Any simple and cheap recipe ideas or ways to save with groceries appreciated

D924

I have started buying chicken thighs with bone in as it's marginally cheaper than buying fillets, even accounting for waste.

However filleting them is wasteful and yields only 600g of usable chicken from 1000g of raw material, of which probably 100g is meat that could not be removed from the bones.

I considered making bone broth as a way to reclaim this but with the energy price now it is not economically viable to cook anything for a long time.

Any thoughts on how to reclaim the wasted chicken with a minimal energy cost?

RAS

If you roast or stew them first, the meat comes away from the bone easily. Then use the hot meat. Stewing may also give you some broth.

Does depend what recipes you want to make?

Floss

Chicken thighs can be bought with or without bones - either way they are cheaper per Kg and have more flavour than chicken breasts.

bouicca21

Cook the bones some veg and water in a slow cooker.

Longwalker

bouicca21 said:

Cook the bones some veg and water in a slow cooker.

I just logged in to say this

I only buy thighs £2.89 a kilo from Lidl and theres enough meat removed for 4 very hearty portions  of curry or whatever ( I use them for curry )

I use a very sharp small knife but still manage to leave a lot of meat, esp on the lidl ones because of the way they were originally butchered ( they arent the neatest) 

Bag and freeze. After a couple of months theres loads - I think its eight meaty bones a batch, thats when they hit the slow cooker with fine diced celery, carrot and onion, stock cube and a couple of pints of water., low overnight, then when cool, skim off the fat, use my fingers to pick over the bones of the meat, discarding the gristle, bring back to the boil in a sauce pan , add small dumplings or noodles and there you go, a good hearty soup. I do tend to give the veg a quick blitz, just a wee one so it thickens the soup.

The skins go out for the birds