When you're used to doing it, making egg noodles takes almost no time. Yesterday a grocery store had chickens with a 8/29 last sale date marked down to $.49/#. I cut the meat out of one breast, and baked it for my wife to make chicken salad sandwiches next week. The thighs and gizzard I fried and ate for lunch. The other breast, I cut up into boneless fake wings for my son, and the drumsticks and wings for my wife and I for dinner. Mashed potatoes, faux chicken gravy, green beans cooked with a little bacon grease, and crumbled bacon to put on top of the beans on the plates.

The ribs (with quite a bit of meat still on them), back and tail are becoming soup, with chicken carrots celery and the egg noodles. That's a lot of use from a $2.02, 4# chicken. The only things that got thrown away other than bones are the kidneys and liver.

--Bryan