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!

@mimosaadorna - I am not a meat eater either, I was raised on a meat diet but after seeing the shocking conditions and treatment of farmed animals, I could no longer support the cruelty and violence anymore. I honestly wish I did it sooner, also with animal farming being a major contributor to global warming, it seems the most ethical path to choose now. I also respect others rights to eat meat though!

Chicken curry

That’s mad . I bought 3 small chickens from the supermarket for £10 today . 2 are now in the freezer and I have roasted one for dinner. Later I will strip all the meat from the carcass and we will have risotto tomorrow. The bones will make a fabulous stock overnight , half for freezing and half for soup. One chicken will make at least 6 meals for 2.
Not using every bit is such a terrible waste....I reckon your food costs must be high.

I cannot fathom how you could throw the chicken legs away -
Mumsnet uses the chicken 4.5 x in use.
Weekly Roast-

• roast meal

Left over meat easily sorted.

• pasta, Soups, salad, toasted sandwich, Pizza topping

We drain the cooking chicken juices for stock for use in other dishes - store in jars in the fridge for use over the week in soups, lasgna, sauces, stirfry etc. Never buy chicken stock.

If there is anything left- we give all our food scraps to foxes.. versus contributing landfills..
Feels more humane , respectful of the animal than throwing away.

Just buy a beef joint, pork joint or lamb?? No legs on them!

Sorry, I don't get peoples comments on the chicken dying so you need to eat it all? You either think it's ok to kill animals for food or you don't....somberly eating every last piece thinking about it's death is a bit strange.

It is a waste though so at least there are plenty of ideas.

@TwinkleStar88 - I’m totally with you. My husband was an agronomist for a big chemical company, and he too is Vegan - he often says, “ if you showed people how their burger got from cow to McD’s they’d be too ashamed to eat it “. Dairy is the worst, most harmful industry we have ( next to our own industry of making things to kill each other). ....but all that said, I wouldn’t personally see an animals life given in vain or wasted. Life, all life is to precious to waste

From fluffy chick to table took around 6/7moths and tasted like chicken but your right, such a luxury, my dad did a deal with another business man to supply us a capon and a brace of pheasants, the other guy got his car serviced!!

How big is the chicken you are buying if a family of 4 only eats half a breast each?

I know people here are saying "oh and some can't afford chicken", but honestly, after what I read on MN I think meat is simply too cheap🤷🏻 People are throwing parts away, thinking about throwing it away because it's 5 minutes after use by date and so on.
Meat needs to be made more expensive so people treat it right. Chicken can be bought for about 3 in asda or aldi, that's less than toblerone fgs.

Wow - I'm amazed people still throw away perfectly good food! Anyway, at least you admit you know you shouldn't. If you boil it down then it will all fall off the bones and you don't have to faff around poking it. Or sometimes I get some washing up gloves on (clean ones) and have a right old good pick around and get it all off. Then divide it into bits to use in the next few days in curry/casserole/stir fry/fajita/paella/sandwiches, and freeze another pile to use another time. Enjoy lots and lots of meals out of that one beast!

I refer to the comments about if this is a troll etc...

People need tos tart putting wight of chicken they are talking about in their posts because my fat arse is being pretty ashamed😂

I don't buy whole chicken very often for that very reason OP, because all me and DD would eat would be the chicken breast. But I do cook one occasionally when I know I will be seeing my parents the following day and I take what's left to them.

They eat the legs and any remaining meat that they can, then Mum boils up the carcass to make soup.

That way, none of it goes to waste and we get to eat proper roast chicken occasionally instead of just buying chicken breasts.

Soup pie!!! All the chicken left overs with some peas and any other veg. A tin of condensed chicken soup all in an oven dish with puff pastry on top. My kids and hubby love it!!!

get a dog they will help you finish it lol mine does we only throw the bones away

It amazes me that people do this!!! Why bother with a chicken if you only want breast? What to do with the rest? Almost anything!! Curry, pasta, sandwiches, risotto, paella, stir fry.
And please don't start buying crowns. It just means that the rest of the chicken goes to waste earlier in the process.

You must have money to burn and no conscience or consideration of the environment. What are you teaching your kids?!

Is that shaming enough?

And please don't start buying crowns. It just means that the rest of the chicken goes to waste earlier in the process.

No it doesn't? The legs are sold separately aor used in another products. It makes absolutely no business sense to throw them when they are actually quite popular especially when portioned and sold in packs

Your mad, the breasts have the least flavour. You can easily make a chicken salad.

I personally find the taste of reheated chicken revolting so always have it cold but each to their own.

Shred and mix with bbq sauce for tacos, wraps or in burger buns, like pulled pork.

We strip ours to the bone and i usually make soup or stock with the bones. What a terrible waste of a little life by throwing half of it away!

@Wallyandasnog

Soup pie!!! All the chicken left overs with some peas and any other veg. A tin of condensed chicken soup all in an oven dish with puff pastry on top. My kids and hubby love it!!!

Or crushed up crisps and grated cheese on top then back in the oven to brown.

candlemasbells
Please don’t ‘let the cat/or dog loose on the carcass’ of a chicken! That’s a sure fire way to be visiting the vets with broken chicken bones damaging your cat or dogs innards!
Are you not a pet owner?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything so reckless!

The extravagance and waste is depressing.
If you can’t be bothered to even make stock or whatever, why not just give it to a friend with a dog or leave it out for foxes.
It all seems so mean-spirited.

@MondeoFan

We have the breasts then rest to the dog not on the bone though for him

Yep and the environmental impact of dogs is huge, then you get shit like this.

Sorry Mondeo to pick on you as loads of other posts in the same vein, but honestly this is so extraordinarily wasteful it is beyond comprehension.