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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Chicken Bargain

Lots of bloggers write about how they go about saving money on food and other needs.

I thought I'd take a turn sharing what I managed to do with one chicken.

Whole chickens were on sale for 99 cents/pound.  The one I purchased weighed just under 5 lbs and for the sake of this post I'll say it cost me $5.00.

The first night I roasted the whole thing.  We had roasted chicken with potatoes, gravy and a vegetable.

The next night I used the leftover chicken I'd cut off one side and made chicken tacos. The next day for lunch we had taco salads with the left over chicken taco meat.

Last night I cut off more meat and made a chicken pot pie with bottom and top crust.  Dan's favorite.

Below you can see how much we ate.


I've frozen half of that for another meal and the other half will be lunch or dinner tomorrow.

Today I cooked up the remaining carcass and made a nice broth and had lots more meat come off the bone.  It was used for a chicken vegetable soup for our evening dinner.  Enough was left for another lunch and another portion was frozen for lunch in the future.

That's 9 meals with one chicken.  $5.00/9 = 56 cents per meal.  That may be a record for me.