One Rotisserie Chicken, Five THM Lunches

2K Shares

Stretch your budget and minimize your time in the kitchen by taking one rotisserie chicken and stretching it into five Trim Healthy Mama lunches.

Since you don’t have to cook your protein, these come together fast, great for a Drive Thru Sue.

(Affiliate links are used in this post. A small commission may be paid to me at no extra cost to you and that helps to support this page. Please see my disclosures page for additional information.)

Trim Healthy Mama is great but there is too much cooking and dish washing!! Ever felt like that before? Spoiler alert: it’s not true but it can feel that way!

Eating on the THM plan can feel overwhelming but with a little strategy it can be easy and become second nature to you.

Find out how to stretch one rotisserie chicken into five THM lunches that are easy to prepare. These meals will leave you feeling satisfied and happy that most can be prepped and served in just a few minutes!

Turn One Rotisserie Chicken Into Five THM Lunches

Rotisserie chickens are one of the few convenience foods at the grocery store that are a pretty good value for the money. By dividing that one rotisserie chicken into five THM lunches, you can feed yourself for much less than you would spend at a drive through.

Carve The Rotisserie Chicken

Since some of these meals are E and some are S, we want to keep the white and dark meat separate so that we don’t end up with a XO.

Simply carve your rotisserie up with a sharp knife. I usually pull the skin off and carve the breasts first. Then, the chicken should be tender enough that you can gently pull at the thighs and legs and they should pull right off.

For the dark meat of the legs, thighs and wings, I just pull it off with my fingers since it doesn’t carve up as nicely as the breasts do.

Store the breasts in one container and the rest of the meat in another container.

Take those bones and skin and make some yummy Instant Pot chicken broth before you discard! By doing this you are stretching that rotisserie chicken cost even further. Of course, if you are a Drive Thru Sue, just throw those chicken bones in the garbage and move on with your life!

Five Trim Healthy Mama Lunch Ideas

Now that your chicken is ready to use, your lunches are going to come together even quicker. Some of these ideas you could meal prep ahead of time but they come together quickly enough that I usually just prep it at the time that I want to eat.

Buffalo Chicken Wrap

S Meal: Warm a portion of the dark meat. Toss with Buffalo Sauce. Place the buffalo chicken in the center of a low carb tortilla or wrap, add chopped romaine, shredded cheese, and ranch. Roll up and slice down the middle.

Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad

S Meal: Slice a portion of the dark meat and warm if desired. Pile the chicken, shredded cheese, about 1/3 a cup of Dreamfield’s Penned Pasta and a handful of grape tomatoes on top of a large bed of chopped romaine. Add an on plan Caesar dressing.

Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwich

E Meal: Shred about 3/4 of a chicken breast. Warm the chicken and toss with an on plan BBQ sauce. Serve on two pieces of toasted sprouted bread.

Chicken Salad Sandwich

E Meal: Chop about 3/4 of a chicken breast. Dice a stalk of celery and add it to the chicken. Chop a small handful of grapes. Add non-fat greek yogurt to taste and mix well. You can also add a small amount of mayo to make this taste a bit more like traditional chicken salad. Just make sure that you don’t go over the allowed fat for an E meal. Serve on Sprouted bread.

S Meal: To make this an S meal, sub some pecans or walnuts in place of the grapes and use mayo for the base in place of yogurt. Instead of serving it on sprouted bread, try it in a lettuce wrap or a scoop on top of a bed of salad greens.