Sunday Roast Lunch for £4 @ Morrisons(Not The Cafe)

sluggy1967

I love roast chicken but am on an incredibly tight budget, however I would rather go without than have battery-reared, so I only have it every so often instead! As Blondieleopard says "None of us will starve for want of a cheap tortured deformed chicken....."

Has anyone ever seen Free range food on special offer in supermarkets? Why don't they do it?

DIRTYBLONDE

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Tesco are now selling fresh chickens at just £1-99, i got 2 today.

patsy13

[hi rev nev

your hen is lovely keep up the good work:T :T :T

andyroberts1967

DIRTYBLONDE wrote: »

:T
Tesco are now selling fresh chickens at just £1-99, i got 2 today.

Are they the Freedom chickens or the tortured ones?

RichyRich

andyroberts1967 wrote: »

Are they the Freedom chickens or the tortured ones?

Tortured but delicious

Doc_Bones

Love your chickens Revnev. Unfortunately,we can't have any where we live and the waiting list for an allotment is endless;more power to your arm though i say.
We get RSPCA Freedom Food chicken from Sainsburys, but i've also seen a good range of it in Somerfield.
Actually, got some in Sainsburys today. £1.89 for a pack containing 3 chubby thighs and 3 drumsticks. Bog standard chicken was £1.49 for the same amount. I boned them, stuffed them with black pudding and then wrapped them in bacon, roasted in oven for 30 mins - Damn tasty with tatties and veggies.
They had reasonable sized whole chickens in the same range for £3.89 which i know is not exactly £1.99 but Sainsburys ordinary bog standard bird was £2.99 for around the same weight so actually 90p difference on a whole bird but still great value for money if you use every bit of it, AND it's far tastier than the bog standard stuff which we find tasteless.
I accept it's not an option for everyone but like sluggy said, perhaps it's better to have ethical chicken once a week as opposed to tortured 'frankenstein' chicken every night.

andyroberts1967

Doc_Bones wrote: »

Love your chickens Revnev. Unfortunately,we can't have any where we live and the waiting list for an allotment is endless;more power to your arm though i say.
We get RSPCA Freedom Food chicken from Sainsburys, but i've also seen a good range of it in Somerfield.
Actually, got some in Sainsburys today. £1.89 for a pack containing 3 chubby thighs and 3 drumsticks. Bog standard chicken was £1.49 for the same amount. I boned them, stuffed them with black pudding and then wrapped them in bacon, roasted in oven for 30 mins - Damn tasty with tatties and veggies.
They had reasonable sized whole chickens in the same range for £3.89 which i know is not exactly £1.99 but Sainsburys ordinary bog standard bird was £2.99 for around the same weight so actually 90p difference on a whole bird but still great value for money if you use every bit of it, AND it's far tastier than the bog standard stuff which we find tasteless.
I accept it's not an option for everyone but like sluggy said, perhaps it's better to have ethical chicken once a week as opposed to tortured 'frankenstein' chicken every night.

ooh sounds like a nice dish - let's hope the pig was as well treated as the chicken LOL, I might try that recipe at the weekend.

mellymeep

I got this deal yesterday! Total bargain, and the dinner was awesome! it fed 4 hungry students very well

ksh123

sluggy1967 wrote: »

I love roast chicken but am on an incredibly tight budget, however I would rather go without than have battery-reared, so I only have it every so often instead! As Blondieleopard says "None of us will starve for want of a cheap tortured deformed chicken....."

Has anyone ever seen Free range food on special offer in supermarkets? Why don't they do it?

No never :mad: the best I've seen is some late date stuff withabout 50/70p off original price. Hardly a great saving...
( BTW Has anyone ever noticed that when Morrisons do "whoopsies" their prices are still really expensive? They only ever take about 40p off - even when the bread etc. is really bashed about - tightwads!)

ROOSTER: thanks, I will check out your suggestions.

On a recent Jamie Oliver ad he said" the great thing is that all the chicken at Sainsburys is now RSPCA approved". However, there is nothing on the packaging to say so. So I asked at customer service. She said "if its not on the packaging then its not RSPCA approved" !!
I was stunned at how disinterested she was about the 2 conflicting messages.