Meals for two from a roast chicken

We're back into meal planning after a lapse. I try to cook a lot of things at once and freeze them, like soups and chili. When I use my oven, I try to be efficient there as well. So I'll roast a chicken and veggies with a casserole, then bake for the week.

I like the wings and back of the chicken so that's my "first night" choice while Lee gets a leg. This leaves another leg and the entire breast for other meals.

Here are some of the other things we do with the rest of the chicken:

Chicken burrito
Chicken, ham & rice soup
Chicken and corn chowder
Chicken tacos
Chicken salad sandwich
BBQ Chicken sandwich
Chicken stir-fry
Chicken curry
Chinese chicken salad

Here's my recipe for Chinese Chicken Salad.  This is a main dish salad

I use an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the nutrition content with data from the Self NutritionData website. http://nutritiondata.self.com/

	AMT	Cal	Prot	carbs	fat	chol	fiber	Ca
Chinese chicken salad
chicken breast	half	142	27		3	73		13
Spinach(raw)	2c	28	3.6	2.8	0.4		0.6	102
Lettuce-Romaine	2 c	20	1.4	4	0.4		0.8	28
Carrot	1 med	30	0.8	7	0.1		0.7	27
Celery	1 stalk	7	0.4	2			0.2	16
Green onions	2T	4	0.2	2			0.2	6
Cashews	1/2c	392.5	12	20	32		12	26
Muruku	2 oz	240	6	40	6
Amy's dressing	4T	220			36
		1083.5	51.4	77.8	77.9	73	14.5	218
serves 2		541.8	25.7	38.9	39.0	36.5	7.3	109.0

So, we use half the left over chicken breast for this recipe.  Muruku is a vegetarian, extruded, gluten-free, fried, noodle-like product that is found at the check-out stands in Roth's markets. I like it better than the old, canned,"Chinese" noodle products I grew up with. There are several flavors but I use the onion variety for this recipe. Dressing is Amy's Shitake Sesame.  The bulk of the calories and fat in this dish come from the generous serving of cashews. Almonds could be a substitute and will lower those values somewhat.

Now we're two meals in and still have half  a breast and a leg left.