£2 chickens

£2 chucks

  • Yes please!!!

    Votes: 20 41.7%

  • urrggghh, no thanks!

    Votes: 28 58.3%
  • Total voters
    48
  • Poll closed .
Re: £2 chickens

I think its great to afford to have morals.

I also think that it would be great for every person alive to have the choice of buying a better cut of meat, rather than a cheaper alternative to feed their families.

Unfortunately, life is not like that, and the majority are just grateful to be able to put a meal on the table as oppose to worrying whether the chicken has had a nice life, sat watching a plasma all day whilst eating the 'caviar' of the chicken world.

At the end of the day, its not had a nice life, cos its sat on a dining table being eaten!

And to suggest that its only educated people that are concerned where the food comes from, is, to put it nicely, a load of twaddle.

I think its ironic that we can give more of a damn about the life an animal that is bred to be killed may have had, rather than the people that are eating them. Or is it just me that has, in the past, had to make every penny count to make sure everyone is my household is fed, watered, warm and so on?

Incidentally, I agree the treatment of battery hens is diabolical, and some farming methods are less than to be desired, but I for one, would prefer to lose some morals rather than starve
 
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No, onlyme, you are not alone. I made this observation way back when this post was first started.
Some folk need to get a grip and live in the real world, the world where a lot of people have limited means to feed families, the world where you have to make a choice to be warm or to eat.......and I am not talking third world here......I am talking the UK.
 
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just a question....does anyone on here eat smart price chicken??,...I do! I get the fillets and just had some for my tea, and would just like to point out they tasted bloody good:D
 
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I wonder how many people who bleat about the price of chicken and its affordability as a justification for buying cheap birds, actually make the utmost use of the chicken?

Many people buy cheap chicken because they are on a tight budget, then only use the breast and the legs. The rest is thrown away, which is a complete waste of money in itself. There is a lot of meat on the underside of the bird, even more so on a properly reared chicken. The carcass can be used to make stocks, soups and risotto, but how many people do that?

I buy free range chickens and I'd never go back to eating that other stuff. I want food that has been grown/reared ethically and correctly, not some chemically enhanced rubbish that has been created purely for profit. To me, a chicken's life is worth more than £2-50 and if I can't afford it, then I'll do without.
 
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I am not a huge fan of chicken, but when I do buy it I use the carcass for the things you have said......if I only wanted breast or legs then that is what I would buy.....I wouldn't buy the whole chicken.
 
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shillelagh said:
How do you know that the chicken you have bought from Asda/Tesco/elsewhere has wee and poo burns on its legs? By the time you buy it from there its been plucked cleaned etc or you are buying breast fillets or legs on their own.
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I don't buy chicken from Asda, I only buy it from the local butcher.

If you do buy battery chickens from the supermarket you can see the red poo burns on the flesh of the legs.
 
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in reply to TM, the "Boss" uses every scorrack, the frame makes chicken broth. but think its more of an "age" thing, suspect most young uns dont.;)
 
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Lilly said:
I don't buy chicken from Asda, I only buy it from the local butcher.

If you do buy battery chickens from the supermarket you can see the red poo burns on the flesh of the legs.
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I am glad somebody mentioned asda, the meat at asda has slowly gone downhill, either that, or the meat at accrington isn't as good as the meat at rawtenstall, with minced beef for example, I always preferred the lean minced steak to the minced beef (big taste difference), but the lean minced steak is now no better than the normal mince used to be, off to the scotch beef shop again!
 
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I rarely buy just chicken breast fillets. I buy a whole bird then butcher it myself. The legs and wings get roasted for picking on and if there is any meat left on the carcass it gets used to either make soup or I cut it off and cook it for the cat.

I also tend to buy boneless thigh meat from the chicken stall on Bburn market for use in curries etc as it has more flavour than breast meat but is just as tender when cooked properly. Its a bit like those people making beef curries with Rump steak, its false economy. You want a good tasty cut like shin or shoulder for that. Most of the problem is that people now don't realise what cuts of meat should be used for what.
 
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i try to buy the free range chickens... although i do buy the ready cooked ones from asda.

but i do prefer the free range that you cook your self.
 
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I like many who buy and cook a full bird always use every bit of it .
once done i boil for the stock then strip the carcus for the dog .
my freezer is full of chicken stock .
Like many i have been a single mum of four and have had to make ends meet so have been thankful for the more affordable birds and other meats for that matter . It beats starving anyday.
 
Re: £2 chickens

Well, the £2.00 chicken is no more, I went to ASDA today and bought the worlds tiniest chicken ever, in all decency they should have waited until it was completely out of the shell before cooking it, this one cost £3.00.
I didn't enquire about the cost of a normal sized one, I bet this poor soul was brought up under similar conditions to those back in 2008 nothing has changed except the price.:D
 
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Less said:
Well, the £2.00 chicken is no more, I went to ASDA today and bought the worlds tiniest chicken ever, in all decency they should have waited until it was completely out of the shell before cooking it, this one cost £3.00.
I didn't enquire about the cost of a normal sized one, I bet this poor soul was brought up under similar conditions to those back in 2008 nothing has changed except the price.:D
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Might have been on a slimline diet and no steriods. They say big things come in small packages but cant explain this. Getting less for more sounds like the sort of tricks high fashion use. Cant imagine Asda chicken being high fashion though unless I have missed something.:confused:
 
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Food price inflation is a global phenomenon.
FT.com / In depth / Rising cost of food

Chickens cost more when the price of the grain they are fed goes up.
We can expect a price rise in may foodstuffs now that Russia has stopped grain exports. (Fires in Russia - drought in N America)
When scarcity strikes, prices rise.

We will have to bear this at a time when wage increases are frozen.
If you haven't already stocked as much non perishable food as you can afford and store, you may well have to resort to browsing for those 'wartime rationing recipes'
 
Re: £2 chickens

MargaretR said:
Food price inflation is a global phenomenon.
FT.com / In depth / Rising cost of food

Chickens cost more when the price of the grain they are fed goes up.
We can expect a price rise in may foodstuffs now that Russia has stopped grain exports. (Fires in Russia - drought in N America)
When scarcity strikes, prices rise.

We will have to bear this at a time when wage increases are frozen.
If you haven't already stocked as much non perishable food as you can afford and store, you may well have to resort to browsing for those 'wartime rationing recipes'
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Whoa, whoa & thrice whoa, the harbinger of DOOM has spoken.
:D
 
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