wOULD YOU BUY TESCO VALUE WHOLE CHICKEN OR FROZEN CHICKEN PIECES?

mumofthetwins

Hi
Youve probobly tried them now but i have used the tesco ones as i found i was spending a fortune on ready cooked ones for the kids.
I just wrap mine in some tin foil with a spray of low cal spray and cook in the oven .... my kids have never complained and say they are nicer than the ready cooked.
I do them as a quick lunch, or with mash/salad/chips/jacket pots for dinner.
I have also used them in the oven bags and they cooked nice in these to.
Lisa

mardatha

God yes - always defrost!

Absinthe_2

I used to buy for my little dog when he was alive, as he was a very fussy eater. I may have cooked before for my daughter, but would have defrosted thoroughly, and cooked for a while. There's nothing wrong with them. They're just not free-range, etc.

maman

lollipopsarah wrote: »

Please can someone tell me how to do a chicken casserole with these please, and how to get the darn skin off (!) it's one of those meals I just can't get right.
Thanks
xx

You can take the skin off after defrosting or before serving or at the table whatever you prefer.

I've got a huge casserole cooking at the moment, only a couple of drumsticks each but masses of veg. This is my recipe:

In a casserole dish on the hob, saute an onion in oil then add sliced carrots and celery until coated. Flour chicken (or not) add that and brown. Add chicken stock, rosemary, thyme, seasoning and quartered new potatoes. Put in a medium (190?) oven for about an hour. Make a paste with a good tbsp of cornflour and stir that in with a tin of butterbeans and some mushrooms. Cook for last 15 minutes.

Today I added a cupful of sliced frozen leeks too. Sometimes I do roast potatoes but I had new potatoes to use up today. I'll serve it with some greens and there'll be LO (meatless) for my lunch tomorrow.

ginger_tony

Lidls do a frozen bag of chicken breast on the bone, you get about 6 to 8 chicken breasts and they are a reasonable size and they taste lovely and are only £4.99 a bag. I usually defrost them cut he meat off the bone and cube them, I also buy a mayflower curry sauce from farmfoods for £1 which taste just like chinese takeaway sauce, add peas to pad it out and this with rice feeds my family of seven.I find it very economical and feels like youve had a takeaway.

tiredwithtwins

yep, i use them for my hungry troops too!
defrost sat night and bung in a tray with a bit of oil, s&p, cover with foil and roast in the oven whilst all the other stuff is cooking (sunday is my cooking day - i do dinners for me and oh for when we get in late from work during the week). i usually buy a dish or two of morrisons cheap range of dips (68p for 4) - has cheese and chive, raita, mexican, garlic and herb. cold chicken portions + veg sticks with some dip and crusty bread = lovely!! good healthy way of filling up growing kids! (and a greedy OH!)

Horace

I buy bags of frozen, skinless chicken breasts from Aldi. They are great, I defrost them before I cook them and will either make a casserole out of them or cook them in my remoska and serve them with veg and gravy or chips and gravy. Mum introduced me to them as when she found out how skint I actually was she gave me a food parcel and these were in there. I have since bought more packs of my own and use them a fair bit. The breasts are varying sizes and they taste just fine.

Raksha

feeding your domestic pets *just* chicken isn't a balanced diet

zippychick

ive merged this with our frozen/value chicken thread. I prefer to eat good quality chicken infrequently, rather than value chicken regularly, but that is personal choice.

OrkneyStar

lilac_lady wrote: »

I'm in the minority here because I buy chicken breasts or chicken fillets when they are on offer, rather than a whole chicken.

I dice the meat and put into several small freezer bags and use when I want to cook stirfries, curries etc.

If I was feeding a family I would buy a whole chicken but as I hate dealing with one, I'll be non MSE here and stick to chicken breasts.

I sometimes buy the whole chicken, as DH likes the non-breast meat as well, but more often than not it is the breasts we buy (best quality we can afford, sometimes free range, sometimes 'standard', rarely value or similar).
It isn't non-MSE, really, to buy a whole chicken when you won't use it/don't like it is more non-MSE imho.