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

Chicken muffins? i have never heard of that, how do you make them? if you dont mind of course? x

cariboo i am currently a pig trying to revamp my eating habits hehe

3 - roast - pie/stirfry/salad/wraps etc - soup.
if not having soup that week stick carcass is plastic bag and bung in freezer

that's for 5 btw

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We are clearly going wrong somewhere!

I get 1. Roast chicken.

We might scrape one sandwich from the carcass if we are lucky.

I think most of you must be roasting swans by mistake

stressedHEmum - creamy apple chicken sounds yum how do you make it?

Two - roast chicken for one night, a curry with the brown meat the next day.

I should probably make stock with the carcass but I can't be arsed find the time.

Did someone say they actually make a family meal out of 1 effing leg of chicken? Are you sure you're not talking turkey?

Or is more like a Monty Pythonesque thing, along the lines of "We 'ad it tough!"

1, plus a few scrapings for lunch the next day + stock; dh is a huge eater. I'm sure when I was little we'd have on a Sunday and be eating off it for about a week. In between walking fifteen miles to school and making our own shoes out of bark of course.

one roast
one risotto (don't need huge amounts of meat for that)
few rounds of chicken butties for packed lunches.

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i cant be fucked to dick abotu boiling bones fgs

that is probably why you have the time to make yourself gorgeous

cariboo - I had to read that post 3 times. I thought initially that it was a single person saying they eat one leg at one meal and then the other leg the next day!

I get a smallish chicken - about 1.2kgs and we have a roast and then a risotto the next day using up the remaining meat plus some stock from the carcass. The rest of the stock goes in the freezer to use for risotto at other times or soup etc.

chicken stocka lways takstes like dishwater

buy a knorr stock pot and have done

1 + plus sandwiches the next day.

Then you are doing it wrong, yg.

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bones
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carrot

boil

strain
reduce

shit

Onion! [slaps head]

It was me with the one chicken leg (at least I think you're referring to my post?). To be a bit clearer, there's only two of us and it's not like I serve us half a chicken leg each and that's it till the next meal of half a grape each!

It's just we have a small amount of meat and loads of other stuff.
I'm not saying I stretch it better than anyone else, it just depends how much of it you want to eat at each meal, as to how far it will go if you get me.
You still need the same amount of food to fill you, it just doesn't need to be meat, and as we're not that bothered about meat and love veg/rice/pasta/whatever it's cheaper to do it this way.

Creamy apple chicken,

cooked, chopped chicken,
1 tin condensed chicken soup or 1/2 pint thick white sauce made with chicken stock
1/4 pint single cream
1/4 pint apple juice
pinch tarragon
little bit garlic
salt and pepper
1 onion, chopped
1/2lb mushrooms, sliced
oil.

soften the mushrooms and onions in a little oil. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the chicken and mix well. Heat through, stirring often. Put the chicken in an oven dish, pour over the sauce and mix. Bake at 180 for about 20-30 minutes until hot and bubbly. You can add other veg to this as well. Sometimes I add carrots or some frozen mixed veg with the onions and mushrooms. You just have to cook them for a little longer.

Chicken muffins.

Just make a plain muffin base with only a very little sugar and a little less oil (if you are using vegetables). THen use this to make whatever kind of savoury muffins you like. My kids like cheese and courgette ones in the summer (add a handful of grated cheese and a grated courgette), hotdog and sweetcorn ones, ham and cheese, chicken and sweetcorn or chopped broccoli. I quite like grated carrot and beetroot or chopped sundried tomato and basil. Pour the mix into muffin cups and bake as normal.

I agree with mugglewump. I can easily feed my 5 (19, 17, 13, 10 and 7) with one chicken leg, although, I don't serve the meat as a separate thing on their plates, it always gets made into something. You don't really need that much meat in your diet, as long as you get enough protein over all. Meat in here is usually more of a flavouring than a main even, iyswim

thanks for that x

If you're feeding 5 people with one chicken leg, why bother at all? Seems pretty pointless to me.

It's not pointless. 1 decent breast or leg is plenty for making rissoto/pasta bake/pie or whatever. The chicken is used for flavouring and as a secondary source of protein. The same goes, really, for most of the meat that I cook. Yesterday, I made bacon and egg flan with 3 rashers of bacon chopped up into it, more than enough for a good flavour, the rest of the packet will get made into a bean, bacon and tomato cobbler tomorrow. The children like meat, but we can't afford for them to eat a lot of it, and certainly not for them to eat a whole chicken at once. This way, they get the flavour and plenty nutrition, while keeping the cost down. Everyone is happy. I'm vegetarian and haven't eaten meat for 30 years, so I realise that it isn't that important to have large amounts of meat in your diet, and we all eat meat free several times a week, sometimes more often.

There are many cultures in the world where meat is used in this way and, actually, this was how it was done during the years of rationing in this country. I have recipes from wartime, for making beef flavoured stew for the whole family using 4oz of beef. The beef flavour is good because of the long cooking and my children are quite happy to eat it. In fact, if they were to be given a meal where the main component was meat, they would actually be quite shocked.