£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!

I know you said this is a light hearted thread. But honestly £8 for a free range chicken is still a bargain. I, like others, am a bit surprised that you (as a vegetarian) consider “free range” to be “fancy”. Even many meat eaters won’t buy anything less than that; for animal welfare reasons.

Yes I can't see where the lolz are

Think of the chicken and won't you?

If you can afford it buy free range organic chicken.
If you can't- don't buy chicken.

Just wondering, @mnahmnah- if you're a vegetarian, why are you buying chicken? If anyone in your house wants meat they should buy it and cook it themselves.

Local smallholding to me has pigs.
They have loads of room to do piggy things in, and make that contented ''Burpee'' sound.
They are friendly and gorgeous.

For what reason are you vegetarian?

'Glos Old spots living a happy life {here coming to say hello to dog}

A free range organic chicken (2.4kg) will cost around £25.00

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.

I think if you want a lighthearted thread, it's better to pick something lighthearted. E.g. the time my dad was sent to buy a tin opener, my mum thinking he'd get a 50p thing, and he came back with a £15 electric tin opener. This was about 30 years ago. It was an expensive mistake. My mum couldn't operate it. Don't ask me why, it wasn't that difficult, but there were tears and sulks and tantrums about the fucking tin opener. And first power cut we had, none of us could operate it.

That's quite funny. Well not to my mum, or to my dad really, to me and my siblings it was bloody funny. However, the life of a chicken was never really going to be funny. Ask yourself how long you can feed a chicken for on £8 and the life you can give it. Then think about the tens of thousands of chickens rammed into sheds together. Bird flu goes through them in days and they die very slowly and painfully. So no, I don't think anyone thinks that's a case of ha-ha silly mistake.

This is horrible........... An eye opener.

And if you cannot afford to eat high welfare organic eggs, you cannot eat eggs.

If you cannot afford to drink high welfare organic milk, you cannot drink milk.

If you cannot afford high welfare organic beef, you cannot eat beef.

While we are at it, dont think you can be getting your nutrition from quinoa. Because of the impact it has on the communities that rely on it as a staple.

And do not eat any fruit and veggies that are shipped in, because you will be killing the ozone layer.

Why don't we just ask poor people to eat gruel? And you can go on pretending that the £20 chicken had a lovely life with regular spa treatments in a big open field in the cotsworlds and was only killed when it was just about to die anyway.

But their life before being slaughtered is horrific.
'it's only a chicken'

That chicken was a living, breathing animal with fears just like me and you.

Have some compassion.

@mnahmnah

cheap meat means animal welfare is compromised.

That means that no one should be buying cheap meat, including vegetarians. I’m really surprised you are not aware of this.

We have become too used to cheap meat and particularly chicken. At £8 I wonder about the life it's had. I'm vegetarian but DH who is not has refused to eat chicken for probably 15 years because of welfare concerns.

@kitsuneghost

i know right?! Disgusting attitude to have about a living creature

An animal's life is worth more than that.

Yet these people who comment saying it's expensive will probably have no issue spending that amount of money on a takeaway pizza for example.

I love lamb but not had lamb yet this year.
I hate Sunday dinners now.
The next time I will see a leg of lamb will be Xmas.

You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And inside these big sheds are twenty-foot-high chickens, because of all the chemicals you've put in 'em, and these chickens are scared! They don't know why they're so big! They go "Oh, why am I so massive?" And they're looking down at all the other little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small.

Pretty sure the cost of the chicken pails into insignificance compared to the cost of having your oven on for 90 minutes

" expensive maple syrup collected at full moon"

If you don’t agree with the price then don’t buy it. Hit them where it hurts - the pocket.

I suspect mainly to wind up mumsnetters.

I BET THEY HAVE MOBILE PHONES TOO! AND SKY TV CONTRACTS! DISCUSTIN!

👏 Exactly!

Judging by the supermarket fridges I’d say the majority buy their chicken there. I have never, and likely will never, have the funds to spend upwards of £10 on a chicken.
My £5.50 Asda chicken is roasting away quite nicely at the moment and will feed the 4 of us. Perhaps we should just have porridge.