£8.10 on a flipping chicken!

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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!

Same and I always call it that. I got lashed for telling my children that chicken is a dead animal...erm, it is a dead animal...

I also think that’s a good price and would not buy a chicken for 3 or 4 quid. And I’m a carnivore. Ensuring the animals are kept in good conditions and correctly slaughtered, is important.

are you veggie for reasons other than animal care?

@Ickystickystickystickybubblegum I shop at Waitrose and M&S and def not sanctimonious - it all comes down to budget at end of day- I've had spells in life shopping at iceland and Aldi . I have no issue if anyone wants to be vegan but do wish they wouldn't try and ram it down other folks throats (literally) -

I once bought DH a scotch egg and when I saw the receipt it was £5!

Are you kidding? I pay £17-25 for a whole chicken. I go to an independent butcher who gets them from a local farm, well raised, in good conditions.

I'd never pay for a cheap chicken from a supermarket who has probably lived a horrible life in awful conditions.

And make the stock into a delicious soup by “bulking it out with lentils”. Not forgetting the huge basket of crusty bread 🤣

I buy a whole chicken from Tesco for £4.75. It’s about 1.7kg. I would think £8 is a lot for a chicken and definitely couldn’t justify £20. Some of us can’t afford butchers, m and s or Waitrose prices.

Do you want a medal? Aren't you just the BEST. Better than everyone else.

The poster is allowed to state that they pay for higher welfare children without saying she is better than everyone else. Someone who is conscious about the ethics behind their food isn’t a bad thing.

If you care about animal welfare I'm surprised you don't normally pick a free range chicken.

Why is she posting then, if not to sneer at the poors for being so terribly cruel to the chickens.

Gold star award

Well OP, in the spirit of what you originally asked:

I was once on the type of holiday which includes a contribution to a meal at a fancy restaurant.

The contribution amount was actually good and covered a main course each, but of course we also had starters, desserts, wine and pre dinner drinks. At the end of the meal the staff brought around a liqueur trolley. Husband did not partake, DS did. I chose one from a bottle that caught my eye. Owwwww madam, what a good choice exclaimed the waiter. It was a good choice too, one of the toppermost, most delicious, most memorable after dinner drinks I have ever enjoyed.

Memorable for both its delightfulness and the fact that one glass cost more than everything else above the contribution amount put together. Also memorable because I am reminded of my financial faux pas by my family when they are in high spirits.

I hope the chicken is super tasty OP, just like my expensive drink of shame.

That’s cheap. I don’t buy a whole chicken often but we buy free range - would be £16-18 but I do that perhaps once a month or every 5-6 weeks.

I think cheap cheap chickens eg £5 means a terrible life for the animal

😭 it wasn't until I went home I realised I spent £6 on a watermelon from Lidl the other day. It was priced per kg and I didn't read the sign properly.

There a loads of light-heated threads on MN

But some subjects are a bit tricky to make light of - such as a preference for eating battery-farmed meat

Exactly, if people could see what they are getting for their money…..it’s cruel and disgusting. If you are paying less than £12 for a chicken, then you have to wonder what life it had.

Cheap chicken isn’t a good idea. We eat it less frequently to spend more on it.

Because the poster is conscious about paying a price to reflect quality and welfare. My friend buys local free-range and eats meat once a week, as that’s all she can budget for, she could choose to eat cheaper meat more often but she prefers to cut down and buy better quality. She herself said the meat is much better in taste and quality and worth the compromise.

This.
Space and freedom to move around means lead are crammed in.

I buy chicken breats for dog sometimes {She's my only luxury} and always go for welfare assured ones AFTER buying a budget option and seeing fractured bone in the chicken's leg.

Probably done post~ mortem, but was so upsetting that I never bought cheap chicken thighs again.

A relative used to run a free range chicken smallholding- they looked very contented and healthy, scratching around outside in the grass , making that lovely crooning sound.

Edit : ''Less'' not lead. {Predictive}

Massive taste difference in free range chickens compared to battery or non free range birds.
Also, far less ''water'' runs out of them when roasting.

Uncalled for. They were simply saying how much they spend

This :( so sad

That's what I do. Treat it like beef.