To throw away the chicken every week?

[Fluffyhood]

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!

Occasionally I make Thai salt chicken shreds which basically tastes like the skin, and does include skin but also the rest of the chicken.
It's amazing.

Chicken and Brie toasted under the grill (usually use DH’s sourdough but bagels work well) with some cranberry sauce

If there’s enough, have it cold with baked potatoes/salad, livened up with a sort of dip on the side made from mayonnaise with curry powder plus a little mango chutney and lemon juice.

Or occasionally, in a pie - with mash on top of occasionally pastry - with onion, leeks and mushrooms.
Chicken sandwiches.
Pick all the rest of the meat off, keep in packs in the freezer labelled Chick Bits, to add to e.g, a stir fry or egg fried rice.

The carcass is broken up and goes in a pan with onion, carrot, celery, peppercorns, parsley if I have any, for stock which usually goes in the freezer for a future soup.

I've never seen a chicken crown for sale. The closest thing my butcher does is supremes, but you don't get good gravy from them.

OP, not unimaginative, just severely lacking in the cognitive abilities across the board, clearly.

@Kotbullar

I've never seen a chicken crown for sale. The closest thing my butcher does is supremes, but you don't get good gravy from them.

Actually I have, in Aldi!

After a roast chicken, I strip the remainder down to the bone (the edible stuff not slimy etc) and make chicken and veg soup. It's lovely.

Sometimes we have sandwiches with leftovers, or i break up the meat for the dog. Other times i forget the leftovers are in the oven (hiding from my thieving cat) and they end up in the bin.

Well I've googled and it seems that they sell chicken crowns in just about every supermarket.

In my defence, we buy just about all our meat in M&S (stock up when on offer and I have a £5 off when you spend £40 voucher, so it's not expensive) or the local farm shop, and I don't think they sell them and I've obviously never looked at chicken in Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's or Aldi etc.

I rarely buy meat from the supermarket so that's probably why!

Give your cat and dog what meat you won't eat! Why would you rather throw it away?

And if you don't want to eat the leftovers cold just pull all the remaining meat off the carcass the next day, heat it and use for whatever as people have said: salad, sandwiches, curry, pasta, risotto...it really isn't that hard.

I always strip the meat off the next day and put the better meat for human consumption, some of it, including any flappy skin bits for the cats who love it, and then boil the carcass for stock that can be used for soup, risotto, etc.

I agree with some of the posters, you should be ashamed!

As I began I find it particularly obnoxious to waste meat.

*vegan 🙄

@Fr0thandBubble

As I began I find it particularly obnoxious to waste meat.

I'm a meat eater and I still find it obnoxious.

I'm a bit new to roasts (but a total convert!) and for me the easiest option is chicken soup. Strip off the meat and chuck the carcass in too for flavour.

I always have the legs when we have our roast dinner, they are the best bit IMO.

If you have dogs, I make chicken carcass stew, with vegetables ( not onion though) I pop some rice in. Let it go cold, remove the bones and my two have fresh, healthy and very very cheap dog food. HD gets a bit grumpy that the leftovers go to the dogs but he is well aware that the dogs get second pickings over the chicken.

Just have the legs cold the next day with chips and salad if you can't be bothered to do anything more than that. We do that quite often.

Wow. That is a waste. If you don’t care for brown meat, you would be best buying individual breasts and wrapping them in streaky bacon or pancetta. Can even stuff them with stuffing. Which I do often.

I use chicken leftovers and any left over veg in a creamy mustardy chicken pot pie with Parmesan on top of the potatoes. Always goes down well. It’s that or in husbands sandwiches.

@IHaveBrilloHair

Ooooh! Could you possibly post the recipe for that?

I had so big chicken breast from halal butchers few times that it was actually for 2 people, but bloody hell. Splitting even that between 4? It's better then to just not bother with it and make just the rest

@Fr0thandBubble

As I began I find it particularly obnoxious to waste meat.

As you can see from the thread meat eaters do to. Basically anyone with brain🤷🏻

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I add bayleaf and all spice too. Superb

I've never seen a chicken crown for sale. The closest thing my butcher does is supremes, but you don't get good gravy from them

You get even less gravy makings from a crown - a supreme is just crown plus wings isn’t it? Im assuming someone who chicks put most of a chicken once a week isn’t making gravy from scratch though.

Have the breast meat for dinner then strip the rest of the meat off and put in a bowl mixed with mayo for sandwiches. If you do it when you’ve cooked it for dinner it’s done then so not a task waiting for you to get back to.
I usually cook chicken and then put gloves on and strip everything - breasts aside for dinner, rest aside for sandwiches.

@Fluffyhood

My DD is only 1 so she's not eating a large portion, there is plenty of meat for the 3 of us (DS is 13)

This is really making me see how wasteful I am, I wont be throwing it away next week until I've used it all trust me!

I’m so glad you’re going to stop throwing meat away. I often buy a small whole chicken. I make it do a roast with veg and trimmings and then the next night we have either chicken and chips or a jacket potato and chicken, both served with salad. There’s enough then to have chicken salad sandwiches for lunch.

I mix the serving of chicken so everyone gets leg, breast and bits and bobs that you can scrape off.

Just eating the breast is bonkers, quite honestly. The other bits of the chicken are tastier and more succulent.