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

[ChickenChristmasDinner]

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?

Us too!

You're serving a pre cooked chicken? And you think that's the nicest chicken you've had? Things are starting to make sense.

I just follow the cooking instructions. It says to heat it for an hour, despite already being cooked.

I have tried roasting many non-precooked chickens. However, I find that this Sainsburys precooked chicken is far more succulent and tasty.

A pre-cooked, bagged chicken from a supermarket is "succulent and tasty" and the "best chicken you've ever had"? Really?

I nothing so. I roast chicken twice that to feed 4 of us. Two are children.

I'm guessing OP is a terrible cook. Which is fine, plenty of them out there. But if your food isn't the best then you should at least make sure you're not stingy on the portions!!

You need to ask for a cookbook for Christmas @ChickenChristmasDinner

Reheated chicken is bad enough 🤮 but for guests and a special occasion is another level! Grim.

Its just sweetened with a sugar marinade OP. Its just cooked chicken with a sugary sauce.

Yes, that is correct. It takes an hour to reheat.

I knew I would be ridiculed as any post on AIBU is fair game. I promise you that I am not on a wind up!

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That is the case, but I like it!

Who are you inviting? Five sparrows? Nowhere near enough. Unless this is a tactic to make sure they don’t return next year.

I can't imagine wanting re-heated, pre-cooked chicken in a sugar marinade for Christmas, but you do you, I guess

Well we all have our own preferences don't we!

I buy a 1.5kg chicken most weeks that does DHs lunches for 4/5 days and maybe a lunch each for ds and I. It's labelled as a medium chicken. Where are you getting a 1kg chicken? Could you not just get a 2kg chicken, push the boat out? It is Christmas....

Yes, the ones that say "turkey" on the packaging.

A 1kg chicken for Christmas dinner. Ho jolly ho.

Do you not know how to cook?

Sure do! 😂

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay

Just buy a bigger one. Having leftovers for Boxing Day is pretty essential.

8oz of chicken each including bones - hahaha no way

You don't need to be a good cook to stick some oil/herbs on a chicken and put it in the oven though!

That’s the stuff of nightmares to me.

There’s just the two of us, and our cat, I just buy 3 chicken breast fillets (don’t like turkey) so there’s no leftovers, no waste. I absolutely cannot stand leftovers, have never eaten them.

I'd missed the cooked chicken you buy we got one of those as a sub once on a delivery and I thought as its mainly for sandwiches/salads it'll be fine. It really wasn't, it was dense and had an odd flavour. Just buy a decent sized chicken and roast it!

Surely you want leftovers? Not enough at all.