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!

Been bookmarking this thread like a mofo... Thanks to all who posted recipes.

But agree that this is probably a wind-up.

I made this once from a leftover roast and it was so good, I started buying chicken pieces specially just so I could make it. The best chicken soup ever! It's so thick it makes a complete meal. (Don't cut up the veg too small.)

Chicken soup

Ingredients
• Leftover roast chicken (approx 1 1/2 pounds, diced)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 carrots diced
• 1 small onion
• 2 stalks celery diced
• 5 tablespoons flour divided
• 1/2 teaspoon rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme
• 1/4 teaspoon sage
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 1/2 cups potatoes peeled and diced
• 1 1/2 cups sweet potatoes peeled and diced
• 1/2 red pepper finely diced
• 1/4 cup white wine
• 4 cups chicken broth or chicken stock
• 1 cup green beans or peas
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Instructions

1. Cook onion, carrot and celery in olive oil for about 3 minutes or until onion is slightly softened. Stir in 3 tablespoons of flour, seasonings and salt & pepper to taste. Cook over medium heat about 2 minutes.
2. Add potatoes, sweet potatoes, red pepper, white wine, browned chicken and broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for 30 minutes.
3. Remove lid and stir in green beans/peas and cream. Simmer an additional 10 minutes uncovered.

@biddybird do you blend that? Sounds wonderful

@midnightstar66 I don't blend it as we prefer it chunky in my house.
(It is so good—when I first discovered it I must have made it six times in the following month!)
I've also made it with just breast meat (use around 4 breasts) but I think it is best with a mixture of light and dark.

I opened this threat because I thought who has leftover chicken. I buy an extra large and it’s all gone after a roast 😂. However reading through all the suggestions and recipes, I am now very hungry!! And have a list of things I’m going to try although I’ll just need to buy extra chicken. I used to love chicken in white sauce, my mum made it lovely it’s really nice with mushrooms in it too.

Off for lunch as my stomach is doing somersaults thinking about all this lovely food.

These are the ones I usually get (live alone and never want a full chicken!)

We had already planned to have roast chicken on Sunday this week, but now I’m even more excited about it! I’m going to cook the extra large one so there’ll be lots left over...

I make something quite similar to the recipe above whenever we need to use whatever veg is languishing in the drawer - usually a minestrone, but sometimes vary the theme a little. If we have extra chicken that needs using, that goes in as well.

I forgot to recommend one of my most favourite leftover recipes for chicken:

Braised peas with spring onions and lettuce

Make this (or an approximation with whatever needs using, e.g. leeks and a bag of lettuce leaves), add leftover chicken - either the leg/breast joint as is, or thinly sliced/shredded, and warm through gently. Serve over rice, or with garlic bread.

@Joeblack066 OMG sounds lovely. Sort of thing I would do. Yum.

Curry
Chicken pie
Enchiladas
Sandwhiches

I'm reporting this!

A whole roast chicken is one of the most economical and delicious ways to eat chicken!
We tend to do the breast meat for a roast the day it's cooked, then I take all the rest of the meat off the bone once it's cooled, and it's lovely heated through with a curry sauce the next day, or stirred through pasta, or cold in sandwiches, or even just to snack on.

I'm afraid I am one of those who can stretch a chicken.

A large chicken will make two family meals for 4 plus stock for soup.
If I have a trad roast chicken it will onlly be a slice or two of chicken, most of my family prefer the pigs in blankets anyway.
A cupful of leftover chicken will make a big panful of chicken fried rice, or stir fried chicken with noodles with lots of veg, or chopped to make tacos, with loads of other stuff like refried beans, black beans, cheese etc.
I rarely throw away a carcass without making stock- I strain and reduce it, then freeze.

Apparently chicken thighs and legs have more nutrients than white breast meat. I was told that last year by a very reliable source.

@biddybird isn’t that recipe just common or garden chicken and vegetable soup? I mean, sounds lovely and all but did you really need a recipe to tell you how to make that?

@HaveringWavering I've had many chicken soups but this one beats them all! I think it's the wine and cream…

[quote biddybird]@HaveringWavering I've had many chicken soups but this one beats them all! I think it's the wine and cream…[/quote]
Fair enough. There are few things that wine and cream don’t improve!

@Divebar2021

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

I used to work in a deli years ago. All the old single ladies used to buy crowns of Chicken. Thighs etc wete usually wasted

Some of the recipes here sound really nice

This illustrates why people shouldn't be buying battery farmed chickens (which have all had a very shitty and very short life) from the supermarket for £3 each.

Meat simply should not be that cheap. An animal has been raised and slaughtered for you to use maybe half of it's carcass for one meal and throw the rest away. Spend the money on a proper free range chicken from the butcher and use the whole bird - once you've paid £15 for the meat you'll probably have more respect for it. (not aimed at you specifically OP!)

Please god this is a troll?!?

I bloody love left over roast chicken from the whole bird. Favourite ways to use it the following day is definitely either Jo Wicks chicken and leek pie (so so easy) or a curry. Then boil carcass for a stock (am I the only one who looks mournfully at the carcass after stock making and still feel wrong for chucking it?!). Then use this for either risotto (makes a world of difference to a stock cube) or chicken noodle soup.

I was in M & S yesterday and chuffed to its to get a couple of birds with yellow stickers. Roasted them both when I got home, ate all the gorgeous crispy skin to myself stripped off the meat while eating loads, oddly didn't need lunch after which I've portioned to freeze. And made a huge pot of stock.

In fact my mum now freezes and saves her carcasses for me

Please OP, try some of the ace suggestions on this thread, there is no excuse for how wasteful you're being.

Very jealous of the beautiful foxes that visit the Diverse garden

years since I ate meat but cheap chicken breast used to have about as much flavor and texture as damp kitchen roll.

If you don't really like chicken, you might as well have Quorn

I know I've posted in AIBU and quite rightly have been told IABU but can I just point out if you've only come onto this thread to call me an idiot and suggest the post is made up or that I am a troll then I can assure you I am not stupid and that this post is serious.
I hold my hands up to being lazy and was only looking for inspiration because I no longer want to waste food.
I have never seen a chicken crown for sale where I shop (aldi) but I will keep an eye out as perhaps I have missed it.
My DP and DS are both fussy and will only eat breast meat so even if they refuse to eat the rest then I will start using it for me and DD.

Thank you to those who have been helpful and to those who haven't, I dont expect anybody to agree with me about wasting food but if you've just commented to be cruel, then have a nice day ✌