Chicken salad. I add it to rice, broccoli, and cheese.
I harvest all the meat, chop it up, mix it with taco sauce, shredded cheese, and pinto beans, then wrap it up in several dozen burrito-sized tortillas, then wrap in parchment paper and freeze them. It makes a cheap and delicious ready-to-microwave lunch whenever I don’t feel like making something more complicated for lunch.
Then I throw the remaining bones and skin and bits into my instant pot, add a few quarts of water, some salt, some bits of carrot, onion, celery, and make a bunch of chicken stock…which I freeze into ice cubes and use for cooking other things.
I try to get a rotisserie chicken every time I’m there…it’s one of the most economical sources of protein you can get.
Dude, this is the response I’ve been looking for! I’m doing this for lunches next week.
You’ll love them! I also like to throw diced onion and (if I have some) a little bit of pickled jalapeno into the mix.
The broth is definitely a great idea. I don’t really get the rotisseries but I cook my own whole chickens, and you get way more out of it when you also make broth. I use a regular crockpot and then use the broth for tons of different things like casseroles and soups.
Usually burn my fingers ripping it apart while eating it over the kitchen counter like an animal…
I’ve done that while drunk
I’ve done that while sober.
I try to get the biggest one in the case every weekend. I let it cool enough to not burn my fingers, cut off the thighs, and each breast/wing half, and put them into three or four reusable storage containers and freeze them. Then I take one to work for lunch. They keep my daily protein numbers up. It’s the cheapest sources of non-vegetable protein I’ve found that I can tolerate eating almost every workday.
I chop it up, freeze it, and then use it for quick meals like chicken quesadillas, pesto & cheddar chicken sandwich, BBQ chicken on a baked potato, chicken tacos, chicken salad and so on.
First day: eat chicken legs and wings
Second day: split into slices, add water and noodles
Eat it over the kitchen sink in a frenzy, share a little with my cats so they’ll stop screaming at me, and then I make chicken salad for sandwiches with the rest. I make the best chicken salad sandwiches.
Eat it like a savage hunched over the kitchen sink as soon as I get home like everyone else.
Is there another way?
