Making Four, Plus, Meals from One Chicken

Today I finished just one experiment on what I could do with a 4-5 pound free-range chicken.  Yes these chickens can get expensive.  Had I not grown it myself it would have cost me upwards of $15-18, but divide that by 20 and that's $.75 cents, or so, per person for the protien portion of each meal.  Let's look further.

**NOTE** This method can ONLY BE DONE with a 4-5 pound pasture raised chicken from your local farmer.  It would take 3-4 of those sale priced $.78 a pound chickens you get on sale in the store.

The first meal was Roast Chicken, Stuffing, Smashed potatoes, Creamed Green Beans and Pumpkin Cake Pudding (all gluten-free).  This served 4 adults and 2 young children.

The remaining chicken was saved including the remaining chicken from the bones.  The bones were saved and placed into a stock pot with a gallon of water, one onion, two stalks celery, two carrots and 4 cloves garlic.  It was simmered with 2 tablespoons pure apple cider vinegar for 12 hours covered.  The bones were given to the barn cats and the vegetables to the chickens after the broth was strained off and reserved.