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!

Cut it up for sandwiches, cut up and pop in a curry, cut up for fajitas or lunchtime wraps.

Gosh OP I’m shocked 😵

Lots of great suggestions on here, please change your ways.

I cook excess potatoes and veg, next day all left overs chopped up and thrown in a pot with seasoning and chicken stock and low boil for an hour or so, makes a lovely stew.

We eat a whole chicken between 3 of us

Please stop wasting food. That's crazy you don't get around to using it. Do you just let it sit there and forget about it?

I make bubble & squeek with all the leftovers after a roastie, it's delish, you could also do sandwiches next day or a curry.

Just buy chicken breasts then

Surely you eat the two "oysters " from the bottom of the carcass?, 2 moist tasty morsels of chicken found underneath the carcass.
My guess, you know you are being unreasonable.
For goodness sake have a little respect for the chicken and any fellow humans going hungry.

Curry, stew, lasagna, tacos, enchiladas, tortillas, jambalaya, coronation chicken, sweet and sour, teriyaki, pasta bake, chilli, kebabs, ragu, pie, casserole

Loads of recipes.
Or, just but the breasts.

I hate food waste. Good on your for acknowledging and trying to adapt. Many won’t.

Curry/soup/there’s a really nice nice pot chicken and mushroom risotto on the bbc good food website that uses cooked chicken

Add chopped chicken to stir fried veg with a sachet of chinese sauce, serve with microwaved egg fried rice.

Or the easiest one - make up 2 packs of Batchelor's savoury rice (I prefer beef flavour) with a little extra water, add the chopped chicken half way through cooking. Serve with a couple of green vegetables like peas/broccoli.

Cut the rest of the meat up in biggish chunks. Dip in beaten egg and then breadcrumbs and bake for easy chicken goujons.

The best thing about having a roast dinner is having cold roast meat with oven chips and pickles two days later.

Chicken soup so easy with the veg soup pack (chop and add)

Cold chicken, straight from the fridge, liberally sprinkled with flaked salt.

Oh I want some right now!

Bone broth - so easy and yummy. My very fussy DD loves it with just some stock & angel hair 😋

In my house. I roast a chicken once a week for my Labrador... my husband gets the left overs . Chicken and Mayo sandwiches, chicken pasta, topping for a pizza...

I only like chicken breast too.

Which is why I buy a crown rather than a whole chicken.

Even if you really can't be bothered to do something with it why not give it all to the animals not just "a little bit". I find this very weird. I hate food waste.

I haven't read all of this massively repetitive thread. I just wanted to report that on the back of it I've added a big chicken to my next supermarket delivery. We will have it roasted on one day and I will use the leftovers in various ways on succeeding days, including making stock. Love chicken stock for soup or risotto. I think chicken fried rice will make an appearance. Sandwiches certainly will, I adore chicken sandwiches. Bread must be buttered and the cold chicken must be liberally sprinkled with salt and pepper. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I might add a sliced tomato, or just possibly some lettuce or cucumber. If there's enough on another day I could go wild and make another sandwich with mayo and/or pesto and some salad, or put this mix in a pitta. Salivating now.

this week we bought one large chicken for two teens and two adults.
sunday they had a roast so used one breast.
monday was fajitas so the other breadt was used.
tuesday we stripped the rest of the meat and they had chicken and veg curry.
wednesday i boiled the carcass and used the stock and remaining scrappy bits of meat in a stew.

fuck me that chicken must be size of an emu

It's an extraordinary waste of animal produce that is hard to justify when

1. the cost of growing each of those chickens is so high
2. many people in food poverty would regard what you throw as a feast
3. you could make three meals from what you bin of each bird
4. using what you treat as waste to feed people is not hard...

I'm not a veggie but do feel a responsibility, if an animal has been slaughtered, to at least use it judiciously eg all flesh that's not being served up in chunks going into soups and sauces, and bones being boiled up for stocks and broths. You can get at least two meals for a family of four from one chicken. Our planet can't afford to produce all that stuff to chuck. Just as any young person - they'll give you chapter and verse (and probably a recipe or two)...

At the very least use it for sandwiches or wraps the next day. If not buy a smaller chicken/just breasts. It's such a waste.

How old are your DC? Surely it's good parenting to train THEM to strip the left-over meat off the chicken carcase and leave it in a bowl to make another meal?

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

Sorry you've had a hard time OP. I'm sure you're not stupid but the problem is... this thread is really stupid. You buy a whole chicken only to eat the breast?? And you say you want ideas of what to do with leftover chicken, is that right? I mean, the very obvious answer is to use it to make literally any dish that has chicken in it.

It's all strange.

I was thinking the exact same thing! How sanctimonious and mean are some of these posts!