Which cost £3.50, for a medium one.
Roasted on Sunday, having half a breast each, gave us two meals each:
The bones were cooked in the pressure cooker to give soup and dumplings each for two snacks:
Some of the chicken went in a pastry free quiche, again, two meals each:
The remaining scraps we had as cheese and chicken on toast.
To recap, one chicken gave us main meals for 4 nights, and snacks for 3 days, not bad at all.
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Wow you stretched that chicken! The meals all sound (and look) so lovely.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I could stretch it further by making chilli, curry or spag bol.
DeleteThat chicken did good!! Your Sunday roasts look lovely.
ReplyDeleteI always like minced beef as well as that's something that can be used in loads of things too.
I don’t buy ready minced beef, too many childhood horror minces, but mince my own and it does stretch well.
DeleteI've been meaning to do a post about stretching chicken.....note to self... I would love to do a post on stretching lamb or beef but can't afford either of those nowadays!
ReplyDeleteSame here but we have decided to get a beef joint soon as a treat.
DeleteGood use of one chicken.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read your title on my sidebar 'Take One Chicken' ... my mind immediately said 'give it some corn, pick it up and give it a cuddle' ... I could no more eat a chicken than eat Suky the Pug ... lol.
We are meat eaters but it is too expensive to eat too much. Rations taught us to eat probably no more than 2oz or 3oz at a time.
DeleteWhich is a much healthier amount than most people eat. Rationing is really helping Alan look twice at his portion sizes of all foods .
DeleteImpressive, a wonderful selection of meals.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteBrilliant! How's the new mattress topper?
ReplyDeleteQuite good bit of a minor sag where it sinks into the dip in the mattress but back ache now less.
DeleteDo you think placing a thin board beneath the mattress might help?
DeleteMight do but it is actually 95% better than before.
DeleteIf I ' stretch ' a chicken I use it for two days and then have to freeze the rest as my husband threatens to start clucking!! :-)
ReplyDeleteWe often do the same.
DeleteI have cooked a chicken of a similar size. I put 4 x 200g bags of chicken in the freezer and boiled the bones like you. Once the bones were cool I stripped all the scrappy meat and made a thick chicken soup which did us twice. Once pot of stock has been frozen too. Haven't decided what will become of the 4 bags yet! I love chicken its so versatile.
ReplyDeleteI’m sure you will think of something nice to do with it.
DeleteThat's what I call a rubber chicken.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Hard workers those chickens:)
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