Four Meals from Two Chickens:
Here is how to take two chickens and stretch them into four meals

 

Starters
Began by taking two large chickens (When I buy a whole chicken I try and buy the biggest bird possible, at least 4 to 5 pounds each) and putting them into a large stock pot and covering them with water and add 1 tablespoon of salt. Boil the chickens until they were falling apart. Spoon out as much chicken as you can and strain out the rest of the broth. I do this my taking a large bowl and setting my colander inside of it. Pour the broth and leftover bits of chicken meat and bone into the colander.  Save the broth to use in the following meals. After the meat cools debone all of it. Chop chicken into small size pieces and put in a bowl, container or large zip lock bag. Store in the refrigerator.

 
First Meal
For the first meal, “Chicken and Noodles”, pour about 6 to 8 cups of the broth into a cooking pot. Bring broth to a boil and add a little salt and/or broth seasoning powder (or bullion cubes) to taste. Add about 3 to 4 cups of whole wheat macaroni noodles. Let this boil about 10 minutes and then add 3 to 4 cups of chopped chicken meat. This is thicker than soup so that is why I call it “Chicken and Noodles”. I serve this to my family with a large tossed green salad and slices of home baked bread.
 

Second Meal
The second meal is Chicken Salad Sandwiches and Split Peas Soup.

The split pea soup is meatless and the recipe can be found here.  Split pea soup costs pennies to make and this does not add much additional cost to your meal.  I calculated split pea soup to cost about .60 cents for 12 cups of soup. Before you say you don't like split pea soup, give my recipe a try.  I have had many converts to this soup after trying my recipe.  It is one of my family's favorites.

To make the chicken salad sandwiches, take approximately 2 to 3 cups chicken meat chop very, very finely or use a food processor (if you have one). Add mayonnaise, salt and pepper to it (until it is the consistency of tuna salad) and make into sandwiches.
 

Third Meal
There should still be a good amount of meat left; enough to make a half batch of Chicken Tettrazini.  A half recipe will make 1 9x13 pan.  Serve this with a nice tossed green salad.

Fourth Meal
The final and fourth meal is Sweet & Sour Chicken.  You serve this meal over brown rice. 

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Now if you don't want to eat chicken four nights in a row the meat can be separated and packaged into container or small zip bags and put in the freezer.  Or some of these meals can be frozen, like the Chicken Tettrazini.