AIBU to cook a 1KG chicken for 5 people at Christmas?

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Our family have voted to have chicken at Christmas this year. We normally have a 1KG chicken for 4 people. Two people have a breast and the other two have a leg each.

However, at Christmas, there will be 5 of us at the table. I was thinking that as there will be starters, sides and a pudding at the feast , then our usual 1KG chicken might stretch to 5 people?

Am I being over optimistic?

That’s what we usually do - I’m ordering little less this year as 3 of us and going away on 27th

I always prepare way too much chicken, a big one for the two of us, two when we have guests. But.....! I álways use all of the leftovers and pick every bit of meat from the bones! Great in a salad, or with pasta or on sandwiches 😋 Sometimes I make stock from the bones and the fatty bits and use that for soup or sauce! Really, there is not such a thing as "too-much-chicken" 😊

I would go for a 5kg capon, generous for the day, plus leftovers plus carcass for stock.

Scrooge come to mind 🙄

It’s the magic MN chicken

To be honest this looks shit

Why not just buy a bigger chicken? I just looked up what I normally buy and it averages 1.8kg, we’re a couple with two very small kids. I normally get one roast meal for 2.5 and then sandwiches/ kids meals out of rest.

Just saw what you’re buying. I think buy a decent free range chicken cook in oil/butter & season and you’ll be amazed at how much better it tastes. I suspect where you’ve gone wrong is buying cheap meat

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I think that 1kg would feed 2.

But given it is Xmas, perhaps you should think of Jesus. He would have been fine with a 1kg chicken for 5. Chuck in a loaf and some fishes to be on the safe side

If it feeds 4 it should feed 5. You don't need huge portions at Christmas as there are all the extra trimmings that go with it. You will still have plenty on the bones to make a nice stew afterwards.

And 5 people will be very merry on a half-bottle of plonk.
(Between them, not each.)

Its a christmas dinner. Why scrimp and eek it out? Why not just get a larger chicken? Buy it now and freeze it to avoid the christmas chicken price hikes.

Really? I'd hate to have breast meat if there was a roast chicken, I always want a chicken leg. For Christmas I always want the dark turkey meat.

Just another thought, that is a 2.2lb (1kg) chicken which will be a bit larger than a woodpigeon (or bag of sugar), we usually have a 2.2kg chicken between 4 and find that its just enough.

We’ve just this minute finished our 1.8kg chicken. My husband had quite a big portion and I had a small to medium portion. There is maybe half a breast left and a tiny bit of brown meat, so maybe enough for one reasonable sandwich tomorrow. Th OP’s guests will be starving if five of them have to share a chicken that is only just over half the size of the one that we’ve just eaten 😆😆😆

I think you are assuming that OP can cook all the extra trimmings.
I doubt that as s/he buys a ready-meal.

Ha, ha, ha leftovers for a stew. Nope, a whole 1kg chicken will likely give each person about 80g of meat each, when picked to the carcass, and every single scrap used. So a miserly portion each including carcass pickings, with nothing at all left over. No chance of a generous portion for even one person, let alone seconds or leftovers.

It must be. I walked past a 2.4kg chicken in the local supermarket this afternoon. I doubt it would feed four people so how big a 1kg chicken is I have no idea. A mouse's portion? Unless OP has no idea how much the reheat in a bag chicken she usually buys actually weighs? I used to buy cook in a bag chickens when on holiday and they never weighed less than 2kg (fed two of us with leftovers for salad next day). I must go and find this weird Sainsbury's chicken!

Your being bloody tight. Chickens are half price at sainsburys now but two and put in the freezer.

Really tight for a big Christmas meal, I would definitely buy a larger one.

Well, I've ordered a capon, too. It'll be about 3kg. There is a company, in UK, Norfolk I believe, which supplies them - in a huge box with full instructions how best to cook - so, presumably, it's not illegal. I'm getting it through my local organic butcher who knows the provenance of all the meat he supplies. And this will be for three greedy adults and a fairly greedy 6yr old. I'm hoping there'll be leftovers for cold collations and, eventually, I'll make a massive soup with the carcass.

It’s Christmas. Buy 2 chickens

I think we will sit 20 (some DC). We will have pork, turkey (probably a turkey crown) and rib of beef with roast parsnips, cauli cheese, roast and mash potatoes, pigs in blankets, roast carrots, sprouts (of course), possibly mashed swede.
It's a family effort to cook it all. Plus a variety of puddings, cheeses etc.
I think I would die rather than present guests with the sugar marinaded pre-cooked chicken OP wants to have. It's a bit sad, really.

I think this is a good wind up for sure - 1kg is an extra small chicken so your obviously doing a wind up.