Where have you been all of my life?? Lol. If I make it to the 24th of this month I will be 69. I have cooked my entire life from the time I was seven or eight. I was getting some things prepared for dinner because my parents both worked. I learned so much in the kitchen, but we had big hearty meals, which is what they did back in the day. And I still enjoy those once in a blue moon. But the thought of fixing one chicken and having it last all week for the different recipes was so comforting to me. I haven’t been watching you very long but believe me every time I see a video pop up I watch and I’m so impressed. BTW, that broccoli cheddar chicken soup looks fantastic. I will be making that very soon. Keep up the good work. God bless you and yours.

When I grew broccoli, I didn't pull the stalks after the first crop. The plant will create more heads in the branches of the leaves. I used the leaves and stalk after the second crop. Shredded the stalk for broccoli slaw.

Red beans and rice was a Monday staple in New Orleans. Monday was laundry day and took all day. So beans were put in a pot with the fixings plus leftover meat from Sundays meal. It cooked with minimal hands on and at the end of the long day of washing and drying clothes all was needed was some rice

I don’t have a homestead, I live in a 1 bedroom condo (just got married and starting out) with my husband. But your videos are completely helpful and I can still implement things that you are teaching! Thank you ❤

I do this every week also! I'm 61 and so thankful to see a young woman doing so for her family! God bless you! Not many do these days. And that liquid gold broth is so useful and delicious! I made chicken poti pie last night and now have 2 more meals for the week! Smart cooking and healthier!

Get a stick blender to blend ur soup in the pot And make mayo instantly Well worth the investment

As a Truck driver I can eat all week on one 5lbs chicken. Piece it out and marinate or freeze to make it work for several meals. Thigh /drumstick. (2/3) breast two wings and carcass. 8 meals from 1 bird.

First timer viewer, like your honesty about how much your kids eat and how with older kids you might need more food. You work really hard.

Hello from our family farm in central ⛵⛵ lakes region New Hampshire. I haven't seen an Aga since I worked in England. We have a 1930 Home Comfort kitchen wood stove that originally belonged to our Great Uncle. I use everything, the Home Comfort, propane range, slow cooker, Instant Pot, etc. Whatever serves me at the moment. We are 3rd generation, raising grass fed beef, haying , logging. Our lifestyle is decidedly 1940s with the best of 2024 on our 350 acres. Your channel popped up today. I look forward to following it. All the best ~ Diane

Your channel popped up this morning(lol) an the spent the day watching video after video ❤❤❤🕊️

So happy your family popped up on my YT feed. Thank you for keeping things so real. Thank you for showing every day living, and not worrying about having this immaculate home that does not look lived in. You have become my favorite influencers. Thank you for making content. God Bless you.

You explain everything so well and then summarise it too. Seems you’re a teacher. ☺️looks delicious I could try all these recipes thank you !

I like how real you are and how you share your experience. You are helping others find there way. The right way, honesty and hard work!

We live in Paraguay and I bought a whole chicken again today at around $4, as I do once a week. I love cooking and we had our own restaurant a few years back. I get 8 portions from a chicken, which enables us to eat well for around $0-80 per meal. But I prepare every meal from scratch, and create something different every time.

I too try to use every little bit of the chicken as I de- bone it. But I’ve just learned that if you cook the entire bird initially in a pressure cooker, the bones too will be so soft & will crumble so you can get the benefits of them as well.😉

I just started doing a similar thing, poaching a whole chicken for around 30 minutes (with salt, vinegar, spring onion, and garlic) Keep the meat for super quick meals, and return the carcass for maybe another 60 minutes while the stock reduces. Quick delicious stock - and delicious meat that never goes dry. A great option for summer when you don't want to run the stove all day and night.

