@coopdawg: I almost always buy chicken thighs, that’s my fav and still the second cheapest part (chicken frame is dirt cheap, I buy it for soups but I start to fed up with all the tiny bones… the cats are happy though. chicken frame is significantly cheaper than any cat food. its cost is negligible, really. I only buy it rarely due to the work with it. yeah I could just get off the big meats and give the rest to the cats… but I don’t need soup so often despite being a Hungarian who grew up eating soup every day, often multiple times)… And my chicken isn’t dry, why would it be. Only the breast is dry but I don’t eat that (it’s edible when moist but still way too lean, yuck, a waste on me! my SO loves lean meat so he gets it).
But when I see a cheap whole chicken, I can’t help but get ideas. Like roasting a whole chicken. And then I get chickened out… Without eating it…
I will consume it eventually 
Whole chicken is great value, okay the wings are a bit useless (at least the end joint but I have cats) but it has the glorious thighs, my SO loves the breasts and I can make a good soup from the rest (and pork) though a hen is better than a young chicken for it.
I am sure I need some sauce-y chicken dish. I played with roasted thighs now and then, some tandoori masala helps but it’s not THAT great, after all. Not very tasty supermarket chicken needs something better. Stew is always an option but it’s messy with small animals and their many bones.
You made me think with your mushrooms, I still have a few jars of forest mushroom…
I tried to eat this for lunch. And I couldn’t eat it ALL DAY… I ate some other things but not so much. Rare but happens. Yesterday I ate about 1000 kcal more so it’s fine.
All pork (the bigger meatballs contain bacon).
Sounds good, I love lemon (and paprika. can I use sour cream? surely I can. I LOVE sour cream too, basic in Hungarian cuisine, even in my abnormal one). I heroically try to make the skin crispy in the oven. I kinda give it up after 2 hours and separate them 
Okay, sometimes it’s a bit crispy… And I always use Tandoori Masala for chicken (I am a fan of tandoori masala. I used paprika before. paprika is great. once I got paprika from New Zealand, that wasn’t so good. I can buy perfectly good inexpensive paprika in any little supermarket here in Hungary but it seems it’s harder in Australia… so I send paprika to my Australian friend). But I make chicken very rarely, didn’t need variety yet. I am not good at marinades and rubs and sauces, I was a vegetarian or almost but my 3 meat dishes per year wasn’t at home… And now I just roast or fry and little else. But I should keep myself bored… Even when I am happy with simple food, I want to COOK. My carnivore meat dishes requires little cooking, I just toss the meat into a pan or oven pan with some salt, usually. Except when I make meatballs (paprika is heavily used. if I remember how much is needed. my photo contains meatballs with too little paprika. they aren’t red, after all) or my currently very rare stews. Stews are great. Tiny onion, lots of paprika, little lard and much meat… Some put other things into it too, usually tomato and capsicum (I don’t know if there is an English name for what we use). But I don’t, I make the basic Hungarian stew. And the meat can be replaced by zillion other things, we make stew from nearly everything. Egg stew is nice but that needs some tasty wet ingredient, tomato puree and sour cream is typical (just one of them ;)). And I think I can’t minimize the onion as much as in my meat stew. Our meat stew barely contains any at this point. Onion is too sweet for me and my SO doesn’t complain.
(But then I would eat more chicken and I don’t like chicken so much… It needs more work than pork as I need to put flavor into it. And it never gets tasty as it’s not how things work, meat flavor must be there to begin with. But it gets a tad more enjoyable.)
