£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!

£8.10 isn't bad for a free range chicken. As a vegetarian you would maybe prioritise animal welfare so free range might be your choice anyway?

I buy FR if at all possible.

I've seen them at farm shops not far from me at £36 !!!!

I'm not a vegetarian but if the chicken has had a good life, reared from a chick on good food with space to roam and be free, then it should cost about that.

Our major fails have normally been cheese.

You know, the sort of extra stinky, soft with rind, that's been rinsed in unicorn tears and aged in caves lined with angel feathers. Only 200g and £millions. And you get it out to warm to room temperature 3 hours before eating, have to leave all the windows open to disperse the smell, the neighbours call the cops cause the whole street smells like you're slow roasting decomposing manure. No matter how much you have the right bread, the right wine, the right fruit compote to go with it it's a complete disaster. One taste, we look at each other and take the cheese back to the kitchen triple wrap it in plastic and drop it into a someone's bin 4 doors down.

And then go home and have the value brand tinned beans on toasted white bread. (and drink all the wine from the big beer mugs)

You should try shopping in Waitrose. A free range chicken cannot be found for under £16.

I'd snap up a dozen of them at £8.

I'll jump in.....£8 is a lot for a chicken especially with the cost of living crisis. But I am sure it will be a delicious chicken. I always feel bad eating chicken legs on the cheap ethically. I can understand your shock and I would be too but just think of the better quality

£8.10 for the life of an animal. A lot of that is profit, so say £3 has been spent on it's poor life, hatching, food, water, shed heating, drugs they give them, transport, slaughter, packing, haulage, everything. AND YOU ARE WHINING ABOUT £8.10???
I would pay NOT to kill it.
Honestly, people like you sicken me.

I find it bizarre that, as a vegetarian, you wouldn't want to get higher-welfare meat when you buy it for your family.

I'm veggie and there's no fucking way I'd buy battery chicken (in the event that I did have to buy chicken for some reason obvs). I'd economise elsewhere to save money, on something that doesn't involve cruelty to animals.

I've got a free range chicken in the oven, it was from Sainsbury's Taste the Difference range and it was £8 something, under £9 anyway so I don't think £8.10 from Lidl is cheap.

Going back to the point of the OP, I picked up what I thought was a 99 p watermelon in lidl from a box next to the end of aisle cheap veg offers.

When it was rang up at £3.50, I realised it was 99 p a kilo and didn't buy it as I didn't want it that much.

Leg of lamb is another one to watch out for when the price per kilo sticker is a lot bigger and brighter than the price of the whole leg, which is often £20+

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Especially if accompanied by a MASSIVE salad!

Nothing to do with chickens or any food actually, but I once paid for the family to do the pottery painting at center parcs and thought that the price I'd paid was for the whole thing, pottery included. So, when we were choosing our items to paint I picked the biggest unicorn I could find and I was wondering why all these other people around me were choosing really small ones. I was thinking (and saying to the family) 'come on, grab a biggun, fill yer boots!'

Anyway, skip to the end and at the til paying for four massive (badly painted) pottery animals........'that'll be £500 please'

It wasn't £500, but it was ages ago and I can't remember.......

I bought a chicken for £8 the other day.

Are chickens still free range since the outbreak of bird flu?

Just curious.

It would have said on the till when scanned that it was £8 surely?

Don't be silly.

@mnahmnah

That's a decent price. I was paying a fiver for a modest sized chicken in Asda and Tesco, and about 15% more in Morrisons and Sainsburys, some 5 years ago, before cost of living crisis/war in Ukraine/Brexit/the pandemic etc....

Eight quid is good! AND I can make 15 meals out of it.

She IS being silly. More like months than weeks. 😆

Especially if you remember to boil the bones to make everlasting stock!

It was quite recently on holiday. We went to the local large Carrefour and bought what we thought were lovely fresh, local prawns for x euros per kilo. Turns out it was x euros per prawn. We spent £47 euros on fucking prawns!

It won't be free range if it cost £5.

It’s a lot of money but the way I look at it, it will have probably had a better life and you won’t waste any of it. I’d rather pay more for a smaller amount of something of a much better quality I appreciate. A tiny piece of blue cheese from a local creamery or a bigger block, source unknown, where half will get binned because I can’t eat it all.

Hmmmmm roast chicken with crispy skin 😋 😍 👌

Probably was 5 years ago?

Chickens raised for meat suffer horribly, the whole process is a life of misery and suffering, it’s inhumane. If you choose to eat meat, buying local and free range makes a difference to their existence.

https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/blogs/10-things-you-should-know-about-factory-farmed-meat-chickens

Will last til Christmas if you buy one now!