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!

@CroutonsAvatar
This was the recipe, its not there now unfortunately

chicken and bacon pie or chicken pasta bake usually but with two chicken loving kids there aren't usually much left

TheMNChernobylChicken

In all the years I've been on this website (many), this is the strangest post I've ever seen. It somehow encapsulates everything wrong with Britain 2021 and why we are all going to die from global warming and eventual famine.

That is crazy! You need to strip the carcass and boil it for stock.
And strip all the meat off and make sandwiches, chicken pasta bake and chicken curry with the meat.
Legs I would marinate in a honey/mustard or bbq sauce and eat as cold with a sandwich or pasta the next day.
I couldn’t leave all that meat what a total waste of food, that would do me for another 2 or 3 meals!

Buy a free range, organic chicken. The price is so high you will find something to do with the rest of it!

This is so fucking sad. An animal died so you could eat 10% of it.

@littledrummergirl You definitely win the MN chicken bingo!
How on earth does one breast feed four people? Even with the rest of a roast that must be a tiny amount of chicken each?

The legs are tasty and also the most nutritious. I use these up in the roast - dd1 has a whole leg, dd2 has a thigh, I have the drumstick from second leg and a large chunk of breast. The brreast I find is more versatile to repurpose (and is nicer cold imo) and it's also quicker and simpler to remove from the bird (I'm also a little lazy)

Strip the bones of all the chicken; use the bones to make stock.

Feed the leftover chicken meat to the dogs for dinner/breakfast. Dog food makes them quite sick so we always feed them chicken anyway.

The least you could do is stick it in a sandwich

@hedgehogger1

The least you could do is stick it in a sandwich

No, apparently nobody in OP’s family can bear the thought of eating cold meat!

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.

Supreme is a breast and a wing, I thought a crown was a two breasts and two wings.
We eat the breast and my children will now eat the legs so there's less waste.
I always make gravy from scratch and I always make stock with the bones. I don't like wings or thighs or the bits from under the chicken though.

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 find them in the prepped fresh meal part of the supermarket where they might have stir fry sets etc with ready chopped veg and meat. They tend to some in a deep foil tray that you roast it in.

Chicken mushroom risotto. So easy to make if you already have leftover chicken.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-mushroom-risotto

I don’t understand “ crowns” they cost about the same as a whole chicken. I don’t really see what the benefit is.

@Divebar2021

I don’t understand “ crowns” they cost about the same as a whole chicken. I don’t really see what the benefit is.

Less waste.

Wow that’s shocking. That animal has died for you to be able to eat and you just eat the breast and throw the rest away. Give it to a neighbour or family member if you can’t be arsed to make a curry or something.

A crown is only less waste if you’re throwing away the rest of a whole chicken.

@Divebar2021

A crown is only less waste if you’re throwing away the rest of a whole chicken.

Which is what OP has been doing.

Which is why people are suggesting them.

Completely missing the point now, but a 13 yr old not to be trusted to strip a Chuck and dispose of the bones?

@JohnMiddleNameRedactedSwanson posting through gritted teeth there

JohnMiddleNameRedactedSwanson posting through gritted teeth there

That's the tone I read it in

@NoSquirrels

After your roast, strip the carcass - you will get loads of meat from the thighs, legs and underneath.

Put the carcass in a pot with a roughly chopped carrot, an onion, celery, some black peppercorns and a bay leaf if you’ve got one. Boil it up for stock.

Next day use the stock and the leftover chicken in any of these:

Risotto (all types!)
Soup (noodle broth is nice)
Chicken pie filling (we like sweetcorn & white sauce, maybe bacon too & ready made pastry)
Sweet & sour chicken/chicken in black bean sauce
Curry
Pasta bake

I generally do this, but at least strip the meat even if I don't get round to making stock.

In addition to the mentioned dishes we also do pie with bought puff pastry or use it to cook normal rice with frozen veg in and then stir in the meat after. Or chop and add to tomato pasta.

My favourite thing to do with left over roast chicken that we now always have on a Monday is warm buttered baguettes (the part baked ones) with the chicken and also left over sausage stuffing (deliberately make extra because obviously left over sausage stuffing isn't a real thing in normal circumstances). With some iceberg lettuce and Mayo. Also some left over Yorkshire's if there are any. We have the meat and stuffing cold but you could heat it or add gravy. Takes minutes to prepare and so tasty