Appreciation post: the $1.50 rotisserie chicken rice pot my old roommate in Dallas showed me

Adam Thompson · 2026-10-10T10:05:04.043446+00:00

My old roommate in Dallas used to make this one pot thing every Sunday that fed us for four days and I finally asked him for the recipe last week. Turns out it was just a $1.50 rotisserie chicken from the grocery store off Haskell, a cup of rice, a can of salsa, and whatever veggies were about to go bad in the drawer. He'd pull the meat, toss the bones in a pot with water for 20 minutes, and use that broth instead of buying stock. Total cost came out to like $4 for the whole thing and it honestly beat most of what I order out. I ran the numbers on my own grocery run and I was spending $9 to $12 on the same amount of food before this. Has anyone else built a whole week of dinners around one of those cheap cooked chickens, and what do you throw in yours?

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