I use the chicken parts with the skin and bones, put them in a pot and add a diced up onion, salt & pepper (to your liking) .
Let it simmer till the meat starts to fall off the bone, then bone the chicken out and add it back to the stock.
Now add some carrots and celery diced up with some chopped garlic. Let this sit and cook together till the veggies get to where you like them, still just simmering.
Now cook a pot of noodles and when about 3/4 of the way done, take them off the heat, drain them and add them to the main pot.
The noodles will continue to cook and soak up the liquid so you will have a thick chicken soup, not like the stuff that comes in cans.
I like to cook the chicken and stuff in an equal mix of chicken broth and water, then when I add the noodles at the last part I add more chicken broth , no water. You can make this as thick as you want or as runny , I like the thick soup.
Chuck.