I bought 2 whole roasted chickens yesterday , I intended to give

[Paper Roses]

one to my daughter. I did not know she was going to the store and she bought one. Now I am stuck with an extra roasted whole chicken.

Since I am alone, there is no way I can eat 2 chickens in 3 days. Any ideas what I can make with the second chicken that I can freeze? I can make a chicken pie, anything else?

[cbayer]

1. I might just take all the meat off of it and freeze that for use later.

:shrug:

[Warpy]

2. Just take the meat off and wrap it in foil

Use sliced breast down the line for sandwiches, the wings and dark meat for anything you'd put cooked chicken into from salads to stirfries to doctoring up plain soups or mixed into gravy over biscuits. Date it and label it and plan to use it in 3 months or so.

You don't have to premake frozen items. Sometimes it's just nice to have the cooked meat itself available for when the fancy strikes you.

[Paper Roses]

3. I've never frozen the cooked meat "as is". I think I'll try to do so.

For some reason, I thought cooked meats had to be part of something else, frozen within a sauce, gravy, broth or something. I'm going to stir fry the leftovers from the first one tomorrow. I'll also freeze up the second one.

[The empressof all]

4. You have two carcasses too!

Use this as an opportunity to make stock! It freezes well too! I'd freeze some of the left over white meat in the stock. I think it stays juicier that way and then you can defrost it for soup and chicken salad sandwiches.

[hippywife]

5. Ditto what everyone else suggested. n/t