Comments on: Turn One Chicken into Five Meals

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:08:36 +0000

In the summers, when we don’t eat as much soup, we make the chicken stock and freeze it.

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:47:01 +0000

You could always freeze the meat if you didn’t want to eat chicken every day for a week. We wouldn’t mind, since we eat more chicken than anything else.

By: katy

katy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:11:02 +0000

Great recipes!

We do the roast chicken; then use chicken for burritos and finally tetrazini:

Cut up leftover chicken, boil a pot of pasta shapes al dente, Lightly heat up heavy cream/milk, grate cheese, cut up softened butter pieces and boil peas. Mix everything together and put in a pan except butter and cheese. Put pieces of butter on top of sauced pasta mixture and cover with cheese. Bake. Enjoy.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:09:52 +0000

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:05:55 +0000

“I sort of just wing it…”
That’s funny.

By: Modder

Modder — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:40:25 +0000

Every weekend I make a large chicken soup first by making stock using the whole, cleaned chicken and then plucking off the meat of the cooked chicken and adding it back to filtered, de-oiled stock.

After that, the sky is the limit, but I usually end up adding some type of starch (noodles, barley, rice etc) and a lot of veggies (spinach leaves, peas, corn, beans, seaweed etc). Adding some tofu or a couple of chorizo sausages stretches the meal further and in the case of the latter adds a lot of flavor.

Finally, if I want to stretch the soup (usually because I added too many veggies), I add some water but make up the flavor dilution by mixing in some miso paste.

This way I can usually get 4-5 meals for 2 people using 1 chicken. I freeze the majority of the output in portion sizes so that any week day I open the freezer I have a wide variety of chicken soups to choose from:

Chicken & noodle soup

Chicken & barley soup

Pasta e Fagioli (Chicken soup with tomato, pasta & white beans)

Chicken & spinach soup
….

By: Steve @ pfstartup

Steve @ pfstartup — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:53:42 +0000

My personal favorite chicken meal is definitely the General. Buy a bottle of General sauce, cook up a little rice with broccoli and carrots, and you’re golden.

By: saladdin

saladdin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:39:31 +0000

I have one of those “As seen on TV” rotissiere cookers. Best thing ever made since the wonder bra.

saladdin

By: VM

VM — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:20:45 +0000

This is great! More than once I have sat in the Costco parking lot and counted out my $5.41 for a rotissiere Costco chicken that fed me all week! I have to add one more meal, a baked chicken sandwich, Veganaise, salt and pepper on two slices of “Wonderful” bread (Full O’ Life Health Food Market, Buena Vista and Magnolia,Burbank), with a few chips and spicy, hot dill spears!
Yum! Yum!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:36:33 +0000

I try to avoid the fried chicken, but making it yourself is definitely healthier than buying it at a fast food chain. Great idea though to use a single chicken throughout the week and save money while you are at it.

By: Connie Brzowski

Connie Brzowski — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:46:14 +0000

Not familiar with your site but I have to conclude you’re cooking for 2?

For years, I cooked 2 chickens at a time and there were no leftovers, especially if it was fried chicken night But that was still mighty cheap eats around our place.

By: mapgirl

mapgirl — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:12:50 +0000

My take is a little different because I buy the smallest chicken I can find and my boyfriend doesn’t eat a lot of meat.

1. Roast chicken (for 2 people)
2. Chicken noodle soup (for 2-3 servings)
3. Chicken salad (for 2 lunches)
4. Chicken/macaroni & cheese (for 2 servings)

High-quality leftover meat goes to the dog as a treat.

By: Susanne

Susanne — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:26:06 +0000

My favorites using a pound of boneless, skinless thighs, which I poach, cut up and freeze in three portions.
1. chicken/ stuffing casserole
2. fajitas
3. soft tacos (add a can of black beans and taco seasoning pack)

By: John

John — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:44:01 +0000

I use recipezaar for my recipes. I just do a search for chicken dishes and look at the best rated ones. Hasn’t failed me yet.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:43:44 +0000

Here’s another article along the same vein:

http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2009/02/1-chicken-17-healthy-meals-26-bucks-no.html