Anonymous wrote:What family doesn’t buy multiple chickens at a time?? I always buy at least 2.

I don’t. Shocker, not everyone is like YOU.

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Anonymous wrote:So many online recipes say to use "leftover rotisserie chicken" and call for lots of it - like as much as would be on a single chicken. The recipes are obviously geared toward families (serve 4). What family of four gets a rotisserie chicken and has enough left over to make another recipe?

Also, I had read somewhere that rotisserie chickens aren't that great from a food safety standpoint. Is that not true?

People without teenage boys

PPs above, including me, do have teen boy athletes. They don't need half a chicken each.

Same. I’m the family of 5 PP whose family doesn’t eat a whole chicken at once. We have a teen, a tween, and a elementary kid. All athletic. None of us are huge meat eaters. I incorporate the chicken as part of a larger meal; in a soup, chicken fried rice, tacos with beans mixed in with the chicken, which is how it ends up being 2-3 dinners for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

Wait - half a chicken total for 4 people??

DP, but same here. Half a chicken for 4 of us is more than enough. They are welcome to more, but no one eats more than that.

The only way half a chicken would work for my teen boys would be if I accidentally bought a turkey by mistake.

I might need PP’s mashed potato recipe. Maybe I am cooking it wrong.

Anonymous wrote:some get two

This. 1 is not enough, so we get 2 and end up with leftovers.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

Wait - half a chicken total for 4 people??

DP, but same here. Half a chicken for 4 of us is more than enough. They are welcome to more, but no one eats more than that.

Same! We’re not just gnawing on meat, we have plenty of sides.

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Anonymous wrote:So many online recipes say to use "leftover rotisserie chicken" and call for lots of it - like as much as would be on a single chicken. The recipes are obviously geared toward families (serve 4). What family of four gets a rotisserie chicken and has enough left over to make another recipe?

Also, I had read somewhere that rotisserie chickens aren't that great from a food safety standpoint. Is that not true?

People without teenage boys

…yes, and? I believe the OP was asking a general question, not a question specific to ZOMG BOYS. Do you get that not everything is about you and your family?

Our family of four eats about half a chicken, and yes, we have sides to make it a complete meal. Calm down, people. Chicken, asparagus, roasted potatoes and maybe some pears. If you can’t make a meal of that, I don’t know what to tell you. We use the leftover half of a chicken for a soup, or maybe in an entree salad, or add it to pasta. Calm down, honestly.

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Anonymous wrote:So many online recipes say to use "leftover rotisserie chicken" and call for lots of it - like as much as would be on a single chicken. The recipes are obviously geared toward families (serve 4). What family of four gets a rotisserie chicken and has enough left over to make another recipe?

Also, I had read somewhere that rotisserie chickens aren't that great from a food safety standpoint. Is that not true?

People without teenage boys

PPs above, including me, do have teen boy athletes. They don't need half a chicken each.

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

Wait - half a chicken total for 4 people??

DP, but same here. Half a chicken for 4 of us is more than enough. They are welcome to more, but no one eats more than that.

Anonymous wrote:So many online recipes say to use "leftover rotisserie chicken" and call for lots of it - like as much as would be on a single chicken. The recipes are obviously geared toward families (serve 4). What family of four gets a rotisserie chicken and has enough left over to make another recipe?

Also, I had read somewhere that rotisserie chickens aren't that great from a food safety standpoint. Is that not true?

People without teenage boys

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Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

Wait - half a chicken total for 4 people??

Dont forget they have crusssssty breaaaaaaad too

Anonymous wrote:Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

Wait - half a chicken total for 4 people??

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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.

DP: I take all the meat off of the chicken and serve it on a plate with grains and vegetables. Each of us takes the portion we want, which amounts to the equivalent of half a breast. No one is restricted from taking as much as they want, but more than half the meat is left over. None of the vegetables are left though. This was not a plan it's just what we do.

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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!

I know! I don't understand these portions, and I don't understand the skinning and boiling.

Family of 4, including tween/teen boys. We usually have half a chicken for a dinner. But it’s not like we are eating just the chicken - we usually have a salad, a couple of sides like mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli. So it doesn’t take that much chicken meat to fill us up. When we get a rotisserie chicken, we usually have enough left over for at least one additional meal, and maybe a little extra for a couple of sandwiches.

When I go to crisp and juicy or el pollo Rico, I get two chickens for my family of four.