If you buy and cook a chicken, do you eat/use all of it?

We eat all of it because my husband and I both love dark meat. Most of the time we have white meat left over. If that's the case, I make a pot pie or chicken quesadillas sometime in the next week.

oh come on eat the whole thing! there are chicken starved people on yahoo answers!

well, if chicken breast is your thing, Go to the frozen section of the super market and just buy a kiloe or two of chicken breast w/c is more hassle free than buying a whole chicken. we use a whole chicken, stuff it with garlic,lemon and bake it in the oven or just plain fried chicken, Just chop up the whole chicken and your good to go. If left overs still bother you, You can make fried rice or get creative, Make dishes like left over chicken salad, Chicken sandwich spread, or mix it with pasta. :)

yeah you can make a nice soup out the dark meat but at my house we de-bone the entire chicken and make like chicken and dumplings and freeze the extra we don't eat the first night but with the carcass you can boil it down and eat it which i don't prefer or you could just bury it in the back yard as compost and fertilizer (don't give it to the dog chocking hazard)

Boil it, strip it and make chicken patties out of it or mash boiled eggs with it to make a chicken spread/filling for any type of bread. Frying evreything is still the best.

I was raised to use all parts of the whole chicken or turkey. After the meat was eaten over the course of a few days, the carcass's were boiled with onion, celery, carrots and salt and pepper to make broth. The broth was then used to flavor soups and stews, or in graveys or stuffings. You can also put it in ice cube trays and freeze until you want to use it.

I sometimes get rotiserrie cicken and toward the end, finger-strip out the caracass and cook it up with chicken-broth and onions, celery etc and make an ok soup-thing

I urge you to learn to appreciate the extra taste that the thigh and drum has, they are by far the better part of the chook. There are so many recipes for thighs and drums that it fills books. If a person was to throw away the rest of the chicken after the removal of the breast, they have more money than brains. They should buy breasts, they are easier to cook and a lot less hassle. I don't buy whole chooks for that reason as they are too big. Two drums or thighs, or a whole leg is all I can manage for a meal. Remove the wings and legs and use in casseroles, sandwiches or stir fys and use the frames for stock. Wrap a chicken drum in tinfoil and add it to your kid lunch box and a slice of buttered bread and you will be the best mum in the world for a day.

Use leftover chicken for chicken salad, add celery, toasted almond slivers, grapes cut in half, mayo, onions, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Simmer chicken bones with stalks of celery and onions for about an hour, drain and keep only the liquid. Place cooled liquid in the fridge overnight, the grease will float to the top by the following day, throw grease away, place chicken stocks in ice cube tray. When frozen, place them in a ziplock bag and use when needed.