SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Chicken 1, Chapter 8 (A Chicken Dinner)

A whole chicken (about 1.6 kg), floury potatoes, carrots, green beans or broccoli, onions, garlic, lemons, fresh thyme, butter, plain flour, low-salt chicken stock, frozen peas, tortillas, rice, tinned tomatoes, freezer bags, a permanent marker and the ingredients for the dishes you choose from earlier chapters.

A Sunday chicken dinner for four (4 portions)
[ ] 1.6 kg whole chicken
[ ] 900 g floury potatoes, peeled and cut in chunks
[ ] 4 carrots, cut in sticks
[ ] 200 g green beans, trimmed
[ ] 50 g butter
[ ] 3 tbsp olive oil
[ ] 1 tbsp plain flour
[ ] 400 ml chicken stock, unsalted

A week of chicken meals (5 meals for 2)
[ ] 1.8 kg whole chicken (Sunday)
[ ] 6 boneless thighs (Wednesday)
[ ] 8 bone-in thighs (Thursday)
[ ] 1 pack of tortillas or bread for the leftovers
[ ] 1 pack of freezer bags and a marker

Freezing and defrosting chicken (4 portions)
[ ] 8 chicken pieces (thighs, drumsticks or breasts)
[ ] 4 freezer bags
[ ] 1 permanent marker
[ ] 1 plate for defrosting

Your signature chicken dish (your choice)
[ ] 1 cut of chicken (about 150 g a person)
[ ] 1 method from chapters 2 to 6
[ ] 1 sauce or flavour of your choice
[ ] 1 notebook and pen

For the experiments
[ ] Freezer bags and a marker
[ ] A carving set
[ ] Warm plates