Caitríona Redmond: Save money when cooking a chicken by making your own stock

A large bird will serve a hungry family three times, once with a roast dinner, a second time with the leftover meat, and a third by using the carcass to make chicken stock.

If I was to use lots of lemon or flavoured herbs when roasting the bird, I would end up with an awful stock.

Where's the best place to get your food and save money each week?

A common piece of advice bandied about is to go from shop to shop to get the best value. This makes sense if you have time, energy, and can afford the shoe leather/fuel. If not, like me, you’ll stick to one local supermarket that offers the best value. Then it can be as much as four weeks between special offers so on the weeks that the ‘stewing beef or whatever offer’ isn’t available, I stock up on other staples from my shopping list instead.