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

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

Not being funny but when you think of the resources that have gone into breeding, incubating, rearing, feeding, housing and looking after the animal for it's life, slaughtering, butchering it, packing it, and transporting it, £6.68 still seems on the low side to me.

^ this. An entire life, and all the feed, care, and other costs associated with turning this life into meat for less than the cost of a couple of coffees in Starbucks. I do like a bit of chicken myself, but can only bring myself to eat an ethically reared chicken and make sure I don’t waste any of it. I’m appalled that people think they should be able to get a chicken for a couple of quid.

I agree. I'd rather go without than support low welfare food production, and often do.

We tend to buy one decent, ethically raised chicken every three weeks or so, and make stock, use the trimmings etc.

Food prices are ridiculous, I went to grab a box of Kelloggs crunchy nut cornflakes in Tesco as DD was craving a bowl, £3.30! She had to have the Tesco version as I'm not paying that for a box of cereal 😂

Completely agree. I’m an ex-vegetarian (sober now for 10yrs), but I can’t fathom spending that little on a chicken. What’s the point? I’d prefer to do like you do and spend more as a treat. If it’s just for bulking out something there are so many more options. I’d imagine it would taste crap too! If it’s just for texture, the fake chicken tastes better and is cheaper than that.

Yes - the Vegetarian Butcher 'chicken' is pretty fab. There are so many alternatives now.

Did the same for a new leather watch strap. Their cheapest was £18. Went to the watch lady in the market and it was a fiver........

Time to go vegan.

I think that's the price when Timpson's will replace the battery free of charge for life.

I agree, as veggie am probably out of touch but that price seems reasonable to me.

Quorn Roast = £3.50

Bananas should be dearer too

Not much in the way of employment standards in Guatemala

Agree with some of the PP: six quid for a chicken is obscenely cheap and you probably don’t want to know how the costs were kept down.

Waitrose, lovely 1.5 kg brined chickens have been half price all month, so £3.37 - last day today 24th.

I keep chickens. I have 4 of them. A £12 bag of feed lasts about 4-5 weeks. Meat chickens are usually killed at about 16 weeks old. That means it costs £12 in feed just to raise one chicken to slaughter age, without taking into account other overheads farmers might have. Of course there are economies of scale - but the chicken feed I buy has doubled in cost since I got my hens in 2020.

Chicken has been too cheap for too long.

Seems reasonable tbh

Yes I genuinely think £3.50-£4 would be too low? They've had all that bird flu to contend with too.

I’ve started using quorn pieces in curries, etc because of the price of chicken

It cost the chicken more.

Do some research on how Timposins treat their staff. It shows you how much we SHOULD be paying for things. Plus they will replace that battery for free from now on - for life.

Tell you what did surprise me recently, £4.50 for a little cardboard roll of plain skinny black hair bobbles. Last time I went I think they were £2 each and it was buy two, get third free - that was only about a year ago. So more than doubled in price and no offer

Seems cheap. I think the cheapest supermarket chickens here are about €8.50.
Usually we pay €10-15 for a small/ medium sized. I’m always astounded how cheap food is still when we go back to England.

In western Canada; an average whole chicken costs the equivalent of 8.50 GPB, so you are getting very inexpensive meat. The rotisserie chickens are about 7.80 GBP, but they are very salty and not good for you, so we don't buy them.

Me too. Not to mention that's an animals life you're talking about.

you think it's not worth £6?

an animal was killed for your dining pleasure & it not worth £6 to you??

^^ @ssd & others, not @Astralitzia

I think chicken like milk was far too cheap for too long and what we are beginning to see is it slowly reaching a more realistic price point.