£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!

Fucking hell, I remember being told all this when my daughter was about 6 and I was scrimping and scraping to feed her.
She's 22 and it's still going on.
Those poors better not dare have anything they don't deserve, oh and must have the ethics for everyone at the same time, whilst being lectured to by people who wouldn't have a clue what it's like.

Back then I cried, now I say fuck that, being poor is shit, it grinds you down, so choke on your £50 golden chicken and I'll make whatever choices I damn well please.

How much is pork? I don't eat it but always see loads of sausages in lidl

Seen it.

Peaches in Poland back in 1990, mis understood the currency, I thought I was paying £1.10; when really it was £11.10. This was when I was earning £4 an hour. I was on a Guide trip and the locals, I gave the extras away to was so grateful, so I am never sad about what I spent, but frustrated about my misunderstanding.

£3.75 for a chicken?

I dread to think how that animal would have lived its life. I wouldn't buy it.

Thanks for the support @RoyalGala , you've nailed the reasons why I pay what I do.

@Ickystickystickystickybubblegum I wasn't sneering or making any digs about "the poors", that's a really horrible thing to say. I just care about animal welfare as Royal Gala pointed out. I also care about eating quality ingredients. That's not a dig at anybody. We very much live within our means and are not well-off.

It's mad, I went to asda the other day and spent £6 on a hoodie for my son and needed butter which was roughly the same price

We don't buy KFC, don't usually get takeaways, my children have never ever eaten chicken nuggets. We make our own chicken goujons from scratch, other than buying the free range chicken breasts from a local butcher, we buy the organic chicken eggs, and mill our own home grown wheat for the flour.

There, does that prove I'm not a hypocrite? I don't know why this is causing such an argument just because I wouldn't buy a chicken that has been so cruelly abused during it's short life in a dirty, overcrowded barn.

If I couldn't afford to buy good quality meat, animals that have been raised in a high standard of living, then I'd go without meat. I do have meat free days as it is expensive for good quality these days and we're not well-off. One of our children is a vegetarian as she doesn't agree with animals being killed for us to eat.

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So many judgemental veggies & vegans on this thread!

This. I'd rather spend a few extra pounds to make sure the poor animal got a bit of fresh air and sunshine in its 30 day life.

90 mins for a large, free range chicken is reasonable.

I picked you organic milk by mistake it was £2.20 instead of £1.65

It's not being judgmental. It's about poor animal welfare & the inhumane way that battery chickens are kept, that's the sad part about cheap chicken.

There are people in this country who can barely afford to eat. There are parents skipping meals so they can give their children some protein for dinner. Not everyone can afford a free range chicken, should they only live on beans?

I may only buy free range meat but that’s because I can afford to support free range farming. Many people can’t afford to.

I'm neither vegan nor veggie- but meat eaters ought to consider the sufferings of the animals that are reared for their consumption.

'Cheaper' chicken is probably rammed with more antibiotics, anti parasitic drugs and hormones than a bird reared with more space and freedom.

Yes there's a lot of privilege showing on this thread and a glaring lack of empathy.

Not everyone has the money and time to buy the highest welfare meat and mill their own flour FFS.

I agree with Typz. I choose the luxury of free range organic meat because I'm lucky enough to have the choice. I would love to live in a society where everyone has that choice but they don't.

As an aside I did return a £17 chicken yo Sainsbury's as it wasn't plucked properly and they said it was 'safe to do this myself' I pointed out it would be 'safe' to slaughter it myself but I wanted that done for me too

I dont think UK animals are given hormones and anti biotics as far as I know

While I understand you didn't want to do it that chicken will have been killed for no reason as they can't resell it.

What's wrong with beans and lentils?

Theres nothing wrong with beans and lentils but for food power packed with protein, chicken (and similar) are much more protein dense

Of course chicken doesnt come with advantages like fibre, and its higher in calories per 100g and its much more expensive per 100g

But in terms of providing enough calories and protein with the right essential amino acids, its probably better 'value' per 100g than beans and lentils

I spread out my protein intake throughout the day using various sources, chicken, tuna, nuts, beans, lentils, tofu and rotat them throughout the week but I would be hard pressed to get enough in without using chicken. Im not even much of a fan of chicken, I prefer red meat but cant really digest that at the moment very well so chicken it is for a while

They are.

Why would I buy a bag of flour that involves taking the time to go to the shop when I can just pick some that I've grown myself and mill it in the same length of time it would take me to go to the supermarket?

Yes, it may sound ridiculous to you that we mill our own flour, but when we have the means to do so, why wouldn't we?

As farmers I wish more people would buy more expensive, locally sourced meat (and other commodities); I hate that people are buying cheap meat from Thailand where the welfare standards are minimal, I would much rather people ate less meat but a better quality. I won’t buy anything that isn’t British - our welfare standards are incredibly high.