Educating the Wheelers

This post is a big “shout out” (as the kids used to say) to everyone who only buys boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Because of your preferences, my local grocery store has frequent sales of leg quarters for 59 cents a pound. Fifty-nine cents! For some perspective, tomatoes were 3.29/lb that same day. (Admittedly, it is still the dark night of winter up here. But still…)

A couple of nights ago, I took one of those ~5lb packages and baked it up, then stripped the chicken off and put the bones in some baggies. So what can you do with less than 3 dollars worth of meat?

That night, we had Hillbilly Housewife’s Chicken Fajitas. The next day, we had both Tightwad Gazette’s “Tuna Cheddar Chowder” made with chicken instead and a stuffing and gravy bake. I still had quite a bit of chicken leftover, but decided to make a ground chicken sandwich spread with it. There was even enough to send some home for my folks. (It made a nice breakfast this morning.)

So. Less than 3 dollars worth of meat, 5 meals.

And I haven’t even made stock with the bones yet!