sassenach Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 DS thinks I make chicken too much. I think it's cheap and easy. We probably have chicken in some form 4 nights a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 2-3 maybe? Some weeks more, some less. He who complains about dinner gets to cook it next time! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 This past week my kids had chicken 5x I believe. I did not cook it any of those times, though. We usually have chicken about 1-2x per week I guess.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It IS what's for dinner tonight! But typically once or twice a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I make beef tacos on Wednesday, but other than that, if we have meat, it's usually chicken. Maybe a couple of times a month we'll have spaghetti or bacon (breakfast for dinner) but that's about it. We do eat meatless a couple of nights a week, so 3-4 nights a week it's chicken. Would recipe variety help dh eat chicken without complaining? Chicken pot pie, chicken and rice, and chicken parmesan served with spaghetti are some of our favorites here. How do you like to cook your chicken? Maybe you can find a few new ways to serve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 1-2 but it really varies. Some weeks I'll roast up a large chicken and then use the leftovers for a few more meals. Some nights we use eggs as our protein in the form of dumplings or breakfast for supper. I use a fair amount of hamburger around here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiMi 4under3 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We usually have roasted chicken, chicken cutlets, and chicken soup every week. Sometimes, we'll also have chicken stir-fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILiveInFlipFlops Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 1-2, but since the poll was about dinner, I didn't include the number of times we eat chicken tenders/nuggets for lunch :lol: I love the Bell & Evans GF chicken tenders and add them to my salads whenever I can. Which is a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ. Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 It is what's for dinner at my house on most days. Mostly because it is so much cheaper than beef. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clementine Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I make chicken a lot too, but when I make it (in almost any form) I make double so I have leftovers for lunch or another dinner. So that counts for extra meals that week, but less prep and cooking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Over a two-week period we probably eat seafood 5 - 6 times, chicken twice, beef, pork or lamb (all counted as red meat regardless of what they say about pork) two times, and veggie the rest. We just don't need that much meat. Rather than eat chicken twice or three times, we'd have fish once. Chickpeas and beans in soup are nice. I love lentils. I would rather go veg than eat the same meat three times a week. Seafood is different because we can do shrimp, pollock, salmon, more salmon, clams, cod... No, the kids don't always eat all of it but they are developing a taste for it at different rates. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 If I could cook chicken all the time, I would. Sometimes I make something else just to make something else, honestly. I probably like the flavor of other things better - fish, steak, really perfectly done pork - but I find that they're more trouble, or more expensive, or less healthy (or all three) most of the time. Thus, chicken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyBC Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Chicken is pretty pricey here. My family love getting a break from less-expensive ground beef, and welcome chicken when it's what's for dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justasque Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 DS thinks I make chicken too much. I think it's cheap and easy. We probably have chicken in some form 4 nights a week. Perhaps you need some different cheap-and-easy dishes to put in the mix? Consider eggs (technically chicken, but different taste-wise and cost-wise; put them in quiche, strata, fritatta), beans (Mexican dishes, Italian veg with white beans, veggie chili, bean soups, hummus), lentils, or nuts (butternut squash ravioli with a sauce using red onion, tart apples, and walnuts). Think about skillet dinners using hamburger (stretch it with beans and lots of veggies). Fish is nice but often not cheap; still, like the more expensive cuts of meat, you can use it as an accent rather than the focus of a dish. Perhaps ds can suggest a few dishes, and maybe help you make them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I do something with chicken every week or two, but it's more like a condiment than a main dish. Serving chicken as the main thing with a side or two? That only happens twice a year when ds requests sweet and sour chicken on his real birthday and the day we celebrate his birthday. I'm trying to use chicken a little more, but I still can't manage to do something with it more than once a week. I think fish is a lot more interesting and since I can buy mahi mahi here for about the same price as boneless, skinless chicken, I buy the fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ. Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Chicken is pretty pricey here. My family love getting a break from less-expensive ground beef, and welcome chicken when it's what's for dinner. Really? Where do you live? Here it costs $1.99 - $2.99 a lb for chicken breast and thigh while ground beef is $4.99/lb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 CHicken is usually out of my price range so it is a rare treat...maybe once a month. Ground beef on the other hand we eat 5-7 times a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Really? Where do you live? Here it costs $1.99 - $2.99 a lb for chicken breast and thigh while ground beef is $4.99/lb. Here it is closer to the opposite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 No chicken here. I'm veg. D cooks chicken maybe once every month or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Not that often. When I need to budget, we have lots of beans and rice, potatoes, and pasta for dinner. With that said, anybody complaining about what I cook is welcome to plan the menus, do the shopping, cook the dinners, and wash the dishes themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WistfulRidge Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We have it at least once but usually twice a week. I can't