Who are these families with leftover rotisserie chicken??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We (3 adults with healthy appetites) prefer dark meat, so the first meal is the legs/thighs/wings, and the next day I saute the breast meat with jarred curry sauce and serve with rice, quinoa or rice noodles. There is usually enough curry for 2 meals.

What else are you serving that 2 legs, 2 thighs and 2 wings are enough for 3 people with healthy appetites? Unless you are getting some ridiculously large chickens this makes no sense to me. The wings on those chickens have like 2, maybe 3 bites at most!

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

That’s gross. Talk about overCooked and tasteless

[Anonymous]

With 2 teen boys, we sometimes get 3 chickens.

[Anonymous]

When we get rotisserie chickens, we get them at Sam's club. The chickens are much larger than the ones that you get a the supermarket. So, yes, the chicken feeds my family of four (two adults and two tweens).

We normally eat half and I pick the other half of meat and it's enough to make a chicken fried rice or a chicken pot pie for my family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Costco chickens are bigger than Giant chickens.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:some get two

This is us. We get two or 1 1/2. If we get two, there’s leftovers.

[Anonymous]

We make chicken broth out of the carcass, flavored with ginger and green onions. Delicious.

[Anonymous]

We could get two meals out of them when the chickens were bigger and our kids were toddlers. But with teens and smaller chickens, it’s a bare minimum of two, particularly if we want any leftovers.

Try see days I just roast a whole chicken myself. Obviously that doesn’t work on a busy night when I did not WFH earlier in the day, but it’s an easy option for WFH days, or I cook it for dinner Sunday and then use the leftovers for a quick meal later in the week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For years the rotisserie chickens at Giant got smaller and smaller until they began to resemble Cornish game hens. I stopped buying them. Giant must have gotten a new supplier. I bought a chicken a couple weeks ago and it was enormous. It cost almost twice as much as the chickens did 3-4 years ago, but I couldn’t believe how much meat there was. If the chicken isn’t your main course on its own, but just an ingredient in a soup, salad, rice or pasta dish, that chicken would definitely have made multiple meals.

Their regular chickens are tiny now! They also sell “roasters” that are the size of the old chickens but cost much more.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of 5 and I get 2-3 meals out of one. We just don’t eat a lot of meat, and my kids prefer beef over poultry in most cases anyhow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With 2 teen boys, we sometimes get 3 chickens.

LOL! I had a chicken from costco cooling on the stove while i did some other crap, told my 12 yo and 15 yo boys to grab a snack because we had to leave in X minutes, ten minutes later I come downstairs and they are just ripping at the chicken like a pack of dogs. For their "snack".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

I'm sorry, but that sounds...yucky and a way to have dry, overcooked chicken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

If you're going to boil it, why not just poach your own fresh chicken?

Costco rotisseries are cheaper than fresh whole chicken

[Anonymous]

My family of four gets at least one full meal out of a fresh rotisserie chicken, then I always have enough off the bones for, say, chicken noodle soup or chicken enchiladas. Or we just eat the cold leftovers the next day. I can’t imagine the four of us eating a full chicken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're a family of 3 but if I pick all the meat from a rotisserie (from Costco), I have enough for 3 meals at least.

I usually throw the skinned chicken in some water and boil til the meat starts coming off. Then I let it cool and pull it all off. I will typically do a chicken salad, enchiladas and soup.

I noticed if we eat the rotisserie before I pull the meat off, we end up wasting a lot of it. Whatever is left, dries out if I put in fridge so I end up throwing away anything that was left.

I'm sorry, but that sounds...yucky and a way to have dry, overcooked chicken.

Yeah, I don’t get it. Why would you boil an already fully cooked chicken?