Rubber Chicken

JulieGeorgiana

Hellyboo wrote: »

It's amazing how far you can get one chicken to go! I have a friend who spends £10-£15 per DAY to feed her family of 5, and that's just the main evening meal as the kids have school dinners and they get their breakfast cereal from costco once a month. I couldn't imagine spending this much and hate to imagine how much waste she has...

One of my friends made a comment about people who spend lots of money on food... excuse me for being crude... but she said

'why spend money on expensive food, when at the end of the day it all end up in the same place.... the loo! I would rather have something to show for my money'

She spends £15 - £20 a week for herself, her boyfriend (4 days a week) and an 8 year old!!

maman

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

One of my friends made a comment about people who spend lots of money on food... excuse me for being crude... but she said

'why spend money on expensive food, when at the end of the day it all end up in the same place.... the loo! I would rather have something to show for my money'

She spends £15 - £20 a week for herself, her boyfriend (4 days a week) and an 8 year old!!

You're friend obviously works on the 'rubbish in, rubbish out' principle (and that obviously applies to all her orifices):D.

Hellyboo

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

One of my friends made a comment about people who spend lots of money on food... excuse me for being crude... but she said

'why spend money on expensive food, when at the end of the day it all end up in the same place.... the loo! I would rather have something to show for my money'

She spends £15 - £20 a week for herself, her boyfriend (4 days a week) and an 8 year old!!

I enjoy my food - and I have my figure to show for it :rotfl:

valk_scot

Two adults, a growing 9 year old that can eat more than her dad and a 14 yer old boy here. So really 4 adults when it comes to portions! I buy bigger chickens, usually the 2Kg size. Sainsbury charges £5 for one of these atm and I think they've got a far better meat-bone ratio than two small ones. One chicken breast off a 2kg chicken is bigger than my hand for example.

From that I get..(4 adult portions per meal)

Sunday...roast dinner with stuffing, Yorkshire puds, spuds and 2 veg plus a gallon or so of gravy.

Monday. Chicken curry or sweet-n-sour chicken with rice, vegetables in the sweet-n-sour or a side vegetable curry.

Tuesday. Stir fry chicken with noodles or chicken and mushroom risotto, depending on what we had on Monday.

Plus stock for two pans of soup, plus enough chicken scraps for chicken and sweetcorn sandwich fillings. The cats eat the really grotty bits of chicken. Oh, and there's usually enough gravy left to freeze and have with toad in the hole and cabbage on Friday.
It seems a lot but none of the above involve huge slabs of chicken per meal and 2kg chickens are really very big. I stretch the meat out with stuffing, have lots of veg at every meal and bulk out the plate with potatoes or noodles or rice.


Gammon? Well I bought a 1kg piece of rolled gammon from Sainsbury's Woopsies the other week (well, I got three tbh) for £1.99 and oven baked it. From that I got ..(4 adult portions per meal again)

Gammon with new potatoes, buttered cabbage and carrots.

Fried rice with egg, cubes of gammon, peas, sweetcorn, spring onion and a few prawns. (This is a main course type dish.)
And enough scraps and juice left over to make a pan of bacon, lentil & tomato soup.

(I'm glad I bought three...)

I'm less successful at stretching the same size of pieces of beef, pork and lamb, unfortunately. They don't lend themselves so well as flavourings for pasta and rice dishes and they don't make such good stock. So I tend to buy these meats less frequently unless they're on a good whoopsie.

betterlife

i normally buy a medium chicken from coop, in my family there is me, my hub and 4 kids, (9,6,4 and 2yrs) we will have a sunday roast with it, monday is normally chicken and veg soup from it and enogh for dinner day after, and wednesday would be chicken biryarni. beef joint : roast dinner, slices in gravy for another day with mash or chips, and maybe a stew, or pasties.lamb leg, roast, minced for shepards pie and curry. x

maman

valk_scot wrote: »

I'm less successful at stretching the same size of pieces of beef, pork and lamb, unfortunately. They don't lend themselves so well as flavourings for pasta and rice dishes and they don't make such good stock. So I tend to buy these meats less frequently unless they're on a good whoopsie.

Buy a shoulder of pork joint (very cheap in Asda and Sainsbury's at the moment) and google Jamie Oliver's recipe for slow roasting. It's delicious. You can buy a huge joint very cheaply. I use leftovers for sandwiches or stir-fry but I'm sure there would be other ways too.

JulieGeorgiana

Today I stretched 1 portion of chicken for an adult to feed my family of three for 2 days

I love my new Jamie Oliver multicooker (an electric pressure cooker)... I was going to cook three portions of Chicken for dinner tonight... and cook something else tomorrow!!!!

All I added was enough Veg for the three of us for 1 meal, and the same with the potatoes... added stock, onions and seasoning!

Served hot with fresh homemade bread (and made enough to freeze 3 portions of bread)!

We all commented that we haven't felt this full after a meal in ages!!

Thank you everyone x

JulieGeorgiana

Today I made Rubber Chicken! I paid £5 from the butchers and I have a family of three!

I separated it to make meals for 5 days... and was surprised at how much meat there was I managed to portion off enough for another 2 days! That's 7 meals for 3 people from one chicken!

1) Roast Chicken
2) Thai Nutty Chicken Curry x 2 Days
3) Chicken Stew x 2 Days
4) Indian Chicken Curry x 2 Days

Oh and I made stock which goes into #2 and is the basis of #3!!

My family don't feel like I am depriving them of meat either!

This is only my second Rubber Chicken, but I am so pleased I just had to share!!

Jo4

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

Today I made Rubber Chicken! I paid £5 from the butchers and I have a family of three!

I separated it to make meals for 5 days... and was surprised at how much meat there was I managed to portion off enough for another 2 days! That's 7 meals for 3 people from one chicken!

1) Roast Chicken
2) Thai Nutty Chicken Curry x 2 Days
3) Chicken Stew x 2 Days
4) Indian Chicken Curry x 2 Days

Oh and I made stock which goes into #2 and is the basis of #3!!

My family don't feel like I am depriving them of meat either!

This is only my second Rubber Chicken, but I am so pleased I just had to share!!

What weight was the chicken?

JulieGeorgiana

Jo4 wrote: »

What weight was the chicken?

it weighed 1.93kg