Winner, Winner, Three Chicken Dinners

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Stretching budgets is so important these days. Not that it wasn't always important. But certainly inflation—which happened long ago by the way, just in case someone wanted to go there—has made being creative all the more useful. I bought a whole chicken which I cooked in the crock pot on Wednesday. It was a rather large bird and was on sale for $1.39 per pound. So, that was meal one, which was served over a bed of hot, white Jasmine rice with buttered green beans on the side. Then I removed 2 cups of chicken from the carcass last night and made a soup concoction. I call it that because I just threw a bunch of things together sort of hodgepodge. I cooked up a mixture of onion, celery, and red bell pepper, then added in a can of petite diced tomatoes, a can of tomato sauce, some water and a chicken bouillon cube and then added in the chicken to "heat up" along with some minced garlic. Then I added in 2 cans of pinto beans, 1 can of cut green beans, and about a cup of frozen corn. I seasoned it with some cumin, a packet of taco seasoning and some oregano. We served it with crushed saltine crackers, cheese and a dollop of sour cream with chives. That was meal two, which actually will be more than one considering how much soup was made out of this which we will, of course, have more than once. Tonight, I plan to make chipped chicken with the rest of what's in there, or as some people like to call this, Sh*t on a Shingle. What's something you recently stretched out nicely to help abate a little wheezing on the food budget?