6 Pounds of chicken thighs, 3 meals

 Has anyone else noticed the phenomenally high prices of groceries at the store lately? It takes the breath away. Seriously, when I drop $60 at the store I expect to have more than one bag of groceries. With prices as high as they are, we have fallen into old habits. We are stretching our food as far as we can. I used to stretch our food like this when the kids were little. Once the boys became teenagers, cooking with leftovers became a distant memory.  But now that it's just the two of us again we are cooking with leftovers and stretching our food as far as possible.

So, here's what we did this past week with a 5 pound packakge of chicken thighs that were on sale at the store.

Sunday:

Put the chicken in the crock pot, seasoned it with salt and pepper and cooked it on high for 4 hours. We shredded the chicken, broke it into 3 equal size portions and refrigerated 2. We kept that 3rd portion out, mixed it with BBQ sauce and had pulled chicken BBQ with mashed potatoes and green beans.

Monday:

Taco Bowls

We mixed the chicken with 2 TBSP of taco seasoning and reheated it.

One can of refried beans, reheated/

Shredded romaine lettuce.

Chopped Tomatoes

Corn Chips

Cheese

Salsa

Rice (I had quinoa left over from another meal last week, so we used the quinoa.)

In a bowl, combine a little of everything together.  Top with guacamole or sour cream. (If desired)

Wednesday:

Green Chicken Enchilada Casserole

In an 8 by 8 pan, we layered the leftover chicken, green enchilada sauce, refried beans, and corn tortillas. (Kind of like you layer a lasagna.)

Since every ingredient in the casserole had already been cooked, assembling this was the hardest part. It took 10 minutes to assemble, and then we put it in the oven at 350* for 20 minutes.

Bonus Meal -

Chicken Salad. I pulled enough chicken to make chicken salad for lunch 2 days this week. I mixed mayo, pickle relish, mustard, onion, pecans and poultry seasoning with the chicken. 

I packed it into 2 different containers and had it on lettuce leaves each day. It was very, very good!