Just plain cheap and proud of it!
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Egged on by the high cost of chicken parts, Simon Kirsch, a 33-year-old tech worker from Portland, Ore., decided to spring for the whole bird and take it apart himself.
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The year is 2022. When purchasing a whole chicken is news.
It’s called “being cost effective”. Just a frugal muse!
Labor costs money.
DIY.
I have a bread maker I’ll haven’t pulled it out in a while, but perhaps I will.
I buy whole chickens all the time but gosh I can go through a bird in one or two maybe three meals between both of us.
I bought a whole fresh chicken yesterday for $6.50 and baked it for our cat , she’ll eat good for a week or less , LOL
Costco rotisserie chicken has always been a favorite with us.
Make soup, freeze leftovers in meal sized packets. Make casseroles, freeze leftovers in meal size packets. If you do it enough you end up with a nice variety. Cheap meats are tender if the are roasted in an old fashioned Dutch oven.
Been that way all my life!...................
I often buy whole chickens and cook them on the rotisserie of my Weber Kettle grill. I may do one this weekend.
I can eat a whole lot better buying a whole cut of meat, and slicing it into steaks/chops/roasts myself. A freezer is your friend.
With all the illiterates looking to be offended, you’ve got a lot of nerve typing the word niggardly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/williams/williams020499.htm
Me too, had to cut back on my food bill. I have been carnivore the last four years eating mostly beef. Last week I got an air fryer and started cooking whole chickens. Stater Bros has them @$1.49.
It’s pretty tasteless, so I spice it up with jarred Tikka Masala and Jalfrezi Curry sauces.
*** “You don’t want to have the same meal over and over and over until it’s gone,” she says.***
If you have a freezer, there’s a simple fix for that.
You want some “Depression era” recipes? My Grandma used to make “Irish spaghetti”... which was spaghetti with ketchup :D
Instead of steaks, I now smoke chuck roast on my Traeger for 3-4 hours, and I am more likely to grill chicken than beef.
Chicken shawarma...yum!
Slow cookers, pressure cookers and sous vida appliances will be given this gifting season. While pressure cookers might seem old fashioned, there are many years of recipes when they were the kitchen high-tech in the 40s-80s.
Inflation, as much as its twin of necessity is an inspiration to the wise and a tool for the frugal!
Wake me when people start buying whole cows.