Chicken week

Chicken for a week (almost)

This post is meant to be a guide to cooking on a budget, when you have to ride the bus or walk or ride a bike to the grocery store.  Normally I would recommend eating more variety in a week, but one could start out freezing some of the meals to mix in with another week.

Purchase some chicken - 8-10 chicken thighs or legs, or 4-5 leg-thigh joints.

Cook them all at once.  Either put them in a cast iron skillet, season with salt and pepper and curry powder and saute til cooked through ... or cook them in the oven at 350 degrees.

Set aside some of the broccoli and carrots for fried rice later in the week.

meal 1:    Roasted chicken, steamed rice (make extra), steamed carrots.

meal 2:    leftover chicken with 3 ingredient pasta and steamed broccoli (should be leftovers for lunch)

meal 3:    Fried rice (with extra rice from meal 1) with cut up chicken, carrots, garlic, broccoli, egg, etc.

meal 4:     Chicken soup and cornbread or Focacia or
                Salad with bread and cheese

meal 5:     treat yourself to dinner out - carry out Chinese?

shopping list:
chicken
rice
pasta
1 lb fresh carrots
fresh broccoli
frozen peas for fried rice and soup if possible
eggs
Parmesan
soy sauce
soup: canned tomatoes, beans, chicken broth or
salad: Romaine, tomato, cheese, dressing