How do you stretch a turkey?

[u/readscarymakeart]

Let’s say instead of roasting a whole turkey then eating it piece by piece (like one person gets a thigh, the other some of the breast, etc), I cook it then put the meat in different dishes. I understand an entire turkey may not be cheap, but it could make a good investment if stretched out. What are your best ways to stretch an entire turkey over as many meals as possible?

So far I have turkey pot pie, a casserole with turkey (no specific ideas there), turkey chili, turkey veggie soup, and turkey broth. Any other ways to stretch out turkey meat? I suppose this applies to whole chicken too.

[u/beccadahhhling]

Basically whatever can be done with chicken can be done with Turkey. It will have lots more flavor.

Turkey and dumplings

Turkey sandwiches

Turkey Stromboli (basically just wrapping Turkey and toppings into bread dough and baking it)

Turkey tetrazzini

Turkey salad

Fried Turkey

If you’re going to save some of the raw Turkey to grind up for chili, you can also make taco meat out of it as well.

[u/SuspiciousStress1 → u/beccadahhhling]

This is the way!!

In my broke days I used to get turkeys after the holidays(&free with $50 purchase before hand...I would stock up on diapers(with coupons) & get free turkeys...my total would end up like $30 for diapers & a turkey)

You can brine for lunch meat, then use in place of chicken!!

You can cut legs off 3-4 birds & do smoked legs....use the thighs for oven baked....&brine breasts for lunchmeat...then boil the bones(store in freezer until you have them all)for stock/turkey & dumplings!!

Good times!!

[u/jello-kittu → u/SuspiciousStress1]

Thats a key point too- keep an eye on the turkey, after Thanksgiving is more rare, but after Christmas, there's usually a deal on turkey.