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

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

The biggest shock recently was paying £5 for Flora Pro-Activ spread. We've bought this for years but no more. Cathedral City cheese has also been dumped, as has Dettol spray. In fact, increasingly, we are switching to own brands and going to cheaper shops because some supermarkets are charging an absolute mint on some things. It's been hard for my husband who loves and believes in brands, but in Sainsburys recently I saw a pack of 4 Heinz Baked Beans for £4 and thought, "Nope".

We've also changed our eating habits too...more beans & pulses, veggie meals, or making meat go further. We are a family of three so we can buy a four pack of something and freeze one, or use two and save two. Recently discovered chicken thighs and oxtail. I mean to buy a slow cooker to use overnight to save fuel.

Mine yesterday was £4.50

£3.50 for a chicken is obscene though. That is a living creature that has been raised, looked after and slaughtered for less than a pint of beer in Wetherspoons.

Intensive farming and exploitative labour has made meat, particualry poultry, too cheap, it wasn't long ago a whole roast chicken was a luxury that people ate rarely.

We need a balance between people being able to afford to eat properly and ensuring animals and people are not exploited and treated poorly.

Picked up posh good sized chicken from Waitrose for £3.50 - they're half price at the mo. Just FYI.

That’s a very cheap expectation

Even at higher price it’s not a lot, agree with pp re it being low to maintain standards

Just a point of interest and comparison, an organic chicken from our butcher costs around £17. It does last the two of us for a couple of days though. (A roast, a salad and a couple of sandwiches say). Supermarket chickens are sold far too cheaply.

@DaisyCornflowerBlue Yes, me too, Heinz beans £4 for 4 cans, in Aldi, my DH said that doesn’t say £4 does it? I said yes that’s the price now. Needless to say we didn’t buy Heinz also stopped buying Heinz Ketchup at £4 a bottle, we go through a bottle a week, the Aldi 65p regular version is the only one we have found nearly identical to it. I was expecting complaints from DS’ but no, they like it, phew!

What's the value of a life, really?

When you think of the multiple meals you can make with a whole chicken it's really not bad value at ~£6.

Anything less seems ridiculously low TBH.

It’s shocking how cheaply massed produced chicken can be bought.

I pay £19 for a 2kg free range and slow grown bird. We don't eat chicken often so it is worth it.

I have found in my area Asda is the worst to shop in now for their prices. It's much cheaper in Sainsbury's and Tesco with the clubcard.

I think the price of meat should be increased and we should work towards having no mass production.

My dad is a sheep farmer and I was brought up in a wider farming family. Ironically we never ate a huge amount of meat and was brought up knowing how to make meat go a long way. These days I probably eat meat about twice a week at most (we do eat lot of fish though)

Mainly because I know exactly what it costs to raise animals for meat and I will not touch the cheaper stuff. I would rather go without.

There are lots of good chicken alternatives out there.

Seagull, squirrel, rat. See what you can find by the road.

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I'm with you.

Agreed that it's not much for the life of an animal - and I'm an avid meat eater. The cost that goes into raising them, even when done cheaply by the farmer, means the return is a pittance. And we all know that raising them cheaply means low welfare.

So two issues there - low welfare standards and low earn for the farmer. How they cover their costs I've zero idea. This needs to improve.

Having said this, I think the point of this thread is in relation to the cost of living, and how current wages are not matching the cost of living for many people, so that they will think nearly £7.00 is expensive. That is also, a very sad thing that needs to change.

Anyone that complains about a chicken costing less than, minimum, £10 per bird, really should see the inside of a chicken farm or processing plant.

As an aside, finally saw the results of the egg crisis the other day. Asda completely cleared out - except for 30 boxes of eggs from caged hens.

We eat a lot of eggs. But am I fuck supporting that, and my partner is on the same page. So without eggs we will go.

I have wanted to rescue ex battery hens for a while now. I know they aren't great egg producers, but still may produce a low amount. Perhaps this year is the time to do this, for us. Ethical standards, even for some of the better 'sources' are just not good enough.

I paid £4.50 in lidl yesterday for a chicken

I had this recently @user1471453601 I asked the cost somewhere else and when he said £11 I actually went 'fuck' out loud I was so shocked. I got the battery on ebay for 99p and fitted it myself.

I went in Iceland Overseas yesterday and a 4 pack of Heinz tomato soup was €6 ffs. €1.89 each. Baxters were €2.50 each.

I completely agree. It’s sort of alarming how cheap a life is. the amount of chickens that must be produced for our food industry is obscene really, all the chicken shops, all the sandwiches, all the burger places.

Yep. How disgustingly low do you expect intensive farming to go so you can eat excessive amounts of meat for pennies?

we spend so much less as a percentage on food now