Rubber Chicken

lynzpower

Oakhams are great there is no doubt.

I was lucky enough to get a large one on friday night, as part of the 10 meal deal.

Large oakham chicken
Packet of asparagus
2x thier fresh OJ ( we dont really drink , we have loads of wine in at the mo)
Massive ( would feed 4, we had plenty left over) Sticky toffee pudding.

Considering the chicken is worth 6.70 or whatever on its own, the rest was pure bonus.

So far out of it we had a huge chicken/ wedges/ salad/ bread dinner on friday
OH had a sandwich out of it
Weve got the legs left and a bit of breast so we will probably make Spicy empanadas for dinner and a spicy oriental style noodle soup.

janb5

I know the oakham chickens are expensive but the flavour is unbeatable and I have tried the others. Look out for various offers from time to time I like mine with lemon and wine!

Barneysmom

I went to M&S at The Fort shopping centre yesterday, and they told me that the Oakham chicken wasn't part of the tenner deal :rolleyes: So I bought it full price.

gallygirl

I only buy 'happy chickens who walked gratefully to the slaughterhouse ' - and I haven't tasted any as nice as these.

Lynzpower I too was told they weren't part of the tenner offer so you were lucky.

I buy Oakham at full price occasionally - I can usually find one in the freezer bought when they are on special offer. OH wouldn't go to till with me last time - 8 chickens and 1 pack of reduced peas

Menolly_2

Oooh yes, Gallygirl - Chicken and Mushroom Risotto! This is what happens to our "happy chicken" - roast on Sunday (we have some of the breast meat), legs cold on Monday, then the carcase is stripped and if I can't get to it right away, it goes in the freezer ready to turn into stock later. Depending on the size of the chook, some* or all of the leftover meat goes into a yummy risotto on the Wednesday (*if there is enough, DH has a chicken and ham sandwich for his lunch). Soooo for a £7.00 FR Happy Bird (usually about 1.75 - 1.8kg), we score at least 3 meals for two AND yummy stock :j .

hotcookie101

Is the M&S Oakham chicken free range? I always thought it was a slightly higher welfare than standard but still barn reared and not technically FR? This was years ago though-have they changed it? I know they used to do an Oakham gold that was FR-so is that all of it now? Would be good to know, keep avoiding the chickens in the dine 2 for £10 offers

Penelope_Penguin

Barneysmom wrote: »

That leaves what I call 'the bit' - i.e. the wings, the 'eyes, and the scraps of meat that will be leftover to use on Monday..
So I'd like to use them up but don't really know what to do with them, we don't eat curry.

Rissoles and soup I'll add this to the existing "rubber chicken" thread so that you can browse more ideas

Penny. x

fizzel81

just reading the first post a chicken for £3 now is pretty much unheard of, cheapest i could find in asda today is £3.95 i will get 4 meals from it ( i hope)

today we had a roast i used one leg, 2 wings and the underneath meat for me and the 3 kids, tomorrow a leg will make a chicken pasta bake, ive them got the 2 breasts not sure what im going to do with them yet, sometimes i like making a soup afterwards but with riseing gas/elec prices im not sure its as money saving as it used to be

grr@ riseing food costs, ivejust started working so upposed to be better off but its swallowed up in riseing costs

Barneysmom

I just ordered a fresh one from Tesco (sorry!!) for £3.00, it's on offer so I thought I'd try it.
It's going into the freezer though.

JC-P

End of the month and 5 days until pay day so I need to find 3 meals from one chicken.

Any suggestions? I have read though a few posts and like the sound of maybe a chicken noodle soup, risotto etc.

What sort of things do you cook to stretch your chicken out?