Today we have a guest post from Kris S.
Hey Savvy Friends!
I wanted to share with you all how I recently used 2 whole chickens to feed my family of six for five meals! Can you believe it? Me either!
After recently deciding to take up a food challenge that would require me to prepare most of our meals from food that we already had on hand in our freezer and pantry,I came up with five meals using two chickens.
Meal 1 consisted of me baking the chickens and serving them with scalloped potatoes and cream peas.
Meal 2 was a rustic soup with leftover chicken, baby red potatoes, carrots, yellow onions and various herbs and spices.
Meal 3 was leftover chicken with noodles, served over mashed potatoes and corn.
Meal 4 was a cheesy chicken pot pie.
Meal 5 was a BBQ chicken pizza.
We did not eat these meals 5 nights in a row but spread out between other meals so that my family would not be sick of chicken or potatoes!
By thinking of what all I could make with these two birds I feel really good about the meals and my family liked all of the hot and hearty meals during this recent cold streak.
A few other things that might interest you as far as stretching your dollar and your leftovers.
After cooking the two chickens on the first night, I saved the all of the yucky, I mean lovely fat and bones and made my own chicken stock for the chicken and noodle meal. I also used the leftover cream peas from meal 1, the left over red potatoes from meal 2, AND the leftover corn from meal 3 to make the cheesy chicken pot pie for meal 4!
I also used the leftover scalloped potatoes from meal 1 to make cheesy egg, potato, sausage breakfast burritos!
I did not have any waste from these 5 different chicken meals and feel most proud of myself for taking the time to make a plan and follow it! 
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I hope this was a helpful post for all of you and offered up some kitchen encouragement.
I also have challenged my self to make my entire, ENTIRE, January menu based off of what we have here or with only a couple of little trips to the store filling in with produce or dairy as needed.
Can you say creativity?
Can you say crazy?
Wish me luck!!
You can visit Kris’ blog at Sweet Country Life.
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