Get ready to put some Make-Ahead Chicken Bacon Sandwiches into your fridge or freezer for easy meals!
Last week, Justus had brought over a turkey he’d picked up for super cheap but didn’t have freezer space for storage.
Freezer space or not, it’s hard to pass up meat for $0.58/pound!!
I decided to get it baked and out of the way. Matt spent some time getting all the meat off the bone after we got the kids to bed, and the next day I woke up to a huge pan of cooked turkey and a bag of bones to make broth. How many meals can we get with Justus’ $8.75 investment? SO.MANY.MEALS.
I bagged up and froze some of the meat into meal-sized portions for them to take home and use on busy days. I made broth and then Turkey Noodle Soup for our family to enjoy that evening. Then I used a lot of the cooked turkey along with some cooked bacon to put together a lot of sandwiches for all of us to have on hand for easy grab-and-go meals.
While the title of this post lists Chicken as a main ingredient, clearly Turkey and Chicken can be used interchangeably. Use whatever you have. Do you have leftover turkey? Turn it into these sandwiches. Do you have leftover chicken – maybe even Rotisserie chicken? Turn it into these sandwiches. They go together easily, rewarm easily, and can we go wrong with a combination of turkey/chicken, bacon, and cheese? We cannot. These are fantastic!
Make-Ahead Chicken Bacon Sandwiches
- Leftover chicken or turkey
- Homemade bacon bits
- Dressing like ranch or honey mustard
- Sliced Cheese
- Buns
- Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and place in a bowl.
- Stir in bacon bits.
- Assemble sandwiches with a scoop of meat mixture, sauce, and a slice of cheese.
- Wrap individually and place in the fridge or freezer to use as needed.
- Warm sandwiches in an air fryer, toaster oven, or the oven to heat through and melt the cheese.
You see there are no exact measurements for these ingredients. This is because you simply use what you have and create these sandwiches the way you like. I had Colby jack cheese and pepper jack cheese on hand so I used that along with ranch and honey mustard to create a nice variety of sandwich choices for all of us.
Some of my girlies helped me and we ended up that day making 25 sandwiches and 5 wraps (because I ran out of buns and moved on to tortillas. :)
This is a great “use what you have” kind of recipe. Nothing goes to waste and you can make sandwiches and wraps according to different preferences!
I just love Matt ?. I man who picks the meat from the bird. Mothers should teach their daughters to marry a man like that.
Take away that question mark. I meant an exclamation point. And an “A” Yay Matt