Personally, I buy the 10 lb bag of leg-and-thigh quarters. They're currently running US$6.37 + tax in my patch of the prairie. That works out to 63 cents/pound. I can do ALL sorts of things with those. They come with part of the backbone attached, so I will usually cut that off and save for stock, as well as poach the pieces, pick the meat off, and reserve the bones for stock. I'll even use the broth I get from poaching, in addition to my homemade concentrated stock.
Every now and then I will get a bag of frozen BS Chicken Breasts, as PeppA really likes them. I moan and groan about the cost every time. I can do a lot of nice things with them, but prefer to use legs and thighs.
I used to roast whole chickens. Then, the kids started getting bigger, and a 7 lb bird just wasn't big enough for us. A couple years ago, I would roast two chickens at the same time to have enough. However, the kids have kept on getting bigger, and so have their bellies. Now, if I want to roast a bird, I have to go to a turkey. I only roast Turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I have thought about smoking a whole turkey, just never got a round to it.
BTW, CharlieD, I've been using this as my signature here on this board since I joined in 2003. I've been using the same quote as my signature on my hotmail account for 11 years.