[NJRighty]

"She needs to watch for the sales and buy a WHOLE chicken, cut it up and make it stretch 3 meals."

And boil the chicken first, so she can get chicken soup out of that bird. And close her legs so she doesn't have any more mouths to feed.

[SpookBrat]

Boiled chicken served with steamed rice is my son's favorite meal.

[Finny]

What I do is bake the chicken, which makes for two meals for me and my husband, and THEN I take what's left and simmer it for a couple of hours to make soup stock, which is worth at least another two meals of good, hearty, chicken soup.

Other cheap sources of protein-rich food -- canned tuna, eggs, and milk, which is double-cheap when you buy it two gallons at a time (good, that is, if you're not lactose intolerant, which THANK GOD I am not ... I drink about a quart a day).

[sweetliberty]

"And close her legs so she doesn't have any more mouths to feed."

What? And dry up her source of income?