handle having it much more frequently than that. I love chicken, I really do, I just get tired of it very quickly. I think this is due to the fact that chicken breast was/is my mom's favorite meat and so I had it very frequently growing up. My husband will eat just about anything but my kids tend to prefer pork or beef. FWIW, ground beef runs between $2.99-3.28/lb, boneless chicken (both white and dark) runs $1.99-2.49/lb, bone-in dark meat/whole chickens are currently $1.29/lb, and pork (not bacon or sausage) runs $2.68-$3.68/lb. Technically chicken is the cheapest but when I make chicken I tend to have to make more of it because for whatever reason it doesn't stretch as far - I need what I make to be dinner for that night and lunch for DH. Largely because we seem to prefer chicken dishes in which the chicken is a "stand alone" (with a few exceptions like Chicken Pot Pie) but prefer ground beef in casserole or secondary scenarios. We all seem to find pork to be more filling so we don't use quite as much per meal so in the end it all balances out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Hubby brings home cooked chicken rice to work every day. For dinner we cook vegetarian. Chicken drumsticks (non-organic) is $1.49/lb How about giving your son who is complaining a budget for 7 dinners and let him do the buying and cooking. He and your other son can take turns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Roughly: chicken twice; fish twice; red meat once or twice; veggie once or twice. FWIW: whole free-range chicken is £4.50 a kilo; free ranged chicken breast is £14 a kilo; factory-farmed chicken breast is £4 a kilo; lean minced/ground beef is around £8; fatty minced beef is around £4. These are standard grocery store prices; Aldi is cheaper. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 3-4 times a week. It would be more than that if we didn't go out to eat a couple of times. Chicken is pretty versatile. This time of the year in addition to the usual baked chicken recipes and stir frys I'm using it in a lot of soups. DH has to watch his red meat intake, and I despise cooking fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Chicken 2-3, beef 2, pork 2, fish 1-2, no meat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horsellian Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We do chicken about twice a week, vegetarian about twice, red meat (incl. sausages/bacon) twice, and fish once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Chicken has a versatility that works well with how we eat. For example, in cooler weather we might have roast chicken one night, leftovers in a burrito or stir fry the next, soup later in the week. I suspect this is true for many. We ate grilled burgers made with ground chicken last night (we don't eat red meat). We had vegetarian food over the weekend (homemade calzones with escarole and shiitakes on Friday, Trader Joe's pumpkin raviolis with kale pesto on Saturday). Tonight we are having a frittata--eggs so I guess that is chicken. We probably eat chicken 2-3 times a week, seafood twice, vegetarian 2-3 times. Meat is rarely the focus of our plate so it is hard for me to vote. I might use homemade chicken stock, for example, in an otherwise meat-free dish. I encourage seasonal eating to add variety to the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvToRead Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We have chicken maybe 2 or 3 times a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Usually we have it twice a week, but this week it's double that. We've had/are having double meals from chicken. Roasted chicken and vegetables Chicken pie with leftovers Breaded, fried cutlets, scalloped potatoes, salad Chicken Parmesan, spaghetti, salad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Really? Where do you live? Here it costs $1.99 - $2.99 a lb for chicken breast and thigh while ground beef is $4.99/lb. Same here...... I can usually get good quality (nothing I need to cut off to use) boneless, skinless breasts for $3/lb. It's on sale at that price at least once a month, so I buy a month's worth at that time. Good quality (93%lean) ground beef is around $5/lb. But we eat more chicken because it's healthier than the beef. We usually eat sea scallops or shrimp once a week, chicken 3-4 times a week, 1 meatless and eat out once or twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I try to go meatless twice a week just for a change from the chicken and ground turkey we normally have. But since we have stopped eating red meat, chicken is almost always on the menu. It does get boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Never. Dh has some kind of poultry allergy or intolerance or something and eating it makes him violently sick, so we almost never eat it. (On the extremely rare occasions I do make chicken, I make him something else.) I miss chicken. :( We've been eating a lot of pork lately. My mom bought half a pig from a farm in her area and gave us a cooler full of different pork cuts. Normally our meals are divided pretty evenly between pork, beef, and veg. We don't eat seafood too often because I'm allergic to shellfish and dd just isn't a huge fan of seafood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We have it about once/week. We try and only get the free-range, hormone-free chicken, which is a little pricier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi26 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 3-4 but it really varies. We have chicken fajita macaroni and cheese (seriously so good and easy. Make chicken fajita filling (I add onion and finely diced carrot to mine for added veggies, also corn sometimes). Make mac and cheese. Stir together and serve- crumbled tortilla chips on top are a favorite here) almost weekly, chicken soup, chicken stir fry, sometimes homemade chicken tenders, roasted chicken sometimes...it's cheap and easy. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azucena Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I told DS9 that on his half-birthday I would cook him something he liked for dinner. "That's OK, Mom. I can't really think of anything," he replied. Then, suddenly, he had an idea: "NO CHICKEN!