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£8.10 on a flipping chicken!

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mnahmnah · 13/08/2023 15:39

Went to Lidl yesterday to spend as little as possible on a small shop to get us through the weekend. Needed a chicken for Sunday dinner and as a vegetarian I didn’t want to hang around looking at them all. I was sure I picked one from the shelf labelled as £3.75. DM has just informed me that it was a free range fancy chicken costing £8.10 on the label! Already in the oven. It had better be a bloody gorgeous chicken for the people eating it! I don’t even benefit!

What’s been your most costly shopping mistake? Make me feel less stupid please!

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FinallyPeakedNow · 13/08/2023 15:41

I often spend £12 on a chicken. It's a chicken FFS

CremeEggThief · 13/08/2023 15:44

I'm a vegetarian too and the way I would look at this is it's really not much for the life of an animal, so I can't really relate to your way of thinking.

LAlD · 13/08/2023 15:45

As per the vegetarian above. What is an animals' life worth to you? Me, as a vegan, I'd never buy an animal's corpse.

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Mrstwiddle · 13/08/2023 15:47

For a whole chicken that's incredibly cheap - particularly if it's organic.

Poblano · 13/08/2023 15:47

I've currently got a chicken in the oven, it cost around £14. It isn't particularly fancy, but it is free range. I try to avoid buying non-free range chicken.

NoSquirrels · 13/08/2023 15:48

That’s the regular chicken we buy. I won’t buy battery-farmed chicken.

But to answer your question, my DH regularly buys things that cost vast amounts of money for very little in a supermarket. He’s the king of being sent for eggs or milk and coming back with the expensive maple syrup collected at full moon, or the special variety of ludicrously expensive cheese.

Mrstwiddle · 13/08/2023 15:48

Sorry, just realized it's free-range, not organic, still think it's very cheap and at least the chickens got to have something of a life...

BCBird · 13/08/2023 15:48

We have got too used to cheap meat- not good really. I used to buy the free range chickens and have noticed they have shot up in price,like everything else.

bluechilli47 · 13/08/2023 15:48

Surely you'd rather spend £8.10 on a free range chicken than £4 on a cramped footless chicken factory one.

bellac11 · 13/08/2023 15:49

NoSquirrels · 13/08/2023 15:48

That’s the regular chicken we buy. I won’t buy battery-farmed chicken.

But to answer your question, my DH regularly buys things that cost vast amounts of money for very little in a supermarket. He’s the king of being sent for eggs or milk and coming back with the expensive maple syrup collected at full moon, or the special variety of ludicrously expensive cheese.

My OH is like this. He says 'it was on offer'

I have told him over and over not to buy from the end of aisle promotions, they are NEVER cheaper than the bog standard own brand

GoodVibesHere · 13/08/2023 15:50

It'll feed your family for weeks

Sammysquiz · 13/08/2023 15:51

£3.75 for a chicken is disgraceful. Think of the type of life it had for it to be sold so cheaply.

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mnahmnah · 13/08/2023 15:51

Ok. Meant to be lighthearted. Apparently it is a cheap chicken, even though I have never seen one cost more than £5 in your standard supermarket. This is chat. Not AIBU, but apparently I am very unfair. Never mind.

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buzzlightyearsgloves · 13/08/2023 15:52

That's cheap, Even in Asda the normal cook in the bag ones are about £6.50 now and you barely get any meat on them.

PurpleSteak · 13/08/2023 15:55

That's a whole animal. Surely as a vegetarian you'd think an animal is worth at least £8?!

DuesToTheDirt · 13/08/2023 15:57

PurpleSteak · 13/08/2023 15:55

That's a whole animal. Surely as a vegetarian you'd think an animal is worth at least £8?!

I came on here to say the same, but didn't expect so much agreement on this.

LocoCocoa · 13/08/2023 15:58

Price of everything is up just now, dp does the main food shop so I'm always shocked when I do go to the supermarket, meat particularly! Hit the jackpot the other day and got a whole chicken and 2 decent sized steaks for less than £4 in the asda reduced section.

CremeEggThief · 13/08/2023 15:58

How can there be anything light-hearted about the life of an animal.😥

You should have used the opportunity to make them an amazing vegetarian meal in my honest opinion. You could have got some amazing good quality organic veg for £8, so why did you even pander to the meat-eaters?

Thatladdo · 13/08/2023 15:59

Sounds like great value, provided it can actualy do flips.

Pandaflop · 13/08/2023 16:00

If you don't ever buy chicken can see why you didn't notice, whilst some say on the shelf edge label some say what the price is per kg and then the actual price is on the label; not something you'd know to check! Overall meat is cheap here, aside from the animals who of course are there are others being exploited somewhere in the supply chain.

FannythePinkFlamingo · 13/08/2023 16:01

I regularly spend upwards of £10 on a free range chicken. I'd say £8.10 is a bargain.

Florin · 13/08/2023 16:02

Flipping hell £8 for a whole chicken is crazy cheap. We only buy meat from our trusted butcher, the chickens are large normally the best part of 2kg and feed us for many meals but they cost us £18 each. £3.75 for an entire animal is hideous.

loislovesstewie · 13/08/2023 16:02

If you think that is expensive try buying a leg of lamb! You'll need to remortgage for that.

Remmy123 · 13/08/2023 16:02

I swear there is so much false prices I bought 3 items in Sainsbury’s got to pay and the prices were almost triple what they advertised for.

I went to another shop today and the same thing happened.

FuckYouEzekiel · 13/08/2023 16:03

We import 80,000 tons of chicken from Thailand every year. That keeps the price down.