Last week I bought a rotisserie chicken at Costco. For $4.99 I got a small chicken- a WHOLE chicken. I’ve never bought a whole bird, except for Turkeys on Thanksgiving. I’ve been reading this blog for the past year, (I love it!) and he’s talked about making stock several times. So between that and watching Food Inc. and being disgusted at how chickens are genetically modified to have unnaturally large breasts. I thought I’d try my hand at using the WHOLE bird- a small proportional bird. The day I bought it we enjoyed roasted chicken with baked potatoes and spinach salad for dinner. The next day we enjoyed it on sandwiches. Then I boiled the carcass with veggies to make stock. I stuck it in the fridge, and used half for portabello mushroom and spinach risotto one night, and chicken noodle soup another. I used the dark meat in the soup. We ate the whole thing- well not the bones. (Nor did we eat the chicken paws- which I recently learned are shipped off to China where they pay top price, considering they are a delicacy there!) It was thrilling to get so much use (and flavor) out of that $5.00. 
We might just switch over to rotisserie chickens for our chicken- as opposed to using frozen chicken breasts. Hmmm. 
It’s just a matter of time before I’m lopping off chicken heads in my back yard. . . Ok. Maybe not. 
It’s more likely I’ll be a vegetarian.