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!

DH strips all the meat off and whacks it in a casserole/slow cooker with a Chicken Chasseur packet mix, carrots, onions and mushrooms and serves it either in a giant Yorkshire pudding, with mashed or roast potatoes or on its own with some thick crusty bread.

Then he puts the carcass in a pot and does something or other with it until he gets the jelly stuff that he uses to make chicken gravy.

@mynameiscalypso

There are so many things! We always have sandwiches but also use it in pasta, risotto, curries, stir fries, pies, tacos, enchiladas. BBC Good Food has lots of good ideas - there's a children, squash and pesto lasagne that I make often.

Children, squash & pesto sounds... umm... interesting

Cover it and put in fridge. The next day, strip the remaining meat off it - just pull it off using your fingers!

Put it in a pie with fried onion, mushrooms and carrots. Ready-made puff pastry on top. (Jamie Oliver has a good easy recipe.) If you can be arsed, make stock with the carcass - makes the pie even nicer.

Wtf? Why don’t you just buy chicken breasts? Get supremes (breasts with a peg bone and the skin on) if you want to roast them.

If we have a whole chicken on Sunday I will strip the carcass and use the meat for a second meal, usually stir-fried with vegetables and udon noodles on Monday. I always make stock from the carcass but often don’t have the energy by Sunday night, so I freeze the carcass, any jellied juices and scraps in a freezer bag and periodically make stock in the instant pot, often with two carcasses.

Coronation chicken!

Crazy! The brown meat is the tastiest part of the chicken. The thighs, the oysters. And leftover chicken is the easiest cold meat to repurpose. I mean sandwiches at the very least!

Strip the carcass and use the meat for sandwiches, in a curry, a stir fry, chicken pasta bake. There's so many things you can do with it. We are same with a family of 4. I strip it for another meal and then the other bits that are from the underneath etc go to the cat, she loves roast chicken days

I love chicken roasts. I love them so much that I double up the roast veg and just have roast dinner 2 days in a row... 1 chicken breast/leg per meal. Second meal is just reheating the leftovers.

I honestly don't believe you... nobody would do that. Easy way to wind up the mums though eh?

Chicken risotto

I separate the left over meat and use it for wraps.
My kids really like it.I do tortilla wraps or pita bread filled with chicken,lettuce,toms cucumber.Sometimes I do tzatziki sauce (grated cucumber,sour cream or yogurt,salt&pepper to add to the wrap.
Or add it to Chinese(noodles,veg and chicken).

I do the same, well I don't cook one every week but when I do it's usually just the breast. There never seems enough meat elsewhere to bother picking at it.

I've started stripping them recently and freezing the meat I take off. Last few weeks I've frozen the meat and put the carcass in the slow cooker with some water to make stock, which I've then frozen.
Also strip any remaining bits after its been in the slow cooker and give them to the dog.

I made a chicken and leek pie this week - used 3 weeks chicken meat and 1.5 weeks stock. Basically this www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie/ but 1/2 quantities (well same amount of bacon and leeks, cream rather than crème fraîche and don't bother with the chestnuts).

Chicken sandwiches are my favourite.

Ds's put the chicken on pizza.

Oh fgs.

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.

@napody

I honestly don't believe you... nobody would do that. Easy way to wind up the mums though eh?

That's what I was thinking!

Then I got distracted by children risotto

I make stock like @NoSquirrels and use it for a huge chicken and veg soup that lasts 2 meals, using whatever root veg I have in and tins if sweetcorn / kidney beans/ chickpeas/lentils.

Before this is there's enough left (variable) I strip off most of the chicken and use in chicken fried rice like @ChazsBrilliantAttitude but with steps of omlette mixed in too

Pretty horrified at the waste from binning it tbh, if you don't like any of the other bits just buy breasts

@littledrummergirl

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.

One chicken breast between four adults (or near enough)?

Chicken risotto and cock-a-leekie soup for me. Or chicken fried rice. I’m not that keen on the leg meat either tbh, so I almost never buy a whole chicken.

God that's awful! So wasteful.

We strip all the meat off down to the bones, all the bits we dont want go to the cats with the rest we have chicken sandwiches for lunch then use the rest for pasta normally or a pie filling.

@littledrummergirl

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.

I was about to say that no-one had yet mentioned the MN trope of one chicken feeding a family of four for a week, but I was too late ...

Thursday you looked at a picture of a roast chicken

Is one chicken breast between four people not a bit miserly? Go wild and split two breasts between four.

You’re either buying a massive chicken or as a family of four you have tiny appetites. There’s barely scraps for the dog in this house after a roast!

Sorry but that is awful! Apart from the waste of money, a living creature was killed for you to eat. I eat chicken but I use all of it, that’s the least you can do if you eat meat.

Pie ? Chicken fried rice or even chicken and chips to use it up. What a waste just buy chicken breasts and roast those.