Rotisserie Chicken Broth
This is something a lot of people are sleeping on, so stop sleeping on it. The store rotisserie chicken is a loss leader: the cooked bird costs less than the raw one next to it. Buy the cooked one, and then make it work three ways.
How I do it
- Pick the meat off the chicken for meals. Two of the Sam's Club birds (3 pounds each, and a dollar cheaper than Walmart's smaller one) last our family a couple of weeks of chicken cooking.
- Make broth from what is left. You get all of the nutrients from the broth, and it goes everywhere.
- Use the broth in place of water when cooking, for the most part: soups, rice, beans, however you use broth. It even goes in our dog Jyn's food.
- Skim the fat off the top and save it. That fat is for cooking: sauteing potatoes and veggies in it instead of the expensive butter or olive oil.
Why it matters here
One cheap bird becomes meals, broth, and cooking fat. Nothing gets wasted, and the expensive ingredients in the pantry stretch further. That is the whole game on one income.
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