1 chicken - 4 dinners

I don't eat much chicken anymore, mainly because I don't want to eat traditional, factory farmed chicken and organic, free range chicken is really expensive. But, this week I was at Costco and they had organic (not free range - which isn't ideal) whole chickens for $2.99 a lb. They were bundled in twos and my two birds cost about $20, so roughly $10 a bird.

I roasted the chicken using this Cooking Light recipe:

We had it for dinner with a salad. We had about 2 cups of shredded chicken left over.

I used the carcass (hate that word) and put it in the crockpot with ~6 cups water, celery, onions, carrots, bay leaves and peppercorn and cooked on high for a couple of hours. I got about 6 cups of stock.

I used the chicken, 4 cups of the broth (froze the other 2 cups for later use) and about 6 cups of cut up veggies to make Chicken Pot Pie. I got enough filling for 3 pies and froze the 2/3 of filling.

So - 1 chicken got us 4 dinners and an extra can worth of chicken broth. Not bad for $10!