£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!

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They need more massive salads and fewer massive tellies, those plebs with the pizzas.

Ain't that the truth!

£3.75 is the price for 4 small thigh fillet.
I think there's something really wrong if you think you can buy whole chicken for that price.

Former veggie here and I always try to buy organic chicken on the basis that it’s probably had a better life. They are much more expensive but we just eat them less often.

I'd rather go without than have £5.50 chicken.

If you are cooking a chicken for 90 minutes you do not know how to cook.

Wow real class divide on this thread. I've never in my life spent £8 on a chicken and I doubt I will be anytime soon.

I hope none of you who are berating anyone for buying the cheapest birds, never buy kfc, or takeaway chicken, or chicken nugs for your kids etc,

@Ickystickystickystickybubblegum "Why don't we just ask poor people to eat gruel?"
It is obviously practically impossible, however much you spend, to eat completely ethically unless you grow it all yourself. And even then, there are issues. However, the difference in cost between a battery chicken and a n ethically produced one is spectacularly more than with most other foodstuffs. And while things like quinoa have their ethical issues, they do not involve actual, direct animal cruelty. So not eating battery chicken is a very big step towards a cruelty free diet. And maybe the money saved by not eating chicken could be put towards free range eggs and organic milk. Just a thought.

It’s awful

A £3.75 chicken would be poor quality.

A free range chicken will cost at least £8. Thats what it costs to give them the space to move and some resemblance of quality of life. To pay under £5 for a bird which has been fed crap, housed in a shoe box for 6 weeks before it is slaughter is something I wont be part of.
I only buy free range chicklen. I'd rather have it less often and have veg chilli or a veggie pasta dish to balance out costs. Our meat is bought direct from the butcher. Often he'll do half another pig for £70 or half a lamb for £85. He'll bag it into joints, mince, sausages which go in the freezer. I know where the animal has come from and the life it had.

Wouldn’t bother me I don’t eat the feet.
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I’m vegan, I’ve seen it all. The moment you try and speak/show people the truth you’ll be met with hostility, the truth is people don’t want their morals to be questioned, all they want to see is the neat plastic packaging in the supermarkets, not the process form farm to fork. The miserable lives that billions of animals suffer from each day, the majority of food consumed in the UK is factory farmed, low quality, unethical and the pathogens that are present in farmed animals are an ever growing risk to humans.

Oh and there are the people who say they don’t care how their meat gets on their plate, off course they don’t care because they’re not the ones that have to suffer and it doesn’t directly impact them, it’s easy to switch off to that, cognitive dissonance plays a huge part.

lollll at animals corpse. its soooo yummy. you do not know what you're missing.

@PrimoPiatti I know, I've just eaten one. Delicious- as per my post earlier- bought in error- but very very good!! And we've got at least 2 meals worth left

Suit yourself. I’m not about to give up meat because I can’t afford to purchase from the butchers. Then again, I wouldn’t spend 20 odd quid on a chicken regardless of my income tbh.

Are you suggesting that a single chicken will feed a family for weeks?!?

I never said to give up chicken. Where in my post did I say this?

I would rather have it less often than eat battery farmed chicken which has had a horrible life.

How much is a chicken usually? I don't think I've ever bought a whole chicken

Yeah I don't

Everyone needs to watch this.

Exactly this.
They pretend not to care, maybe they don't care- I personally have no issue with people eating meat or fish IF that animal had a decent standard of welfare and a reasonable life beforehand. I don't eat much if any meat.

'Cheap' meat and fish obviously means far less animal welfare, as many more animals are crammed in together, with all the problems that entails.

The Smallholder's pigs - They are delightful.
But they are being reared for meat. The male calves for beef. These are very friendly animals, testament to their care.

However, he personally knows the slaughter man, and the animals will be slaughtered in a humane a way as possible.

Welfare does matter to ethical farmers.