Just A Little Overkill

Yep, ran out of soup containers and
had to employ some others...

I'll be the first to admit that even I don't understand my thought processes sometimes. But this is a picture of approximately 12 quarts of chicken broth. Yes, nearly 3 gallons of homemade chicken broth that now takes up most of a shelf in my freezer.

There's a good reason for it! Well, I don't know about good,but there's a reason. Yes, I'll even share my own brand of crazy that is my brain at times.

I was reading the flyers from the grocery stores that come every week (yes, I look at them. I'm a dork, okay? But saving money is saving money, right? lol). One of the chains had whole chickens on sale, and I thought to myself that that sounded like a decent price, maybe I should get a couple... it's easy enough to cook them, then freeze the cooked chicken, and hey - I'd get chicken broth, too! After all, I am forever running out of chicken broth, I don't know why.

Only it turns out that Costco's regular price on whole chickens was even lower. And I just had it in my head that I *had* to have these chickens to cook! It was not an option, but a necessity! I *needed* those dang chickens! (No, I really did not, but it was just there in my head that I did, you see. And well, that isn't the kind of thing that easily changes once it's there. So... here we are, lol.)

I dutifully bought those chickens, and cooked 'em up yesterday (I also bought a huge thing of ground beef that I made meatloaf out of, and froze the rest. Yep, one of those moods, lol). Only I obviously added way more water to them than I needed to. 

They cooked and cooked and yep, the meat came off the bones. And there was this *huge* stock pot full of broth. I grew up learning that throwing food away was a sin so... it turned into 12 quarts, give or take, of chicken broth. Now safely stowed in my freezer.

Feel free to laugh. I won't hear you anyway, lol

:)