A medium chicken out of asda, guess how much??

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

Eh? You are saying that it was only worth paying £3.50 for a full chicken because you managed to turn it into roast dinner AND sandwiches AND soup AND cat dinners? As if £3.50 were outrageous?

What do you think a chicken should cost? 99p?

I love how you're ignoring the massive ethical issues being raised here, including by farmers, and are just desperate to buy the cheapest chicken at whatever cost - and I don't mean cost to your wallet for an extra few quid

I don't think we can get people to think more about animal welfare by shaming them or kicking the OP. Didn't work for PETA.

Oh fgs.

WTF? Humanity and morality, ethical considerations, whatever you want to call it, is not only for rich people and that's so insulting to poorer people, like myself.

There are so many alternatives, reductions, buying local, welfare labels (RSPCA assured), meal planning that mean a family could, with a little bit of thought, still eat chicken that hasn't had quite such a barbaric, so-called ''life'' and educate your children to live in a more ethical and sustainable way, win-win

Why is it insulting

a family likes to have a roast chicken on a Sunday can’t afford to now unless it’s the cheapest and then may still not be able to afford to

your family may like other dishes and at the moment many can only think about how to feed their families and heat their homes as this is a such a struggle for so many

This is why I laugh at comments suggesting that a vegetarian/ vegan diet is somehow elitist. You could buy a fucktonne of chickpeas for the price of that (horribly reared) chicken. Single mum on benefits here, before anyone starts.

I agree that ASDA is awful, though. It's the closest supermarket to DS1's school though, which means we inevitably end up popping in. My journey round the aisles is accompanied by a constant stream of invective about how shite it is. They don't even have decent crisps, FFS. 😱 (not in big bags anyway). Lidl is 100x better.

If the '£6 is cheap for a life' argument is valid then how much should people be prepared to pay for a bag of frozen prawns?

I pay £10-11 for a free-range 2kg chicken from my local butcher.
The quality of the meat & carcass is better than a cheaper supermarket product (excl. organic free range). I get eight meals plus quality stock from that bird.

Minimal transit costs, minimal packaging plastics/gases etc & I keep my expenditure in my local economy - I see & speak with the same folk in the shop.

This works for me.

But others do not have quality butchers, time & enough spare spends to make this work for them. When I have choice & opportunity, I use it.

It’s not just an ethical point of view but the hens are often given hormones and antibiotics to push growth and prevent widespread diseases due to inhumane conditions and those will be present in the cheap meat that humans and children are eating.

I used to get a free range chicken from aldi for about £6-£7.50 and its usually £9 now. The cheaper ones are not what they used to be either. Not sure if it is a Brexit effect.

I just get the biggest one I can so I definitely get two meals out of it. Unless you can find a MN chicken that is....

I get the chicken thighs now if we aren't having a proper roast and they are better than the whole chickens and cheaper.

Has anyone recommended lentils as an alternative yet on this thread?

I am aware of all that Parma

but I am also aware that for many they are constantly worried about feeding their children and keeping a house warm. Food has always been a comfort too it’s simply not on everyone’s list of concerns how the chicken lived and arrived at the supermarket when there are other very pressing issues to worry about

@user1471453601

I know. Daughter went to Timpsons to get the battery changed on my watch. £24:95 🤔.

Timpsons are a fucking rip off. Tried to charge me nearly £300 for a spare car key for my 2015 registered car (when I bought the car in 2019.) An ordinary, second-hand, small, saloon car that cost £5,000.

Trouble is, I don't know anywhere else who cuts keys. There's certainly no-one within 25 miles of me that I know of. So I still have just the one key. If I lose it I will have to deal with it when/if that happens. Like fuck am I paying £300 for a KEY.

People have grown to expect cheap chicken with the use of broiler houses.
Cheapness comes at a price, as we've seen here (including my own posts.)

@HeavenIsAHalfpipe What have keys got to do with the cost of a chicken?

@abigailsnan

£3.50 at Waitrose last Saturday which got me 2 x Sunday Roast dinners, sandwich for Monday lunch stripped for soup for to-day and meals for Oliver my cat for the next 2 days so well worth the money.

BINGO! 😂

HRTQueen

There is cognitive dissonance with cheap chicken if you are looking at it simply as pitting the 'got to feed my family above all else because I love them, at whatever ethical and food standard cost to other people (the farmers and abbatoir workers and shelf stockers with tiny amounts of profit)', against, 'the welfare of chickens' coming second.

Chicken is an easy target. The price of everything is going up. Why should chicken stay at a few measley pounds when a Tesco meal deal, two bags of apples, two bags of salad, is more expensive?

The price of chicken needs a new baseline and consumers need to stop buying it dirt cheap.

They have a chicken working at Timpsons. That's why I mentioned the cost of the key.

FFS........... 🙄

but I am also aware that for many they are constantly worried about feeding their children and keeping a house warm. Food has always been a comfort too it’s simply not on everyone’s list of concerns how the chicken lived and arrived at the supermarket when there are other very pressing issues to worry about

Surely choosing a food that can be pumped full of hormones and drugs IS a pressing issue if you are feeling it to your kids?

You don't have to leave your brain at the supermarket door when you go in.

FFS.

Quite.

This is about chickens.

Maybe start a KEY thread if that's the issue.

As it is my concern, I am not well-off by any means but we meal-plan for the week, buy a chicken that has been locally reared reducing emissions and more ethical and it’s not hugely more expensive, we eat many other non-meat products which taste good and often are nutritionally better.

Kepp up. Timpsons is outside Asda and they put batteries into watches which is a bit like battery chickens and 'key' is a bit like 'turkey' which is like chicken.

@LisaLovedUp Why did you not ask @user1471453601 why she mentioned her daughter's watch battery? That's fuck-all to do with chicken too. Or is it just me you wanted to have a pop at?

😂

Fucking hell. 😂 U K hun? 😩