Saturday, October 18, 2014

Chicken - Chicken

Fry’s Grocery store had whole chickens on sale for 88 cents a pound …. haven’t seen that price in years.  Unfortunately, all the birds were large, 5-7 pounds each.  Really roasters and not fryers.  So we bought a five pounder and had the butcher cut it in half for us.

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Jim barbecued one half which we enjoyed for dinner that night.

 

 

 

Then I cut off the breast meat for a separate meal and stewed the rest of the half in the slow cooker.  I shredded the meat, cooked up some potatoes, carrots and peas, made gravy from the chicken broth and turned it all into a chicken pot pie with biscuits on top.  Jim said it was one of my best meals.

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I’m going to make chicken schnitzel from the breast cutlets for a third meal from that one chicken.  So for $4.40 for the chicken we will get three meals …. not bad.

Remember, you are loved.

6 comments:

  1. Wow...That comes to less than $.73 per meal per person...not bad at all! Dinner looks good!

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  2. Yum!! We will be in Yuma for a few days in mid-November so hope to meet up! Ann

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  3. it's why we rarely eat out. . .gourmet meals at home for a mere fraction of the price. . .wonderful!

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  4. Janice - we've cut way down in our going out to eat. Now it is only once a week or maybe a lunch cause we are away from home. Less expensive and healthier for sure. Makes it easier for me to stay away from red meat as well. Plus Jim is a pretty darn good cook as he does most of the cooking now a days.

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