to find hte British obsessive about supermarkets

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and dont start all the " oh in france htey all skip along with baskets to the boulangerie crap"

but i mean its ONLY a supermarket

dont like it? dont go there? oyu dont need to have the name of it branded on your arms

I shop in Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Co-op and Lidl as they are all in my town. Occasionally, if I'm in the nearest market town to us, I'll use ASDA. I always bring my big bag of bags for life, and it is a really mixed bag of bags. People must judge me!

Well, I am seriously impressed by your £10 chicken and the lengths that it stretched to - even though it seems on par with the normal supermarket ones.

Are you sure it wasn't actually a turkey cleverly disguised by your butcher?

BadGardener, I liked your story!

Nearest Waitrose is about 20 miles from here.

We mostly use Iceland, Co-op, Morrisons and Lidl. Cos we is ruff, innit.

But M&S for its cheap tonic water. And nice biscuits.

Honestly, it was a MASSIVE chicken

The butcher is a mate of DP's, so maybe he was feeling a bit generous that day, who knows...

But I can tell the difference between them. In the bones, mainly... they are so thick

I shop anywhere me ..no supermarket snobbery in this house

our chicken has done 1 roast dinner, 1 pie that lasted 2 meals, one soup and will do a pasta dish It was a posh farm one but if it was a rubber chicken I reckon I could make it stretch even further.

I always find supermarkets in other countries really dark and dingy, and really lacking in variety.

I used to live abroad and pined after Sainsburys. Now I am an Ocado customer, I would have a lot more to pine after.

Really, if you go to a hypermarket in Calais, you find that the food is often just rows and rows of tins. It puts you firmly back in the 1970s. In the USA, it is all boxed packages. I think UK supermarkets offer a happy medium of freshness and convenience.

Now I feel really let down by our own chicken: we had it roast last night (fed 3 adults & a few mouthfuls for DS who had already had his dinner). Leftovers made lunch for DS today, & a small supper for DP this evening. And that's it!! No stock, no soup, no pie, no risotto, no curry, no nothing (& it was a semi-posh waitrose one, so there).

Is it the chicken, or is it me?

What did you do with the carcass once you'd got all the worthwhile bits of meat off it Maria?
I always make stock from the carcass but I think tbh it is a bit like nail soup in the story I linked - once you've added up all the other ingredients in the stock and then in the risotto/soup it doesn't really count as getting a meal out of it.

It´s funny reading this thread. Try moving away from the UK, that will really make you appreciate the supermarkets.

I agree with MmeBlueberry. (I´m pining now)

Supermarkets in Spain are improving but there´s still no where near the variety and it´s just not a pleasant shopping experience, no small talk from lovely check-out personnel (like you get back home) and you risk being told off by the miseries for not leaving via the official exit - grr. Oh and they´re usually not that clean and a bit wiffy too

Give me a UK supermarket any day of the week and I ain´t fussed which one

BadGardener: I threw away the carcass . Gulp.