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!

You shouldn't throw away something that could feed your family for another 4 days... 😂😂😂

Seriously though OP, as per above, boil up the carcas with onion (you don’t actually have to chop it,) stick of celery, clove of garlic, a carrot, some whole peppercorns, a litre of water and you have stock in an hour or so.

Then use it for soup or risotto with any other ingredients, doesn’t need to be the leftover chicken.

Leftover chicken can go into sandwiches/a chicken pie.

I have roast chicken on a Sunday and there are only two of us, so we eat the breast, then I make stock with the carcas, we always end up with leftover gravy so I make the meat into a chicken pie using the gravy instead of stock and then I use the stock for a risotto or similar later in the week.

Strip the meat left over off the carcass, stick it in the fridge, snack on it for the next two days!!!

I make risotto or give it to the dog. He absolutely loves chicken.

Try stripping the joint with kitchen tongs while still hot, it's much easier.

So, no one in your house likes drumstick? Pull the other one. (Pun intended).

I totally get everyone saying just buy the breasts, to be honest I buy a whole chicken with the intention of using more than just the breasts but just never get around to it!
I dont mind the leg meat at all but there's enough for me with the breast so I just end up having breast meat. Thanks for the suggestions keep them coming!

Plus I know it will sound mad but the meat from a whole chicken seems to taste so much better than the prepackaged breasts?

Strip the chicken and make chicken and Mayo sandwiches for everyone for their Monday lunch.

Strip it
Pull every bit of wings, thighs, underneath etc.
Easiest thing is fry onion and garlic, add chicken and tin of tomatoes, dollop of ketchup, salt and pepper.. Cook down.... Voila pasta sauce, stir in cooked pasta, put in oven proof dish, top with breadcrumbs (I use the crusts no one will eat).
Slosh over olive oil and bake
Cheap, easy, feeds four easily

Buy an organic chicken, it’s so expensive that you won’t dare waste it.

Start by buying a better-quality bird which doesn’t cost less than a fiver and you will think twice about throwing half of it away. Better-kept chickens have stronger bones which make better stock.

Sandwiches, risotto, chopped up in Mac and cheese.

And on Friday you talked about a roast chicken

Some of these chickens might be the size of ostrich’s.

In our house, there’s just dh and I, plus baby. Chicken breasts all eaten in one meal. Legs and odd bits in another meal. Plus stock.
2 meals max. The cat might get the odd scrap.

If you don't want the meat feed it to a dog or fox. My dogs love roast chicken and my mum feeds leftovers to her fox who visits every evening.

Noo there are so many thing you can make! Jerk season the chicken legs. Make saturday soup or Pho Ga. You can freeze the bones and use them to make a big stock/bone broth when you have enough.
Totally agree with others, you shouldn't be buying it if you'll just waste it.

Cold meat is a no go, I'm not keen on it cold and nobody else would eat it cold either unfortunately so cant be used for pack ups etc 🙄

@Cissyandflora

And on Friday you talked about a roast chicken

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Why do you keep buying a chicken if you just chuck half of it out?
This doesnt sound really.

You can make soups, sandwiches, jambalaya, story fry, curry, chicken pie, fajitas, anything with chicken!

I really hope you havent let your kids see you chuck it away because you're just teaching them to be wasteful.

Also no idea why, between 4 of you, you only need 2 chicken breasts between you.

Whatever about waste, but unless you're a vegetarian it's a bit daft being righteous about the fact the animal was slaughtered so therefore you must consume every inch of it. I don't think the chicken cares how much of it's carcass gets used up. It's no less disrespectful to eat all of it. Slaughter is slaughter.

I make a soup also using the water I steamed the vegetables with and I also save any leftover veg and just blend it all

Chicken pie
Nigella's Thai chicken noodle soup.
Sandwiches
freeze it

I just couldn't bring myself to throw it away.

I know there is the mumsnet chicken " joke" but honestly it can last 2 days.

Plus I know it will sound mad but the meat from a whole chicken seems to taste so much better than the prepackaged breasts?

Partly because it’s on the bone, partly because of the fat, partly because breast fillets have water added to plump them up. If you buy supremes from a decent butcher you will notice a difference.

Its really wasteful to throw it away. Just cook chicken breasts wrapped in bacon but I don’t know how people are getting so many meals out of one chicken. Do you just have one slice of breast meat with the roast? Each person has either a leg or breast. Best to eat the legs with the roast. Remaining breast meat for sandwiches and strip the carcass for the cat. If you’ve got a cat and don’t like stripping the carcass just let the cat loose on it.

Just buy chicken breasts instead of a whole chicken .

I remember realising this is what MIL does and I stood there in her kitchen, stripped the chicken of all the dark meat, wrapped it up and bought it home. (I mean, I wasn’t surprised, Dh thought I was mad when he first saw me strip the chicken, but has grown used to it now and eats the leftovers on sandwiches unless I’m using them for Monday tea). The dark meat is the best bit! Two oysters on a chicken, 2 dc and I fight over them.

It must be one of the famous mn chickens though. There is no way that two Breasts would be enough for my —greedy— lot.