Learning to be frugual...

[summersalt]

Tonight for dinner I made homemade chicken and dumplings. I normally would use a whole chicken. However, tonite I only used half the chicken. I'm saving the other half for Sunday dinner. My family didn't even notice the difference. This is becoming a fun game for me. Just how far I can stretch my budget....

 

[NVDisMom]

I always roast the chicken (or in tonight's case make "Beer Butt Chicken") and then boil down the carcass with onion, celcery, and carrot to make dumplings with later in the week. Far less than 1/2 a chicken, yet they never notice and sure as heck don't complain. Unless I don't make enough dumplings! I will do the same for chicken and noodles as well as tortilla soup. Happy frugal living

 

[Purseval]

Tonight for dinner I made homemade chicken and dumplings. I normally would use a whole chicken. However, tonite I only used half the chicken. I'm saving the other half for Sunday dinner. My family didn't even notice the difference. This is becoming a fun game for me. Just how far I can stretch my budget....

Next step would be to look for chickens on discount. We go to the store and see what time rotisserie chickens are put out. We know that the store leaves them for 4 hours, marks them down to half price then pulls them after another hour. We always get them when they are half off. We buy chicken leg quarters in 10lb bags when they get marked down, last time we paid 29 cents a pound. We never pay more than 99 cents/lb for split chicken breasts. Keep a sharp eye out when you shop and you will notice the markdowns.

Happy frugal hunting