Chicken

viv0147

With the first Chicken I had 4 dinners, I live alone! And a Chicken stew that provided meals for 3 day's, so main meals for 7 day's cost £2.20. The cost of each Chicken was £2.22 (8) left ra ra ra I bought the Chickens from Tesco 3 for £10 so I bought 9=£30-£10 voucher on a spend of £30=£20 to pay = £2.22 a Chicken

Soworried

viv0147 wrote: »

With the first Chicken I had 4 dinners, I live alone! And a Chicken stew that provided meals for 3 day's, so main meals for 7 day's cost £2.20. The cost of each Chicken was £2.22 (8) left ra ra ra I bought the Chickens from Tesco 3 for £10 so I bought 9=£30-£10 voucher on a spend of £30=£20 to pay = £2.22 a Chicken

Just hazarding a guess here, but you must really like chicken.
That would be like me buying 36 chickens. :eek:

viv0147

Soworried wrote: »

Just hazarding a guess here, but you must really like chicken.
That would be like me buying 36 chickens. :eek:

Lol I do quite like Chicken but the other 8 are in my freezer so I should be okay for the rest of 2012

Soworried

viv0147 wrote: »

Lol I do quite like Chicken but the other 8 are in my freezer so I should be okay for the rest of 2012

It is very versitile, I would be interested to know what you make with it all.
I normally do a roast dinner with the full chicken. 2x legs for the kids and half a breast each for me and my husband.
The other breast becomes a curry or a chicken and vegetable pie. The rest of the meat I get off it gets mixed with mayonaisse and sweetcorn for lunches. Great with a jacket potato or in a wrap with salad.
The carcass then gets turned in to chicken and noodle or chicken and vegetable soup. So in all, 8 main meals and 8 lunches. Very cheap and very nice. I do buy a larger chicken though.

Edwardia

Organic free range chicken carcass with giblets (1kg) 1.70 Abel & Cole

shopbot

stephen77 wrote: »

how many days are you wanting to be fed for?

I think chicken breast works better than chicken thigh for corination chicken as the chicken thigh may be a bit rich for suttle corination.
Though if having eg chicken & bacon. thigh would better as gives more flavour.

Not sure how many days - but looking to start making my own sandwiches rather than buying ready made.

Thanks for the other tips!

savingmonkey

I use leftover chicken from a roast in stir fries, I find it gives a better flavour than chicken breast.

I also like this rice dish - chicken nasi goreng, just googled a receipe.

http://www.itv.com/food/recipes/chicken-nasi-goreng

Other things I do with it - add to a pasta sauce, add to a basic cheese and tomato pizza with some veg