::Make and Takes has a great guest post up here on how to stretch one chicken into two delicious meals. However, reading it makes me somewhat feel like a rather lazy person as I never buy whole chickens. I know that this flies in the face of every frugal law, but after a few tries, I quickly found I'd much rather spend a little bit more money and buy chicken breasts then have to deal with de-boning a whole chicken, or worse, struggling over cutting up an entire frozen bird (Please tell me I'm not the only one with this philosophy!)
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Someone mentioned they love cooking a whole chicken because it’s like a “mini Thanksgiving dinner.” We do the same thing in our house. My husband loves it when I roast a chicken and make stuffing (the boxed kind). He will make homemade garlic mashed potatoes, and we’ll do some other kind of veggie, and it makes for a very nice, inexpensive meal.
I have been married for 32 years and have bought maybe 3 whole chickens. Just can’t do it. I think maybe I should because they are so much cheaper but know I would just end up throwing it out because it sat in freezer too long so actually a waste of money. I buy whole turkeys no problem but don’t have to cut those up the way you do chickens.
I love buying whole chickens. I buy four at a time (we are a family of 7), and we love grilling the leg quarters, then grilling the breasts for caesar salads, pasta salads, etc. Then I throw the rest in the electric roaster and make broth. Either I or my girls go through that “stuff” and we usually have enough meat for a casserole or chicken salad for the whole family. We get at least 4 meals (for seven people) not counting the broth. I can hardly bear to buy chicken breasts anymore, and I depend on the broth I make.
OH!! You HAVE to try the Indredible 30 Minute chicken recipe that Pampered Chef has!! It’s on You Tube. Just key word search “pampered chef chicken” and you should find it. It actually lets you cook the chicken in the microwave and it’s delicious!!!! I usually get 2-3 meals out of each chicken. We eat the breasts for dinner, then I’ll make some type of soup with the remnants. Sometimes I even have enough left over for fajitas another night. WOW!
I buy whole chickens all the time. I roast them up and then pull off the meat, then use the bones to make broth. It is so easy to do and the meat is much more tender! But if I can snag chicken breasts I will
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