£8.10 on a flipping chicken!

[mnahmnah]

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!

Because cheap pulses and lentils do not involve innocent chickens, that's why. That's not hard to understand.

No just slave labour of innocent humans

Like h&m. Primark..

But animals do not have a choice.

Humans can at least try to better themselves. Animals have no choice.

My DH on our honeymoon spent £10 on a coconut because he'd not done the exchange rate right in his head. He thought he was paying £1.

Ironically the shop just off the beach sold them for 50p...

The price of chicken has gone through the roof, I think it’s around £6.50 now for a standard chicken, used to be about £4 so it wasn’t that much more than the average. This is why I don’t tend to eat roast dinners anymore, not to mention the amount it costs to have the oven on for that length of time 😂😂

The Starbucks example is irrelevant. That's like saying that a Ferrari is not expensive because a London flat costs more.

No-one is paying £3.75 for a chicken anyway, the OP made a mistake which, people seem to have forgotten, is what the thread is about.

OP don't you wish you'd accidentally paid a fiver for a watermelon instead?

But the whole point is that why takeaway drinks can cost more than chicken.
It's not irrelevant at all.
Why do people (in general) think it's ok to pay over £5 for a Starbucks drink for example, but complain when a chicken costs a bit more & can feed a family for several days.

That’s cheap for a properly reared chicken. If you want to shop ethically and have the means then do so. But understand the difference between protein and properly reared meat.

Ok that's fine - never said it wasn't.

Personally I don't think they should be producing chicken that cheap. I don't moan that I can't eat sushi and caviar every day

As an aboriginal Canadian I’m offended by people acting like eating animal is bad. But especially those justifying the manufacture of ultra processed food like Beyond Burgers which are terrible for health and environment. Research the harm veganism does to the environment. There’s plenty. Humans have been eating meat and treating animals responsibly for a long time. Personally I think Lidl is has a lot of ethical issues.

I'm sure it wouldn't feel any better at a cost for £10.

Cats are obligate carnivores, they have no choice but to eat meat, humans do, there’s a difference.

Most humans don’t need meat but actually there are some who cannot eat a solely vegetarian diet, due to surgery and medical need.

Once ordered fresh Brussels sprouts on line. Thought they were reasonably priced pretty but not cheap. When they arrived turned out they were a very expensive snack size pack (I hadn’t checked the weight and just assumed they were a regular pack). I never even knew snacking on raw Brussels was a thing …

Let my 3 year old help me with the scan as you go thing, all fine I was listening to the beeps to make sure she was scanning stuff right…didn’t realise she was pressing the + on screen and doubling quantities of things! About £30 down and couldn’t prove I didn’t have those things once I got home and realised

Rotisserie cooked chicken £4.99 with clubcard advertised at my Morrisons this week!

Loss leader I'd imagine.

But was It a mumsnet chicken? That could feed a family of four for six days?

Vegan diets offer the greatest potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse emissions might be decreased by 35% by replacing half of all animal-based meals with vegan diets. Even switching one animal product, would have a significant impact on climate goals.
A growing body of research underlines how cutting meat and dairy products can help better protect the planet from climate change and pollution. Another 2023 study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, concluded that vegan diets are the least environmentally damaging diet.

Im baffled at your naivety and your comment that humans have been treating animals responsibly for a long time, that is a complete and utter lie and far from the truth.

Well said 👌🏾

I am a low income but would much rather do without meat than buy a chicken for under £4, ethically as a vegetarian does it not bother you that the chicken you’re buying would have had the worst welfare?
Not even when I was a student did I buy low welfare chicken tbh, as a nation we shouldn’t be aiming for this if we claim to care at all about what we eat and ethics/welfare. And we should care about that!

Im baffled by the arrogance and lack of knowledge. Veganism is not sustainable.
in a fairy tale world it seems sensible but it is not realistic. Nor is telling the world not to eat meat or use animal products. Sustainability is another story. Getting people to stop wasting and using all animal parts… Stop using synthetic non biodegradable materials. Stop promoting ultra processed foods. Stop rhe excessive use of gums and crap added to fake mylks. Stop promoting almond milk when it erodes water supply in a draught-impacted environment.

Do some actual research and research who funds the research.

Never buy chicken from Lidl, filmed evidence of their suppliers raising animals in cruel, inhumane and unethical ways. Check out Frankenchickens on any social media platform.

What have I just read??

Are you really saying that human slavery is a choice and kinda their own fault?

This thread has it all.

Bet you wish you'd never posted @mnahmnah

Why are you twisting my words? Humans can at least try to better themselves is what I said.

The point I'm trying to make is that animals never have a choice. They don't have a voice.

Just did some 'research' (googling) and found that almost every article knocking veganism starts like this:

“Nothing really compares to beef, lamb, pork, and dairy – these products are in a league of their own in the level of damage they typically do to the environment, on almost every environmental issue we track,” says Joseph Poore, a researcher at the University of Oxford who studies the environmental impacts of food."

Then they go on to say that actually avocados are quite bad etc, almonds too. But overall, feeding plants directly to humans rather than feeding them to animals until they are big enough to slaughter seems sensible, and common sense? That if you simply eat the plants instead of rearing the animals then you would need fewer plants, and the environmental impact is much smaller.

I also noted that most of the articles knocking veganism are by meat producers, farming companies, and those with an interest in the meat or dairy business. So, do point out the Big Fruit funding cos I can't see it.