Day one, roasted chicken. Breastmeat for me, legs for her. Day two, she picks it clean for chicken tacos. Day three, those bones go in a soup pot with veggies and leftover rice or noodles.
That chicken is screaming for peace by the time she's done with it.
I do the same thing. Bought a $4 chicken from the Walmart deli, today. It will get the same treatment and be at least 3 meals.
If there’s a chicken carcass in the house I HAVE to make stock with it. It’s a compulsion, LOL!