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?

1kg between 4 is tight. 1kg between 5 is abysmal. Just buy two chickens so people can enjoy their Christmas dinner properly.

Are you being serious? A one kg chicken is just over 2lb - that's verging on microscopic.
You haven't actually said anything about your family of four that is apparently satiated by a sparrow sized chicken. Are you actually a family of small cats?

1kg? I am amazed that that is enough for four people.

I got tired of trying to find a huge free-range chicken and now buy two smaller ones from the supermarket – each weighs about 2kg, and that's plenty for five of us with leftovers. But one alone (which is twice the size of yours) would barely be enough for five of us, even though I don't have loads and neither does DS1. Certainly nothing left over.

If it's about the ££ can you buy a bigger frozen bird? Usually comes up cheaper. I would say the minimum for five people is 2kg and better if 3kg tbh.

I guess......some 60 years ago before they were illegal, we used to have one at christmas because then they were way cheaper than a turkey.

As long as all your guests like it too

They're not roasted on the day!

They're roasted, chilled and packaged elsewhere, then sent to the supermarkets pre-cooked and bagged.

By the way, I am on my own tomorrow and I have decided to go to Sainsbury's and buy a roast in the bag (not pre-roast! I will roast it) chicken, and make a roast meal with the various little left over pigs in blankets, Yorkshire's etc I have knocking around in the freezer, and glaze the sorry looking carrots that are languishing in the vegetable tray in my fridge, all for myself and myself alone! This thread is making me hungry!

If you like I will report back on how many imaginary people I think I could feed with it at Christmas......

We normally get a 2kg chicken between 4 of us, then there's enough breast meat for everyone, and the legs and wings are used in a curry or stirfry. I guess if you have two people who genuinely prefer the leg, and you’ll have loads of pigs in blankets and other stuff it might be fine but I'd definitely go bigger, it's not like chickens are expensive.

A tiny pre-cooked chicken between 5, and on Christmas day!!

Each to their own, but if you don't roast a chicken how will you make gravy OP?

Whilst I am not a fan of the usual gluttony that is associated with the festive season, this sounds all too Christmas Carol for me.

I am pretty sure some supermarkets have a rotisserie thing and they roast them and bag them and then you buy them pretty soon afterwards?

I admit I could have been misled in this regard.....

They do, but this isn't one of those!

If get a 2.5kg one so you’ve plenty of sandwich fillings for Boxing Day.
(Or forget about the chicken altogether and just have P in B & stuffing & all the trimmings!)

If get a 2.5kg one so you’ve plenty of sandwich fillings for Boxing Day.
(Or forget about the chicken altogether and just have P in B & stuffing & all the trimmings!)

The darker meat on a chicken is tastier and more succulent than the breast meat. I don’t understand the love for chicken breast.

Oh I have read the thread now and I have to agree, tho I am also a buyer of pre-roasted chicken (for sandwiches or salads for example) I would not want to bring that out of the oven on Christmas Day, sorry @ChickenChristmasDinner

Seriously, just buy a bigger one. I mean a raw chicken which you then cook. If the 1kg pre-cooked one is enough for four of you, a 2kg one will be fine for five I guess. High meat to bone ratio too.

That pre-cooked one is £6.50 as well! a 2kg free range (uncooked) one is only about that.

So what? If that’s what she and her family want to eat then so be it.

It’s too tight. We’ve been getting the 1.5kg roast in a bag chickens with stuffing from Sainsbury’s and they’ve been getting smaller over time. The last one we had only did one big roast for 4 of us- one of whom was a child who eats barely anything. Last year the same chicken would have done us another meal of leftovers so it’s been very noticeable that the chicken has got much smaller.

I think it’s weird to divide a cooked chicken as breast each for 2 and leg for 2! I’d slice both and everyone have a mix. Wouldn’t cook such a small bird though, especially not for Christmas.

How can a 1.5kg chicken get smaller? It’s 1.5kg.

Literally says 'serves 5' on that link..

With pigs in blankets, stuffing etc it's probably enough food. Sad times if there's no Boxing Day leftovers though, they're the best bit imo!

OP, stop being so wasteful. Just buy a packet of these (one slice each, save the rest for another day)

I don't like dark meat at all so prefer the breast. Weird I know

Chemical castration I believe, and the young birds come from France. There are UK farms which advertise cockerels but this isn't one.

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It is, the birds come from France I believe. There are also cockerels available from some UK farms.