To make a chicken last a week?

[Phobe1985]

This, really.

We got a big bird from M&S reduced last Sunday , did us a roast dinner then a curry on the Monday and a stir fry on the Tuesday with a leftover portion of each for the freezer - if we’d had space I’d have saved the carcass and pressure cooked for stock and then after six months of it being unused chuck it away. Oh and the dog had a load of grisly bits and skin and had the shits for two days

My cat was sick today. I wonder if it was the chicken .

It depends how much meat you use a portion. If I do a roast then I don't have much left as each person has a thigh, breast etc but can manage to do a stir-fry or risotto with leftover meat the next day.
If I poach the chicken and shred the all the chicken meat up I can make it last 4 days - eg. chicken pho noodle soup 2 days, chicken risotto, chicken for sandwiches, chicken salad.

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Put it with this and you'll be full for a year.

I bought the last chicken in the butcher's one Christmas Eve. I had to wait for payday and to finish work, so beggars couldn't be choosers when it was down to either a fucking Pterodactyl for a fiver or half a cheese toastie between 2 until Boxing Day.

I swear we were still trying to think of new ways to have chicken on January 15th. Even the cats refused point blank to eat it and would throw themselves on the floor in despair in front of the bowls when there was yet more bloody chicken instead of a tin of vaguely meat related blobs.

It was the Magic Porridge Pot of Avian Roasts.

Let's think about this logically.

Chickens are closely related to velociraptors.
Velociraptors are dinosaurs
Therefore, you can use a brontosauras to feed your family for a week.

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This thread is gold
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Do you want dinner for a week, 4 months or a year?

Easy 1/5 of the chicken breast and a wing on Mon/Tuesday. The other 1/5 of Breast and a leg on Wed/Thursday. Last 1/5th and skin on Friday. Boil carcass and bones for soup on Sat/Sun.

That's how MN does it. 😂

3 adults at my house and I can make a chicken last 3 meals. 4 if it's an xl.

Roast dinner with tons of veg. chicken and sweetcorn soup using the bone stock (ha!) and chicken and butternut squash curry . If it's an xl then I can stretch to a batch of sandwiches for my DHs packed lunch.

How big are these chickens!?! Mine can last a day or two max. I have a family of four, all adults.

No-ones making a chicken last a week.

It's just a tiresome and very boring 'joke' trotted out any time anyone suggests you might get more than one meal out of a chicken.

Which predates MN by millenia BTW. From a time before factory farming when people didn't expect to eat great piles of meat on a daily basis because it was too expensive for most people.

We eat a large chicken in one meal 2 adults

Mine are from Lidl. A normal average chicken but occasionally an xl . We don't have huge amounts of meat, a roast dinner for 3 would be a leg and a breast shredded. Then every scrap of meat pulled off that carcass. A bit for soup, you don't need a lot as the flavour is from the broth. Then the rest for curry. An xl chicken will also fill 4 slices of bread for my DHs packed lunch.

Had a cooked chicken yesterday.

Made with it.

Three adult dinners and two lots of sandwiches for dd packed lunch. One today and one for Tomorrow.

One toddler dinner

Left overs for the pets. They had far too much

I've seen mention of the special pate thread, anyone got a link as I found that supremely funny?

If you eat it raw then you’ll get sick and won’t need to eat for a week. Job done.

@glasshole you are amazing!

We always get three meals out of a chicken. Roast, curry & stir fry. 1.8kg chicken 2 adults and 3 children, 2 of whom barely eat any meat.
My parents and grandparents would always make a few meals out of a chicken too.

Definitely a week

Roast it the first day and just look at it whilst eating something else

Second day serve ‘picky tea’ for the kids that has ‘bits’ including naice ham but no chicken. They can eat this in front of the telly as ‘a special treat’.

Third day you can smell it (bulked up with lentils) (other dried pulses are available)

Fourth day you do yellow label aisle blitz where there will be amazing bargains that feed your family for so many days you don’t need the chicken and especially if you have been and bought a 90kg bag of rice as it’s cheaper like that even paying extra mortgage for an additional kitchen to store it in.

Fourth day fajitas. Obviously

Fifth day something including pesto. Obviously. (Extra points if you made it from something Green you picked yourself like nettles from the local rec)

Sixth day stock from the carcass that is greasy and revolting but has the taste of pure humble brag so you will enjoy it anyway.

Seventh day the chicken will rise again and you can repeat the whole process.

I don't often buy a whole chicken. I used make 250g of thigh fillets last two of us a minimum of three days when we had little money. (Find the) chicken curry, mostly onion carrot, and sweet potato.

Only a week? This is why we have an obesity crisis. We've lost sight of healthy portion sizes.

I can make a chicken last a month by turning it into stock which then sits in the fridge until it is mouldy enough to be thrown away. So There.