Watching a guy at the Portland food bank turn a single chicken into three meals changed my thinking.

I was volunteering there six months ago, helping sort donations. This older guy, Mike, was showing a new family how to stretch a whole chicken. He roasted it for dinner, used the bones for soup the next day, and made chicken salad with the leftovers. I always just bought cheap cuts and called it good. Now I'm torn: is it better to buy the cheapest single item, or spend a bit more on something you can use multiple times? What's your take on the 'buy once, use three ways' method versus just grabbing the lowest price tag?

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keving935d ago

Read a blog post about that exact thing last week.

joseph_lewis925d ago

Oh yeah, I caught a video on that. Some guy broke it down pretty well, made a lot of sense actually.