Now, I must preface this with the fact that a chicken doesn't mean a rotisserie chicken that weighs 3 pounds or less. Other than, boneless, skinless breasts, it os about the most expensive chicken in the market. Three pounds of chicken, even at five dollars, is 1.67 a pound. Whole chickens are as low as .87 and often .99 a pound. At .87 that's almost 1/2 price. In addition, the break even point for a chicken is three pounds. As my sister pointed out, that means if you buy a 3 pound chicken, you are going to get 1.5 pounds of meat. Every increment beye drops 3 pounds gives you more meat to bone ratio. I usually opt for a 5.5 pound chicken. I can either roast ot on the oven, or I can throw it in the crockpot. The roasting tastes better, the crockpot is more efficient, gives you a good stock, and has less cholesterol.
Five dinners. Pieces of chicken stretch further than slices of a meat. You get further with sloppy joes , than you do with hambirgers. It's the stretch phenomenon .
- Chicken noodle soup, cheesey bread.
- Chicken pot pie. Fruit cup
- Shredded chicken ( dark meat) tacos. , refried beans, rice.
- Winner, chicken dinner. Roast chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, Cesear salad
- Buffalo chicken pizza. Layer. Ranch or blue cheese salad dressing.. Chicken pieces ( soak in some Tabasco sauce I you like spicy) chopped red peppers, blue cheese / and or white cheese.
Bones make chicken soup.
1/2 of a breast makes chicken pot pie, and pizza
1/2 of a breast makes roast chicken dinner.
Dark meat makes chicken shreads
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