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!

Strip the chicken and use it for a stir fry with noodles or rice.

Or make a simple curry sauce and drop the chicken into the sauce, serve with rice.

Having stripped chicken makes for an easy dinner.

When we have a chicken on a Sunday, I always keep the veg water, take all the meat that’s left off and then boil up the bones in the veg water, then remove the bones, add the chicken, some dried noodles, tin of sweetcorn, couple of veg stock cubes and seasoning and a dash of chilli - chicken noodle soup

Day after the roast is sandwiches and then strip the rest of the meat and make a stock with the bones which then becomes soup or amazing risotto both of which are all the better for crispy fried shredded left over chicken with salt and chilli sprinkled on top.

Thursday you looked at a picture of a roast chicken

And on Friday you talked about a roast chicken

brilliant

Honestly I did the same for years although I do make a stock with it first.
Now two of the DC eat the legs and wings.

When my parents come and we have chicken my Dad spends ages stripping the bird, I try and encourage him to take it home but he says no that's the best bits so I dutifully make something with it the following day but nobody in my house enjoys it, they aren't the best bits at all.

I always buy free range chicken too from the butchers, I've tried just using chicken breasts or supremes but you can't make decent gravy with them.

Between me and my DTDs (12) - there's nothing left of an extra large chicken. They pick the bones clean. I have no idea what to do with leftover chicken, because there never is any. I can't believe you just throw it away.

This sounds like a recipient for food poisoning!

It's a myth that reheating twice gives food poisoning. It's been heavily promoted but there is no scientific basis and contributes to unimaginable good waste. Same as the use by nonsense. Might be unpleasant for roast chicken but if it's heated to 70 to a 100 deg most organisms will die. It's the poor handling/over handling that gets food poisoning

You can't even be bothered to just shove it back in the fridge and then pull bits off to throw in an omelette or a pasta sauce?!

We usually keep ours for salads and sandwiches throughout the week but I can see you don't like cold meat... you're missing out!

My family go mental for chicken fried rice on a Monday or Tuesday with the leftovers. In fact they're always careful about leaving enough for it! So quick and easy to make

The roast chicken I did lasted me ages. breast meat with a Sunday roast then cold the next day with chips and baked beans and then chicken Mayo sandwiches for dinner and tea the next day. The rest of it I froze and had it cold dipped in tomato sauce as a snack. Once it was defrosted obviously, but you said none of you like cold meat so that's ruled those ideas out. One of my favourite meals is left over cold chicken, I make bubble and squeak out of the left over mash cabbage and sprouts and fry left over stuffing and then the bubble and squeak in a frying pan until it's brown and crispy in places. Lovely!!

When I had 3 hungry boys at home it was
Roast Chicken on Sunday
Chicken and mushroom pie on Monday
Homemade chicken and veg soup on Tuesday with homemade bread. 🙂👍🏻

Gosh, if only there was a way of searching 'recipes to make with leftover chicken'... 🤔

Chicken jambalaya (BBC Good Food recipe)

Or mix with mayo and sweet corn, and use it as a baked potato filling

Please tell me how you make the chicken fried rice?
This is one of the greatest threads ever...!!

This is actually disgustingly wasteful.

A chicken has died to end up in your bin.

You can strip the meat from the carcass, chop and freeze. You can just then defrost and use.

I use mine in a korma. I just use pataks paste pots

@Mrsbadger77

My family go mental for chicken fried rice on a Monday or Tuesday with the leftovers. In fact they're always careful about leaving enough for it! So quick and easy to make

oh yum. chicken fried rice is the tastiest.

This is nuts!

Why are you buying a chicken if you don’t actually want to eat it? Just buy something else.
I buy a chicken and use the breast to eat stuffed, wrapped or griddled. I roast the rest and use the leg meat for curry’s or Thai thrown into a sauce in 20 mins the next day.
I boil the carcass, freeze the soup and use it in risotto or gravy later on.

The weeks I can’t be arsed, just buy chicken thighs and do them with honey soy or chorizo or roasted veg.

dont you know the roolz on MN? A chicken should feed a family of 5 for at least 6 meals?

But seriously, you can use the rest of it for risotto, sandwiches and stock or soup.

We cooked a roast chicken last Saturday. We had it as a roast dinner on the Saturday, a homemade chicken and pizza on Sunday and a creamy chicken tagliatelle on Monday!

Chicken pie is my family's favourite. Fry up an onion, stir in some frozen peas, stock cube, thicken sauce with cornflour. Add chopped up left over chicken Top and bottom layer of shortcrust pastry. Bake.Easy and delicious.

@Fluffyhood

I do have a cat and a dog so they do have a little of what's left some weeks. I would choose to cook something different but 2 are fussy eaters and dont like any other roasted meat.

Some really good suggestions thank you!

And this is a serious post, believe it or not.

When we have a chicken dh and ds get a breast each, I get the legs and then every last piece is stripped off and ddog gets the rest over 2 days.

How can you throw away chicken when you have a dog 😱

My made up chicken fried rice recipe

Fry up chopped carrots, peppers, spring onions ( other random veg that needs using up) with a bit of ginger and garlic. Then add the pre-cooked and cooled rice stir fry for a good while with some soy sauce and a bit of sesame oil.
Then make a little well in your wok and scramble a couple of eggs. When they're cooked mix through the rice. Chuck in some frozen peas and your left over chicken I usually chop into small pieces. Keep stir frying until your arm gets sore and both chicken and rice are piping hot. Season to taste with more soy sauce. You could add chilli too.

Chicken pie - curry - omelette - sandwiches - salad - soup - pasta bake. I'm not saying I'm not sick of the damn thing after day 3, but I wouldn't throw it away.

I hate that animals are killed for food but I understand that people like to eat them. Many have a truly awful life and death. I hate even more if they are killed just to end up in the bin

When the DC were small I could make a chicken do 6 of us 3 meals. Roast dinner then strip the remaining meat with a sauce and rice or pasta and what was left for sandwiches for packed lunches. I hate wasting food and back then we needed to use every scrap of food as we only had one wage coming in.