To feel very smug about this....

[lucyellensmum]

My FREE dinner.

Tonight we are having chicken soup, the chicken wasnt exactly free but we usually throw the carcasses away, but i have MADE STOCK . To this i will be adding carrots, french beans and spring onions, all from our garden.

UP yer BUM tesco

well done you

Ooh I love home-made soup. I also tend to feel a bit smug when it's made from leftovers. The stock from boiling a ham joint is good too. Try eating it with home-made bread for the full smug-halo effect!

Hurrah for left overs! we're having chicken pie made with sunday dinner leftovers and some home made pastry!! (A proper free range chicken - not a tesco evil £2 one...)...

it tastes a bit bland tbh, what shall i shove in it? Sorry to say that one of our chickens was an evil tesco £2 jobby and i felt really bad buying it, but we are skint!

And? That's normal.

Every Monday I make risotto from Sunday's chicken..

But I am totally spontaneous the rest of the week.

LEM, Loads of red pesto should pep it up a little. Or garlic puree and paprika.

Do you have any herbs in the garden? A load of parsley would jazz it up a treat.

rosemary is the preferred herb for chicken in my house.

sometimes if they chicken is really shity from tesco. you have no choice but to add a stock cube as they are so horribly bland

GreenElizabeth - know exactly what you mean! Realised the other week that I almost always make exactly the same food three days a week - Sunday = roast chicken, Monday = chicken salad with baked potatoes, Tuesday = chicken risotto. I always do weekly menus as it makes shopping so much easier and cheaper but had not realised I had some weird obsessive-compulsive chicken meals ritual going on .

very envious....

must be great being relatively self sufficient

You could get an Eggloo and keep your own chickens so the next one would be completely home made. You could have home made omlettes too!

ilovemydog, it is VERY relative although maybe next year i'll get it right

Jack, just keep going until the troops revolt!

feeling a little less smug now, it was pants i think it will be ok tomorrow though. And the next day

chicken stock all the way. or smash up some pasta and throw it in.