how many meals do you get out of a whole chicken?

[BabyDubsEverywhere]

i seem to be wasting alot of my chicken, so any ideas after roasting is much appreciated x

two, usually

I usually make either chicken and veg pie or a chicken curry the next day. Add cashew nuts to curry if not quite enough meat. Yum.

1 meal plus leftovers for sandwiches the next day (occasionally enough to make a chicken and mushroom pie).
I'm very greedy though when it comes to chicken.

2, there are 5 of us, so a £4 chicken lasting 2 days is damn good.

Depends on both the chicken and my enthusiasm. Normally with a 1.7 - 2kg chicken we'll have a roast, leftovers in a sauce and maybe a couple of sandwiches. If I'm feeling domesticated I'll make a stock and soup too. This weekend though we had a small chicken and a big lunch, so no leftovers and I can't be arsed making stock, so just the one.

We have the breast meat as a roast dinner then use the leg meat for casserole/ chicken pie etc. We use the carcase to make a stock which then makes lovely chicken and veg soup.
That's for 2 adults and one toddler. Where are you getting a £4 chicken from?? They cost at least £6 in our Tesco. And we're oop north!

3
Roast dinner - chicken fried rice - soup with the bones.

I pay about £6/7 for a free range chicken in Lidl and get 2 meals out of it but could stretch it to 3 if needed. I poach the whole chicken in stock in the slow cooker then use the breast meat for a roast and the dark meat plus the stock for curry/stew/tagine (it's this part I could pad out more with veg or lentils if needed)

Usually 3

• Roast dinner
• Left over saucy chicken (left over chicken, tinned toms, olives, cannelini beans,half pint of stock, basil)served with rice
• Soup

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4 meals for two of us. We have the thighs as a roast, the drumsticks and wings as another meal, usually mash and peas or something, the breasts then make two meals, either some sort of stir-fry, a chicken pie, or just mixed into pasta with some veg or mixed into rice with some veg and some sort of sauce.

1. The roast and then usually chicken noodle soup. This is for 3 of us but DP eats as much as two people so more like 4 people in total.

3 - chicken curry with thighs, stir-fry with breast and soup or stock (for risotto) with bones.

are you posh spice's cook Hullygully?

Usually 3 or 4 plus a sandwich

1. Roast
2. Pie/risotto/casserole/curry/stir fry
3. As above (different to day before)
4. Soup from carcass.

It's only me and 2 toddlers though

Roast

Curry

Soup

One. I eat a breast, dh eats the other, the wings and any bits on the back & the dc eat a leg each. I put the carcass, skin & everything else, including leftover bones into a pot of water. I put in a bay leaf or 2, a celery stick, 2 carrots, an onion, some salt & peppercorns. I leave to boil, then simmer. Strain it, cool, skim off the fat and then freeze the stock in plastic pots.

I usually cook a chicken by stuffing it with lemon wedges, coarse sea salt, rosemary springs and garlic cloves (peeled but whole). I cover the chicken with more rosemary sprigs, some chicken seasoning and about 6 bacon rashers over the sprigs. It's unbelievably divine. I got the idea from a Greek family I used to board with in London. And then make gravy from previously frozen stock.

I get 4/5, but I buy the biggest chicken I can find or cook two small ones as you can't beat fresh chicken stock!

Roast dinner
Chicken sandwich (just for me at lunch)
Chicken stirfry
Use stock for soup
Use stock for risotto (and any left over chicken, but bulk out with bacon, leeks and peas)

theres 3 of us.
Get a roast and soup out of it. Then probably another 2 meals, one with cold chicken and one using the scraps to make a risotto or curry or similar.

2
-roast
-chicken risotto using leftover chicken plus bones for stock

pick off any meat.
stock from bones / skin and veg trimmings.
meat goes in curry or rissoto or soup or cumin chicken or chicken-pesto-mayo on toast.
stock goes in risotto , cumin chicken, soup, casserole etc.

I think a chuck does us 3 meals generally, maybe more if twas a big one.

made duck stock last night- from the chinesse takeaway cripsy duck carcass.

Roast with one leg, I serve it with at least three veg, potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, yorkies and bread sauce.
Another meal with other leg, often chicken and veg curry, chicken would make up a third of the content of the curry at most, served with a carb (rice or naan).
Another meal, stir fry, risotto or casserole, again a third at most, using one breast.
Ditto the other breast
Ditto the bits.
Bones for stock which I'll use to make soup.

I use Tesco Value/Asda Smartprice chicken. I've read all the bumf about chicken, and don't believe free range from a supermarket buys you a better product. nor a better treated one.

I think you need to buy a Hugh Fearnly whatsuphisarse for that, and it costs too much.

You will see that the meat is a very small part of our meal, and that's how I stretch it so far.

I'm not saying anyone else should, but you can't say a chicken doesn't go far if you eat half to yourself for one meal, same as I can't say one does go far to fill you up.

I prefer to eke it out, and use it as a flavour, rather than a filler. A trick I learned in South East Asia.

For 6 of us I do the following

1. Roast
2. Risotto or Paella
3. Soup or s/w's
4. Stock

We don't eat a huge portion of meat as, if I remember rightly, meat should be less than 2 oz per adult every other day.

We always have at least 3 portions of veg with each meal if not more. Always at least 4-5 portions of veg with a roast.

mugglewump, im like you, or at least im trying to be .. thanks for all the ideas ladies x

A lot, for 5 people.

Roast the chicken and strip off the meat. Divide into meal sized portions (about 1 - 1 1/2 cups of meat). Make some of the following:
chicken and veg pie, chicken casserole, chicken and dumplings, risotto, curry, pasta bake, creamy apple chicken, chicken tortilla pie or whatever. Make stock with bones and the veg trimmings from the other stuff to make soup which gives 2 lunches. Any little scraps of meat can be used to make savoury muffins.

I normally get 4 main meals, maybe 5 depending on what they were, out of one chicken. Then soup and muffins for lunch 2 days, as well. Like mugglewump, I don't use a lot of meat in the meals, but, then, you don't really need to. We would almost never eat a roast dinner because it would use up too much of the meat.

Clearly, we're pigs & eat too much