Picked up a yellow sticker chicken for £2.81 in the co-op yesterday (about $3.80USD, about €3.20). Roasted it, picked the meat, boiled the bones, this will give me:
- about 4 portions of chicken noodle/pasta soup (pictured) add about 50p for the pasta, pennies for dried herbs and additional gravy granules.
- 4-8 wraps or burritos (£1.55 for 8 wraps, maybe 50p for rice if going down that route, maybe £1 on salad things like cucumber and bell peppers, £1 or so on an avocado, pennies on hot sauce and other seasoning.
Total cost of 8-12 servings is something like £7.50, or £0.95-£0.63 per serving.
I've not included the cook costs, but the chicken took about 90 minutes to roast. Soup and pasta was about 25 minutes on the hob total. Wraps and warming of chicken will likely be about 20 minutes total.
I just love a whole chicken to start the week on a cheap and tasty basis.
by pdarigan
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For the noodle soup, cook your pasta/noods separate (the nood/pasta water is not good in my experience), drain it and tip it into a saucepan. Add the chicken (break it up more if needed), add the bone broth stock. Top up with water if required. I like to add some dried herbs at this point. If you want a kick you could add some chili here too. If it feels too thin then gravy granules will help.
The wraps are just wraps – do whatever you like. I particularly love coleslaw with chicken. You can toast the outsides on a frying pan or George Foreman, it does add a pleasing crunch.
Whole chickens can save a lot of money, it sounds like you got a great deal.
For me personally, I’ve compared costs to a rotisserie chicken and raw whole chicken. Where I am, there are rotisserie chicken deals where you pay $5 on Thursday at a local grocery store (otherwise theyre $8 normally). Whole raw chicken is $1.50-2/lb here which comes out to more than the rotisserie. So its best to compare prices. But I do make my own chicken stock as well with the bones.
I love a whole roast chicken to save on costs! Scored a great deal!
They are really cheap where we are (3.75 euro, less if I can get one reduced). Usually we get a good 4 days of soup (2 people) with rice, a stir fry, wraps/sandwiches and 2 days worth of pasta.
If you have never tried soup/stew with rice I highly recommend it as I have found it more filling than even pasta and if you have somewhere you can buy bulk rice it’s cheaper too (Yep I’m that person who saves a portion of funds each month so I can buy a 25kg bag of rice once in a blue moon. It goes so far!). I cook rice seperately (freeze some for another day) and just add a small serving to the bowl with the soup on top.
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