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.
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.
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.
Usually burn my fingers ripping it apart while eating it over the kitchen counter like an animal…
I’ve done that while drunk
First day: eat chicken legs and wings
Second day: split into slices, add water and noodles
