Just remember when my children were children years ago and we were very hard up, we always had a chicken on Sunday and again on Monday, then I would take the little bits of meat off the bones to make poultryman's pie for Tuesday and boil up the carcass. After that I would add any left over veg and boil it all up every day. On Saturday, our dinner (as in main meal) was a big bowl of soup, which was pretty thick by then, grated cheese over the top and crusty bread. It was the meal that no one ever complained about other than my daughter who is vegetarian and has been since she was five.