigh meat

IHaveBrilloHair · 05/02/2021 01:52

You don't actually have to do anything with the leftovers if you really can't be bothered, other than eat them!
I love plain roast chicken, a bit of mayo or some mustard and I'm v happy.

1forAll74 · 05/02/2021 02:08

If you can't be bothered to make any more meals with the left over chicken, just strip the remaining meat off, and give it to a neighbour who has a dog or cat, binning it is seriously bad.

Taikoo · 05/02/2021 02:39

What a waste.

Furries · 05/02/2021 03:18

@Fluffyhood - haven’t read the full thread, only your posts. Am assuming numerous people will probably have mentioned this, but another one for the vote won’t hurt!

Chicken crown, all the way! I agree with you - chicken breasts taste nothing like roasting a chicken. I don’t like the keg/wing meat, but cooking a crown means I get loads of the meat I prefer with no waste.

SuperSharpShooter · 05/02/2021 03:51

I know where you’re going wrong OP... I get it, you make a roast dinner then can’t be arsed with stripping the chicken. Soooo, you get someone else to do it. Perfect job for the 13 yr old (whilst you make the gravy?) and stick it in the fridge once it cooled. My 13 yr old finds it easier when the Chuck is still a bit warm, and he gets the oysters. Faff free and ready to use 😉

PurplePansy05 · 05/02/2021 03:58

I strip it off as soon as it cools down a bit, cut out the larger pieces and strip off the rest, usually for chicken fajitas or for pulled chicken for burgers, or curry. All delicious. I also sometimes use the leftover meat as well as the bones (which I later remove) to cook a delightful chicken broth, tiny bits of carrot, parsley and some very thin rice noodles with it, et voila. Delish.

PurplePansy05 · 05/02/2021 03:59

Also, I'd do it myself, I wouldn't trust a 13 yo to get rid of all the bones properly.

BarbaraofSeville · 05/02/2021 04:31

All those people suggesting a chicken crown, where are you buying them? I don't think I've ever seen one for sale. Obviously I've seen turkey crowns at Christmas, but never a chicken one.

Plus the fact is that plain chicken breasts costs quite a bit more than whole chicken, so there won't be much moneytary saving compared with buying a whole bird, although obviously the waste of the rest of the chicken is wrong for all manner of reasons and hopefully this is something the OP is going to stop doing.

Mummyoflittledragon · 05/02/2021 04:46

@BarbaraofSeville
I get food deliveries. Just checked. Both Tesco and Ocado do chicken crown.

makingmammaries · 05/02/2021 04:53

Don’t know how you have leftover chicken. We had nothing left from our Christmas turkey by the end of the day.

But seriously, either invest in a jar of curry or pasta sauce ((strip chicken, reheat and serve) or buy smaller chickens.

IHaveBrilloHair · 05/02/2021 04:57

I've never seen chicken crowns either, interesting that you can get them.
Tbf it's not something I'd buy really as I much prefer thighs.

justanotherneighinparadise · 05/02/2021 06:39

@GingerScallop

This sounds like a recipient for food poisoning!

It's a myth that reheating twice gives food poisoning. It's been heavily promoted but there is no scientific basis and contributes to unimaginable good waste. Same as the use by nonsense. Might be unpleasant for roast chicken but if it's heated to 70 to a 100 deg most organisms will die. It's the poor handling/over handling that gets food poisoning

Thank you 😊

Not dead yet!!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/02/2021 06:51

@MrsClatterbuck

How about a smaller chicken so there is just enough for the four of you. DH prefers the breast and I prefer the thigh and leg. So a win all round. I usually attack the chicken when just out of oven for that lovely thigh meat
And those delicious oysters underneath . . .

And, of course, the SKIN!

Crispy, salty, fatty and delicious!

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM

speakout · 05/02/2021 06:54

Legs are the best part! Tastiest meat.
I often buy cooked legs for lunches.