Thank you, Joelle! I have teenagers, so this will probably only make it for 2 1/2 meals. That is still a game changer because I now have 2 quarts of chicken stock as well. I suppose that gets us closer to 3 meals. I’m so glad I found your channel. 😁

Great video -- such a beautiful home! I used to make a chicken last for days when my kids were still children, too, and I still make stock of the carcass every time we have a roast chicken or another chicken dish. I use the scraps for a chicken salad, if there are any, but nowadays with adult children and a couple of little grandchildren, chicken is more of a Sunday roast thing at ours.. One of the other ways I stretched the meat back in the day was that there was always a vegetable platter with some dip for starters.

I love this! I wish more people talked about this tip! I usually get 1 or 2 whole chickens. either I’ll roast them up and use shredded chicken for 2-3 meals & make broth. Or I’ll cut the chicken up and use different parts for different meals. It’s just 3 of us so 1-2 chickens go along way and it saves money!

Great vid! Living alone, this will take me thru the week! Suggestion, I have learned that thoroughly rinsing my quinoa in a strainer for a few min helps remove the saponins from the hull. I developed a sensitivity to quinoa over time until I discovered this. Nice looking family!

I love your videos. You always offer such practical advise and I love your simple, no-frill attitude. I am 60 years old and we have been homesteading for almost 13 years and I still gain lots of info from your family. Thank you!!

I appreciate your content, I'm glad your channel popped up. Thanks from Ontario 🇨🇦

I tried this today and I'm SO HAPPY!!!! We have SO MUCH leftover meat for the week ahead and we have plenty of chicken broth to use as well. I will be cooking this way from now on! 😍😍😍

Great family cooking video. I like the chicken on Monday plan plus 2 more meals too. God bless!

My favourite recipe is the soup. Surely all meals were delicious. Thanks for producing and sharing. ❤

Thank you, great info

I love that idea of starting off the week with a roast chicken!

Just found your channel today and I am thrilled! Absolutely love your content and inspiration! ♥️

Great video! Excellent meal planning. Love the rhythm of a routine, less decision making, creativity and using all of what you have. Great life lessons for your kiddos. Thanks for sharing.

Love these recipes... pl post more!

First time viewer. This is my husbands account. I am a new subscriber and loved this detailed video. three recipes from just one chicken looked so good. I will defiinitely try all that you shared to save our household money.

Hej hej from Sweden 😊 I found your channel recently and I really enjoy every video! I really had to smile how similar the life with small children can be wherever you live... nasty colds and broccoli love 😅 Keep up your good work 👏 Thank you! Barbara from the Swedish West Coast

Great idea. I love it! Ty for sharing. The soup look so good.

1. I just love all your cast iron skillets hanging in your kitchen as well as the Dutch oven pots 2. I see lots products from Costco 3. Happy cooking

I love your channel so much. Thank you for sharing.

This is why I love caning chicken as well makes meals so much easier

Love your ideas on your Chanel thank you for that! Greetings from The Nederlands 🇳🇱

Thank you for sharing your meal prep with us. I love watching you and Jim make things because you make it look so easy and stress free.

Lovely video. Great way to inspire resourcefulness.

Such a beautiful family!!! ❤

You are an inspiration Mama! New subscriber, but I am loving your videos. Thank you for sharing this!

Good job!!! I enjoy watching you cook

Your channel popped up on my feed today. Our lifestyles are so similar, minus the cows. It’s hard finding like minded people in my area who feel the same way about food as we do. So it’s great to find people here! I would love to see your garden this year or a homestead tour to see your set up with your animals!

Just started watching your channel. Love it!

