£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!

U.K. animals are given antibiotics - why would you let an animal suffer with an infection when there is treatment available! They aren’t readily prescribed but like humans why would you not take antibiotics if it was going to make you better! Hormones are not used in the U.K.!

The chicken in the U.K. KFC’s is British chicken.

Yes to treat a particular infection or break out, Im referring to the narrative that animals in UK farms are routinely given anti biotics all through their lives. I understand that most UK supermarkets dont use farms that do this. I think in america its quite widespread

As you say hormones are not used yet it keeps being said that they are, including on this thread.

We don't give animals hormones. We do give antibiotics if an animal is ill. There are strict withdrawal periods. antibiotics are expensive

I often spend 12-15 on a good chicken. Just eat less meat.

So is the £8 Lidl free range chicken that the OP is being berated for.

We've had competitive over and under eating and the number of meals that people can get from a chicken. Now we have competitive 'My chicken cost more than your chicken', so do we have any advance on £25?

The answer to food poverty isn't to make animals suffer more. It's to pay the poor enough so they can eat well.

I can protest both animal welfare and food poverty. You'll find those who hold animal life cheap probably aren't all that concerned about humans either. But it's handy to seem concerned about the poor if you want to justify your own choices to eat shit meat.

Someone is telling porky pies then,

How patronising and offensive.

I have done anti poverty work in my community for years and people were delighted that the food pantry provided boxes to make Xmas dinner and they contained a fresh cheap chicken.

When I was very poor myself a chicken was one of my best buys. I could roast it one days and then use the meat for other meals or sandwiches/ toasties. I also always boiled the bones for stock which makes excellent food.

@Gingerkittykat

a chicken was one of my best buys. I could roast it one days and then use the meat for other meals or sandwiches/ toasties. I also always boiled the bones for stock which makes excellent food.

@PensAndPapers oo-er 😬

I've seen it too.

I had threads on here in one of my old names about what I did with a gammon joint/brisket/chicken to get the most out of them.
I don't cook like that now because its just me at home and I don't need to.

Nobody NEEDS to eat meat
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Agree wholeheartedly, morally it’s wrong to make one suffer to benefit the other. Free from suffering should be the bare minimum that all species have the right to.

I often wonder on threads like this would the people shouting about the value of a life squash a spider? or put down poison for rats and mice? Does it only count if the animal is cute?

That's pretty funny actually...you'll notice that I do not mention the frequency. I last had fish and chips over 3 years ago. I very very rarely eat from a chippy because deep fried food doesn't agree with me. The last Chinese take away I had was over a year ago and I cannot remember how long ago the last Indian was.

I was talking generally in terms of whenever I have eaten takeaways, which is actually very rarely, hence why I said "don't usually get takeaways", because it's so rare that it's unusual.

Is that ok for you? In fact, just remembering, the last Indian I had was before covid-19 and that wasn't a takeaway, it was dining in. Prior to that, the last Indian before that was when I was actually in India, again, not a takeaway, in restaurants there.

I was the poor.
I was the heat or eat family, and even then, just 15urs ago there were no food banks.
You'd really put a chicken over the warmth of your kids, excellent, I didn't.
One year a Mumsnetter sent me school shoes ffs, the ones with the dolls in the heels that all the little girls wanted that were so far out of my reach.
Don't dare lecture me on something you haven't lived, and don't dare tell me what to care about or what to spend on anything.
I make choices now because for a lot of years I had very few, and I know many, some on here who were in similar situations.

I don't squash spiders. I don't kill flies or wasps. We had mice in the house and I tried humane traps for a good while with no success, before resorting to poison (they didn't eat it anyway). We did spray against carpet moths.

Will that do you?

even then, just 15urs ago there were no food banks.

Yes, there were.

No, there weren't where I live.

Same.

I don't think that's true. I care about human life. I'm a human. 😁

It's possible to care about yourself as a human without giving a shit about any others!

If you don't care about animals, which do have feelings and emotions, why would you care about a human that isn't you (or your kids)?

I agree that not giving a shit about others is usually a pattern of behaviour, not just reserved for animals.