Homemade Chicken Stock

Whenever whole chickens are on sale I go crazy. Not only are whole chickens yummy, but they are extremely frugal as well. You can always get a crazy amount of chicken, but you get to make homemade stock with the "trash" parts. Or should I say... the "gold" parts! :)

If you have never done it before - it's ok, it's really easy.

Ingredients
Chicken Bones (check out how I cooked the whole chicken HERE)
celery, chopped
carrots, chopped
2 bay leaves
1 tbsp pepper

With the ingredients you can just throw in whatever you might have in your fridge. It is usually items you make a nice soup with.

Directions
Put all of the chicken bones (after the chicken has been completely picked off) and put in the crock pot.
Add about 20 cups of water (try and fill near the top, if you can)
Add in your fridge veggies.
Add in the bay leaves and pepper.
I cook it for a nice 10 hours in the crock pot.
Allow the pot to cool and strain the bones and veggies.

You can freeze chicken bone for up to 1 year and let sit in the fridge for about 3 days.