I am going to Mumsnet the fuck out of this chicken!

[TheCarpenter]

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1.546kg chicken

2 Adults
1 Teen that eats like an adult.

I am going to try for:

Chicken Dinner
Chicken and Veg Pie
Sandwiches
Soup

Chicken and veg pie will have peas and carrots.
Sandwiches will be bits mixed with mayo and maybe sweetcorn to bulk.

Any other ideas?

I love this thread. Off to purchase a chicken and a gammon after work.

My gammon was enormous, to be fair, but it did us for many meals. There's still a couple of slices left in the fridge but I'm sick to the back teeth of it, so we had salmon last night instead.

Larger than usual, I think it cost me £4.50 in morrisons.

I'm mning a gammon and a chicken this week, I have photos, though we don't like repeat meals too much so it may take a while to use it all, I have a huge freezer to store everything.
So far, we have had a sandwich each from the gammon and I've made 6 portions of homemade baked beans from half the stock, I also have a roast, schnitzels and pea and ham soup planned, which then leaves me a container of shreds and the skin/fat.
I'll do the first chicken dish tomorrow, Thai red chicken and sweet potato curry, also planning chicken egg foo yung, risotto, matzo ball soup, and at least one other dish.

I do a sort of laksa with shreds,.

Skinny version

Stock and water
Rice noodles
Green veg chopped up small eg broccoli, peas, pakchoi
Onions
Garlic
Chillies
Shreds

Put all the ingredients save green veg, noodles and shreds into pan and boil until making spicy smelling stock. When coming to serve, add rest, boil for as long as needed, serve.

Full fat version

Use tortellini instead of rice noodles

Italian version
As above in ff but omit chillies and replace with marjoram, oregano and thyme.

Modern - yum. I add soy sauce and loads of ginger to that and call it ramen. Nothing like the proper stuff I'm sure but it is one of my very favourite meals.

Sweetcorn, thinly sliced carrot and, oddly, lettuce work well too. Swap onion for spring onions and it cooks even quicker.

This is another lovely recipe that could be used as inspiration for using up shreds of chicken, to serve on pasta etc.
www.nigella.com/recipes/view/spring-chicken

Yup to soy sauce , Ds hates ginger,( and sweetcorn) yup to carrots, and the ff version is actually egg noodles not tortellini..

Have been living off wasabi's spicy chicken version recently as have been feeling sick and hot and spicy stays down. Wonderful stuff.

DS learned to make the Italian version, pasta and all. Truly wonderful,

Threads like this utterly shame me

We are two adults and one teenage boy. One chicken would do one roast then remaining meat and stock would be used for chicken and, say, broccoli risotto. Risotto is nicer with home made stock

Well I have mnetted my chicken to fuck.
I've made Thai red chicken, sweet potato and peanut curry tonight, which will be served with sweet and sour pineapple and noodles.
Sunday there'll be boneless buffalo wings with blue cheese mayo, chips and pickles.
Monday is chicken foo yung, stir fried tofu and green beans in oyster sauce.

I have three tubs of stock, enough for matzo ball soup, cock a leekie soup and risotto, the first two will have chunks of meat, the third the scrappy bits and I'll deep fry the skin as a garnish.

Chicken meal number one, there's enough for two portions of this each which we will have since it's greedy Friday

I tried to change back to my OP name but apparently I need letters in it.
Any way. I Mumsnetted a Gammon. One of the half moon ones. Was posting about it on another thread and thought I'd c&p it here too.

We get 3 meals for 3 out of one of those half moon ones. Use the stock to make pease pudding. The use the stock again for soup!.

You need a gammon. A bag of split yellow peas. A bag of lentils. Bread rolls. White potatoes.

Boil your gammon.
Use the water to make pease pudding.
Have some gammon with pease pudding and boiled potatoes.
(That was our tea last night)

I then added lentils to the stock and left in the slow cooker for 6 hours. Blended for soup. Served today for lunch with a huge dollop of pease pudding in. Very filling and we didn't have bread.

Tonight we'll have ham and pease pudding rolls.

Tomorrow DH and I will have the last of the soup for lunch.

I made gammon and blue cheese pasta last night, with gammon crackling, just one more gammon meal to go, and three more chicken.
I have all the photos saved for when everything is used

Reckon you could do a whole week of mains on one chicken and one gammon? I say it can be done.

Absolutely.

If you put potatoes IN your pie mix, what do you serve it with? I'd never put spuds in the mix

I made chicken stock once, planned on making a delicious chicken soup. Mmmm
boiled the carcass, added seasoning, simmered for ages and then put the whole thing through the colander.

Er yeah so just a basket of bones and tiny shreds of chicken then.

I don't serve potatoes with pie, they might be in the mix, depending on what pie it is.

What do you serve it with brillo ?

If you put potatoes IN your pie mix, what do you serve it with?

Veg. Usually have at least peas and carrots in the pie, but always room for broccoli and cauliflower!

I need to take photos. I swear we're not living on bones and shreds of chicken! Have all had our gammon rolls now.

I have a chicken this week so we're having a roast, thai curry, soup and something else, maybe pie.

Ah hmm see I was brought up on the whole pie, spuds, veg combo. My dh would be aghast to not have boiled spud/mash/chips
taken my dd years to almost understand that fish fingers, sausages and carrots is not an acceptable combo. Fish fingers OR sausages with some sort of starch and veg

You could just have the spuds on the side and a smaller pie. Works out about the same in terms of protein. I like spuds in the pie as it means more pastry which is cheap and goes down well here.

Just veg here too.
We had a savoury suet pudding earlier in the week, layered mushroom duxelle and savoury mince which had carrots and peas in, and I served it with red cabbage.

Can I have the recipe please Ihave? I'm imaging a huge dumpling, and I love dumplings.

It's probably a lazy thing too, the carbs are in the pastry so no need to make more, the odd ocassion we do have potatoes/chips too we enjoy it, but really find it too filling.

We aren't eating bones either, I could post some pics, but think it'll make more sense to post them altogether when everything has been used.
I think some people may be horrified that I have served/will be serving the skin of both meats, but we'll see

based it on this
The fillings were homemade, but from my freezer, and I used my slow cooker to steam it for around 3/4 hours.