What an interesting stove. Never seen anything like it. Very fun, cooking video. Thank you for sharing😊

Heeey this was amazing! I'd love to try all of these recipes, because my kids are hard to satisfy, when it comes to meals. You are wholesome! ❤

Great ways to prepare chicken meals. Thanks! 🙏🏼😊

I am going to make your broccoli cheddar soup and slow cook a chicken regularly too! Thank you

Our broccoli soup looks amazing! I do have quite a lot of broccoli in fridge right now so I’m inspired to make soup tomorrow! We love chicken salad with dried cranberries😋

Just found your channel and I love it! I thought I picked a chicken over very good, but you make me look like an amateur! 😂

Beautiful video & beautiful family. I say in all humility and out of concern for your safety: Please be careful when cutting up your veggies. Don’t put rounded side of veg on cutting board(carrot round side was on cutting board) Always the straight side down so object being cut is more stationary and look at some videos on how to use your cutting knife properly to save time when slicing and dicing & to be able to keep your knife in contact with your cutting surface. 🎉You are a busy mom and can’t afford a serious injury bc of a knife slip. Thank you & God Bless your beautiful family.🙏🏻💕

One thing nice about teaching your children to pray before they eat is that they learn to be grateful for what they have, and they learn to wait for everyone else before they start, which is a nice touch.

I love the way you take care of your family. I’m one of 6 and my mom made great meals too.

I love this idea and may implement it. I like the idea of not thinking of what to have for at least a few meals in the week. Thank you for sharing!

You have a beautiful vintage stove ❤. That's amazing

Love the chicken recipes. Good ideas.

I used to do this when my children were children. I still do on occasion, when I start running low on bone broth. I really liked this video. I'm off to check out some others.

Enjoyed this video thank you !

Your soup looks divine! I love adding curry powder & raisins to my chicken salad too…it makes it so so tasty!

Looks delicious!

I add water to the slow cooker with the chicken, too. But, after I take all the meat off the bones, I throw the bones and skin in the slow cooker again with the broth already in there and cook for 8 to 10 hours.

You can use those bones to make bone broth too! I like to cook a whole chicken in a water to make meat stock, use the meat for a big soup or a couple of meals, and then use the bones and any other odd bits to make bone broth, which is still rich and wonderful when cooked in the pressure cooker along with the bones from one or two more carcasses (which I save up in the freezer). Thanks for the lovely video!

Just had your channel pop up great recipes and 💡 💡💡.

Wow love the method to make chicken broth- I add some of my broth with fresh rosemary it’s good for when your not feeling well 👍🏼

Been doing this for yrs, left over chicken in many different recipes. This week chicken first night next day etc chicken fajitas and chicken cesar salad. Chicken and dumplings are one of our favorites.

I blend my soups with an emersion blender. That way I can blend to the consistency I want. (ie. not completely creamy)

Love your kitchen

Im new to your channel thanks for showing nice 👍 recipes.

I enjoyed your video, thank you! I didn't know that about broccoli!! I'm going to start buying frozen from now on 🙂👍

Love this video!

We grew amazing big broccoli last year and it was so good!

I get the frozen broccoli. I also buy it from Costco! Loved the video and it's content. Blessings to your family!

Your amazing thank you for the breed info!

VERY SMART LOVE YOUR CHICKEN NOW THAT ALL FOOD HIGH COST I WILL TRY TO COOK THE CHICKEN YOUR WAY THANK YOU

Great ideas w chicken - always a headache trying to figure out what’s for lunch or dinner!😊

Your soup looks absolutely delicious! New subscriber here 👋

Enjoyed the video 😊

Hello beautiful family ! Thank you very much for sharing your life with us. The quinoa should be rinsed before cooking, it has a toxic coating as the seeds have. P&L.

Love your channel.... just subscribed

I made a slow cooker chicken last week. It was about 4 pounds. We had dark meat with potatoes and spinach for dinner. With the broth and white meat, I made a mild white chicken chili. We had that for a dinner and then for lunch the next day and still had leftovers. We also still had broth left so used that to make an onion sauce to serve over white bean "meatballs". That made another dinner and a lunch. I 💖 doing multiple meals like this.

My first video of you. I really enjoyed it. I’ve made a potato soup before but not the broccoli cheese with carrots and chicken. sounds really good. I too like preparing meat ahead of time to have for later meals. I do chicken that way. I also cook up hamburger meat to freeze for later.

