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!

@Isthisreallylife

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!

Everyone I know was giving chicken bones to dods and cats. Including us. What we didn't give were "hollow" bones from duck, goose or flying birds.

I would never let a dog eat it but we had a beautiful tabby Tom cat who used to frequently steal the chicken carcass from wherever it was hidden to cool. He never had any trouble digesting it. Tragically he was poisoned with antifreeze a neighbour had left out, he was 15.
He also used to lick the bbq grill when it was still hot. Someone had to stand on guard for 10 mins to allow it to cool. I think of him whenever we have a chicken carcass.

To be fair the chicken in the wild would spend its entire life looking for food else starve to death and waiting to be eaten alive by another creature. We wouldn’t allow that with livestock or domesticated animals

However animal, vegetable or mineral, there no excuse for waste - it’s all use of the earths resources. I think the Op has got the message.

Mostly I’m still confused by someone that doesn’t like cold chicken, Nicer than warm I think.

Some of the comments on here! Where are you all buying these huge chickens that do all these meals? It's like a bloody competition on who can make it last the longest and create the most meals!

I don’t like leg or thigh meat. I’d only buy a crown or chicken breasts. Very little or no waste then.

MiL in the other hand will be boiling the bones to make stock. She wont waste anything...generational thing.

Leftover pie
Put leftover veg and chicken in a pie dish, pour over a little gravy, top with mash and sprinkle with cheese. Bake till hot and yummy yummy.

Straight after the meal you need to strip the rest of the meat into a bowl - then you are more likely to use it for sandwiches, rissotto or whatever on the monday.

Don't just dump the carcass in the fridge.

Some of the comments on here! Where are you all buying these huge chickens that do all these meals? It's like a bloody competition on who can make it last the longest and create the most meals!

Are you new here? 😆

It’s not complex is it.

We are two mid 30s, a 5 year old and a 1 year old.

Medium chicken for roast dinner.

Leftovers for chicken fried rice.

Strip the carcass after you’ve eaten. It’s MUCH easier to get the neat off when it’s still warm than cold out the fridge.

I don’t do anything fancy with it. I pick it off and put it into a tub to use for sandwiches.

@fluffyhood, you need to buy "The thrifty cookbook" by Kate Colquhoun. It revolutionised my approach in the kitchen and will make you think differently about everything leftover.

My preference is:

Roast chicken
Chicken pie
Chicken strips in stir-fried rice, then
Chicken noodle soup, using the carcass (takes no time at all in the instapot).

I do exactly the same as you and I do because as you have said the meat tastes better on a whole roast chicken than just pre packaged breasts. No one likes the leg meat in our house.

I use the breasts only. I then strip the rest down and give it to my daughter's dogs.

I've not read all the posts so maybe someone has already suggested these already.

My friend makes chicken nuggets from the cooked chicken. She makes chicken meat balls after mincing the meat. She freezes them in batches. She also does garlic chicken burgers and chicken and mushroom pancakes.

She's very much into batch cooking and even though everyone in her family prefers breast meat - they eat just about all her chicken meals. They won't have her chicken and pea risotto - maybe because the meat pieces are bigger and less processed.

We have a roast chicken then all the leftover meat gets removed and is made into a yummy Tikka Masala or Korma the following day 😊

You have a dog and cats and are throwing meat away? They can eat it over several days. Am I missing something?

MN chickens are the stuff of legend.

Here 1 roast chicken is stripped bare in one meal.

2 adults and 2 teens (so really 4 adults now) and the cat gets the wobbly gross bits.

We Have a roast a chicken every week.
Strip carcass, then Boil up bones with onion Etc to make stock to be used in:
Thai Chicken Curry
Chicken fricassee
Chicken and Sweetcorn baked potato filling
Chicken avocado and tomato salad
Chicken risotto
Creamy Chicken Pasta bake
Oh the possibility are endless.

@oliphanto unfortunately I seem to have a dog and a cat that if I give fresh meat to then they suddenly think that's what they should be having every meal and will go on strike from eating their own food, more so the dog.
It's taken a long time to get my dog to eat her own food without fuss so if I gave her too much chicken she would flatly refuse her dog food. I give them both a small portion of it most weeks but that's all.

If you have younger children and eat smallish portions of meat, the MN chicken thing isn’t so ridiculous.

I have a 6 year old and a 2 year old. We easily get a roast, then curry/risotto/stir fry type meal, then soup out of a regular sized chicken.

Increase the dogs once a week portion? Is the dog a teacup Yorkie type that can’t eat half a chicken all at once? There’s probably chicken in your dog food you know. Shame to put the real stuff in the bin and buy dog food... am still lost.

Wow this is such a terrible waste!
Chicken casserole
Chicken sandwiches
Chicken pie
Chicken and ham/leek/mushroom pie
Chicken soup
Chicken and pasta
Chicken and cous cous
And if there’s not much chicken! Stock!!!!

I hear you, my kids only eat the breast and im veggie, so it gets binned or given to the cats!

More money than sense, or morality! Sounds a bit extreme, but the chicken has given its life so you can just chuck it away. You asked to be shamed. You should be ashamed.
Roast chick one day, coronation chick with baked potato another, boil up carcass for stock with bay leaf, carrot, onion, pepper for soup or to make a white sauce type thing with added meat, possibly added to pie. If you don’t use within a couple of days, freeze the stock (or meat that you’ve stripped off the bone). I personally don’t like dismantling a carcass, but put all plate scrapings and bones in large pot as I’m clearing up after lunch, and then slowly simmer while dishwasher is on. All ‘dealt with’ by the evening, either portioned outof frozen.