Who are these families with leftover rotisserie chicken??

[Anonymous]

OK, I guess my family just eats more meat than some of you! We generally get chicken from Wegmans and it's usually a 4 lb bird. For dinner, my teenage boys both eat the thigh/leg, and my husband and I split a breast and each have a wing. That leaves one breast leftover. For me, that's not enough for enchiladas, chicken pot pie, or soup, where I would generally use at least a pound or 2 of chicken. We do always have sides like roasted veggies and potatoes or couscous or mac and cheese with the rotisserie chicken.

With the leftover breast, we usually make chicken salad for sandwiches the next day for 2-3 people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, I guess my family just eats more meat than some of you! We generally get chicken from Wegmans and it's usually a 4 lb bird. For dinner, my teenage boys both eat the thigh/leg, and my husband and I split a breast and each have a wing. That leaves one breast leftover. For me, that's not enough for enchiladas, chicken pot pie, or soup, where I would generally use at least a pound or 2 of chicken. We do always have sides like roasted veggies and potatoes or couscous or mac and cheese with the rotisserie chicken.

With the leftover breast, we usually make chicken salad for sandwiches the next day for 2-3 people.

…that’s…what we’ve been saying. You get a full meal plus some extra. If you really got picking, you could easily make that chicken salad enough for four people, especially if you up the volume of diced celery and whatever other ingredients go in the chicken salad, or made them open-faced melts. Or just added them to an entree lunch salad, along with hard-boiled eggs, etc.

You talk about a whole bird’s pieces like that’s it. Get in there and get the meat off the bones. Get into the fatty places and you’ll find there’s still good meat in there if you actually work for it.

[Anonymous]

If we're feeling lazy and hungry enough to get a rotisserie (instead of buying a chicken, spatchcocking it and shoving it in the air fryer) DH and I just go all in and eat most of it. If we have a side, it's usually just mashed potatoes from the same store. We only do this a few times a year and never really intend to buy one ahead of time.

I am a normal sized adult- around 110 pounds- and I can eat half a snall or medium chicken, no problem. I can't imagine just splitting a breast with someone, but I guess I'm a bit of a pig.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we're feeling lazy and hungry enough to get a rotisserie (instead of buying a chicken, spatchcocking it and shoving it in the air fryer) DH and I just go all in and eat most of it. If we have a side, it's usually just mashed potatoes from the same store. We only do this a few times a year and never really intend to buy one ahead of time.

I am a normal sized adult- around 110 pounds- and I can eat half a snall or medium chicken, no problem. I can't imagine just splitting a breast with someone, but I guess I'm a bit of a pig.

For me it’s a time thing. It’s much easier to just run into Whole Foods which is on my way home from work at 4pm and grab a chicken and some frozen vegetables and cornbread. I heat the chicken in the time it takes to cook the vegetables and grill the cornbread.

And, I’m sure people will think this is gross or lowbrow, but I usually get a bag of beans for the leftovers. I put cut leftover chicken in a pan with a section of beans and a section of cheddar. I heat it all in the same nonstick pan and pour the molten beans and cheese and chicken over tortilla chips.

[Anonymous]

I succumbed to temptation and grabbed a grocery store rotisserie chicken Wednesday and ate much of one breast for dinner with roasted veggies. This morning I picked the chicken and ended up with a nice big pile of shredded white and dark meat which I combined with red onion, dried cranberries and walnuts and vadouvan curried mayonnaise for a delicious chicken salad. It’s a lot provably enough for four good sized sandwiches or a big scoop with greens as a meal. The chicken salad recipe is great I highly recommend - add celery too if you like. The vadouvan curry blend from Spice House is amazing.

[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!

We are talking Costco-size chicken, although I usually roast an organic bird from scratch. Somehow it does not shrink to the size of a Giant (ha!) rotisserie chicken. I also serve salad, and pasta for DH and son; sometimes an additional cooked side veg like broccoli or asparagus. The wing potrion usually includes a chunk of breast meat.
I am NOT the PP who boils rotisserie chicken. That's appalling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy 2. We are a family of 3 - DD eats both legs, I eat a breast and DH eats wings and 1 or 2 thighs. So I have one breast leftover which I usually put over a salad for lunch the next day. If I want to make enchiladas or soup I use a whole other chicken.

That's how it is in our house too. I usually make stock with the carcass and use the leftover breast and bits for soup or enchiladas

[Anonymous]

One chicken barely feeds 3 of us. I buy 2 if I want leftovers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If we're feeling lazy and hungry enough to get a rotisserie (instead of buying a chicken, spatchcocking it and shoving it in the air fryer) DH and I just go all in and eat most of it. If we have a side, it's usually just mashed potatoes from the same store. We only do this a few times a year and never really intend to buy one ahead of time.

I am a normal sized adult- around 110 pounds- and I can eat half a snall or medium chicken, no problem. I can't imagine just splitting a breast with someone, but I guess I'm a bit of a pig.

I mean, what’s on your plate? If I were just having chicken and broccoli, I might eat more chicken. But yeah, half a breast alongside some roasted potatoes and some asparagus, that’s a full plate. That’s a meal.