Delicious nutritious meals! Broccoli is hard to grow in my experience also.

I love this! I’ve been doing roast chicken every week, but I love the idea of slow cooking it Monday and the broiling it afterwards to get that crispy skin. Tell me about your oven! It’s dreamy!

Thank you for showing cooking with caste iron. I just made eggs for the first time with one, with success!!!

Nice!! New subscriber here !! Nice to meet you ❤

I have fond memories of deboning a chicken with my cousins as prep for a big family dinner. You might lose a little chicken at first, but, include the kids.

Love, love, love your channel. Your content is fantastic and to the point!!! I am 66 yrs old and on a 5 acre homestead. I have chickens and turkeys and garden. One chicken feeds me for 5-8 meals just like what you are doing. I am going to try your method. It looked delicious!!! I have a question: Do you feed your chickens organic feed? I am afraid to use the stock because I feed mine non-GMO but can't afford to feed 30 meat birds organic feed. I was told that the toxins go to the bones and should not eat broth or stock unless it is an organic bird. Thoughts? BTW.....WHAT A GOOD COOK YOU ARE YOUNG LADY.

It would be wonderful if sometime you would give a tutorial I guess of your stove. I am just intrigued with it but I don’t have a clue how it works I’ve never seen one before.😊

From experience, I myself would never invest that huge amount of money in Vitamix blender. Not much needs a blender. A smaller more affordable blender can be useful. I had a high quality Kitchen-Aid blender I never used after the first time. Raising 6 littles, it was just yet another thing to clean. I do love your video!

Great idea using broth to cook with! More nutrtitious!😊

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I applaud you using what you have to the extent that you do. Too many people just fuss about being bored with something like just chicken and make such expensive meals that aren't necessary and wonder why they have no money. I grew up eating depression meals. There is a lot you can do with just soup. I do the bone broth after also. You can also save the peels and skins from veg and onions in the freezer and make a vegetable broth to flavor things also. Things are coming in the next couple years and people really need to get prepared and be ready. Just started to get some pots and garden areas ready, I live more in the mountains and we have a longer winter.Started growing my own horseradish for the fire-cider. I like the minced garlic fermented in the garlic also and its tolerable for children when minced. FYI!!!! to those that don't know, pre-shredded cheese has two more problems, well three. It does taste vastly different, it is sprayed with an anti-fungal called natamyacin and has been causing people to not respond to anti-fungals when they're really need just like the over use of antibiotics. Also, many cheeses that are shredded are mixed with a cellulose to stretch the cheese and it is a wood pulp product, research it.

Apparently there are more nutrients in brocolli stalks than the head..peel the outside then chop smallish add to everything cook as usual...plus i use kefir as cream or mayo!

What variety of carrots do you grow and how are you storing them in plastic bags? Just ziplocks? Holes or no holes? Love your videos! Thanks for uploading! I always look forward to them!

Shredded chicken and gravy over rice or mashed potatoes is wonderful also

i too love my vitamix. heads up they sell a Stainless Stell vessel so you are not putting hot items into plastic.

Love your idea of chicken slow cooking in water to make broth! Of a question in regards to how you preserve your carrots so long in the Refrigerator? I have tried to preserve carrots but they do not last nearly as long as what yours appear to do.

Use every part of the chicken but it's cluck. Just like with a pig you use everything by it's oink. With beef you eat everything but it's moo. I'm 69 and I grew up in the country. My mother never let anything go to waste. I'm so glad that she showed me all that she knew. I am so glad that you just popped up for me also. I am subscribing to your channel. ❤

I have found that chicken in its whole state is the least expensive per pound protein. I roasted chicken in the crockpot and the two of us ate on it for a week. Best $1.32/lb I’ve spent in a long time!!

Just found your channel & really enjoying it. Is there a reason why you cook the chicken upside down ie the breast part is facing the bottom of the Dutch oven instead of the other way around?