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted once or twice a week, because I couldn't quite vote 0. We do eat chicken, but not very often, and when I do make it, usually it goes into a soup. We eat quite a bit of beef. I don't much care for chicken except in soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We have 2 chicken, 2 fish, 1 beef or pork, 1 bean or lentil, and 1 clean out the fridge night each week. I'm trying to work toward more fish and bean/lentil meals, but dh is very resistant. Our current rotation is his compromise to help me with the anti inflammatory diet. It used to be 2 chicken, 2 beef, 2 pork, and 1 clean out the fridge night. Dh is very much a carnivore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnwife Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I haven't voted. But, we eat chicken a lot. However, we raise/keep chickens. DH just did one more butchering day, so I think we finally have all the chickens we want to butcher this year butchered. (The rest we will keep as layers. Oh, plus the 2 roosters.) Anyway, our freezer is full of chicken. I cook/bake at least 2 chickens a week generally. Often 3. So we have chickens those 2/3 nights, plus leftovers. Which are either eaten for lunch or another dinner. So we are currently we eat chicken 4 or more times a week. We need to eat it more. I need freezer space for Christmas cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We do chicken 2-4 times a week. Beef, usually ground is 2-3 times, not ground maybe 1 time, pork or fish a couple times a month (we have a rotisserie on the toaster oven), and I try to do a veggie centered meal at least once a week (potato soup, a little sausage with lots of cabbage). Really it depends on whats on sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 0. Up to about 2 years ago it would have been 2-3. Then about 2 years ago my middle son started to become a vegetarian, at the age of just turned 6. :) He first gave up turkey (at Thanksgiving) and then chicken because he loves birds and couldn't bear to eat them. Then it extended to other meat that was obviously meat (steak, pork chops, etc). The last thing to go was bacon, since he loved the taste and he could kind of pretend it wasn't meat. For the past year and a half he's been complete veg and even is very strict about labels on things like soup. So, since then our weekly meals are more like 3-4 vegetable, 1-2 meat (usually beef since the meat eaters in the family prefer it), and 1-2 leftovers. We try to have fish roughly once a week, the vegetarian eats vegetarian sushi those nights. We might have chicken or pork one of the meat nights, but it would be something like every other week for both of those. Those of us who do eat meat are fine with it but it's just easier for me to do meals that we all eat and it's also probably healthier for all of us anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Since I schedule things together, we may not have chicken every week but when we do it would be 3x (roast chicken, soup, enchiladas for example). We tend to have meat 4x a week, bean or dairy protein 1-2x, and an egg meal 1-2x. Our meats are mostly chicken and pork with beef occasionally thrown in. Of course, winter is here so I may be sending dh to look for cheap beef cuts because I love braised beef and noodles. Mmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We are very chicken based here. I would say if there is meat in the meal it involves some form of chicken. I only buy red meat when there is a good sale. Same for fish. Although, I wish we could have fish more often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I answered 1-2, though if we eat leftovers it could certainly be one more. I try to keep our meals rotating among beef, chx (or turkey), pork, seafood and vegetarian. Besides the beans/veggie option beef is actually our cheapest to buy high quality (grassfed/pastured for beef, pork and poultry, wild caught with no preservatives for seafood). We have lamb once a month or so and I have contemplated goat steaks, but not tried them yet. Dh likes chx, but kids not so much. I like cooking whole chx, but dh doesn't like dark meat. Boneless skinless breasts are not my favorite. I prefer to buy bone in skin on and roast them for the meat, but they are becoming hard to find. Pastured chx is pricey, but yummy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phathui5 Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I voted 1-2x/week. Tonight I made turkey chili in the crockpot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 We eat a lot of chicken. DH won't eat beef. So it's really either chicken or pork. Sometimes turkey. Sometimes seafood (but not often because it is so expensive). I don't like lamb. So yep...chicken several times a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyBC Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 We have chicken fajita macaroni and cheese (seriously so good and easy. Make chicken fajita filling (I add onion and finely diced carrot to mine for added veggies, also corn sometimes). Make mac and cheese. Stir together and serve- crumbled tortilla chips on top are a favorite here) Gotta try this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Where we live, chicken is quite expensive (I can only handle chicken breasts) so we only buy it when it is on sale. We are lucky if we are able to have it twice a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 It's interesting to hear that chicken is expensive in some parts. Here that is really the cheapest thing so that's why so many eat it so often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHASRADA Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 We have chicken once a week, on Friday. We may have chicken sausage cut up in a pasta dish a couple of times a month. We might have ground beef twice a week, not because it's that much cheaper, but because it's easier to stretch by putting small amounts in several dishes. When we have chicken, it is in whole pieces, 1-2 pieces per person, so it adds up. Otherwise, we have veggie pizza, a bean-based soup or Mexican dish, meatless pasta and fish a couple of times a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 We are very chicken based here. I would say if there is meat in the meal it involves some form of chicken. I only buy red meat when there is a good sale. Same for fish. Although, I wish we could have fish more often. We buy frozen fish and frequently toss it in a grain. I have a bazillion recipes for cooking fish from frozen--even breaded. http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/2010/01/six-tips-for-eating-quality-seafood-on-a-budget.html If we ate meat every night we could not afford fish as often. We also try to eat ethical meat. What this translates to is very small meat portions (no paleo diet here) except on special occasions; vegetarian nights several times per week; and fish almost as a seasoning in some dishes. Tonight I made chowder. $7 of salmon was spread between meals for eight and it was great--plenty of food to go around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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