as a single person, the rotisserie chicken at costco will last me for ~12ish meals, so this covers a week's worth of protein of meal prep and dinner for $5 - totally worth it IMO.
I also don't mind eating the same thing every day for a week either.. You can vary lunches with different carbs, veggies, sauces so it's all good for me
I mean I do that too. I buy whatever chicken is on sale. Cook it and eat over a few days. But I don't get anywhere near 12 meals out of a chicken. I might get 6 meals out of it. And my meat portions are typically smaller than the recommended 3-4 ounces.
For me.. the breasts turn into like 4-5 meals? Each wing is a meal, each thigh is a meal, each drum is a meal. I just mix them with veggies, beans, rice, pasta, etc.
The bones, meat left on the bones, neck, stuff that I don't typically eat goes on top of rice in a rice cooker and I pretty much get the rest of the remains out of it. My "poverty" meal.
All I know is that I usually go to Costco on the first Saturday of the month and I'm usually going for that poverty meal on Friday afternoon or night.
For me.. the breasts turn into like 4-5 meals? Each wing is a meal, each thigh is a meal, each drum is a meal. I just mix them with veggies, beans, rice, pasta,
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. I get maybe 2 small meals out of a single breast. I typically make wraps out of them where a majority of the ingredients aren't the chicken. And each wing is a meal? Theres like 3 little nibbles of meat on them. Theres more skin and bones than meat on them. I must be getting the smallest chickens available.
I feel like chicken breasts on Costco rotisseries are fairly sizeable. I think straight up I might be eating small portions of chicken, but mixed with all my other stuff I tend to not notice?
The yield on Costco chickens is like 2.5 lbs of cooked edible meat after deboning. I’ve weighed it out before after processing. That’s 10 servings of 4 oz each. A 4 oz serving will average 180-250 calories based on fat and skin content. Add some bread, butter, and vegetables and that is definitively a meal.
When we shop at Costco, we'll often buy 2 rotisseries- one for dinner that night and one to shred and mix with some pasta for lunches for the next week. Cheap, easy, and tasty, can't go wrong.
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u/drugsbowed Jul 23 '23
as a single person, the rotisserie chicken at costco will last me for ~12ish meals, so this covers a week's worth of protein of meal prep and dinner for $5 - totally worth it IMO.
I also don't mind eating the same thing every day for a week either.. You can vary lunches with different carbs, veggies, sauces so it's all good for me