Tesco Market Value Chickens £1.99

balancesummer

YOu have just reminded me a chicken i bought from Tesco while ago. found a lump inside, i have contact the tesco, they said they will invest it , but never get back to me, i really need to chase it again,
Thanks

storminbalder

Tesco! Overpriced rubbish in my opinion. Too many bad experiences for me. Was forced to shop there once as they owned both the local supermarkets. But then again I haven't shopped there for years now - not since a Sainsurys opened.

windra

I'm amazed at how cheap those are, I buy tesco value chicken breasts and its £4 for 3 breasts...but i can get 2 whole chickens for the same price.

valk_scot

I think the recent M&S offer was a better one. For £10 you could get a £9.00+ M&S Oakham chicken, a bottle of wine, a chocolatey fudge pud that would easily serve four and veg. Yes I do realise that not everyone would have the £10 to spend in the first place but the chicken I bought as part of this deal on Saturday did us a roast dinner for 4 on Sunday, stir-fry on Monday, chicken and sweetcorn sandwiches on Tuesday and a large pot of soup. The cats got a couple of bowls of scraps too. It was a humungous chicken and very tasty and firm fleshed, plus it's an M&S chicken, no?

Also, looking at it from the cruelty angle, I know the Oakham chickens in this offer are not the free range ones but they do seem to be kept in better conditions than the unfortunates that are reared as cheaply as possible, if you look at the M&S website. Every little helps!

Miroslav

If that's all people can afford, then that is up to the individual.

I wouldn't use the 'all we could afford' excuse though, as if it was all I could afford, I would eat something different and skip chicken until I could afford it. Even a fussy sod like me could find something else to eat

We don't really know what is genuinely free range and what isn't, but sometimes if a price is remarkably low, i'd say it was pretty obvious.

looby-loo_2

Worth the extra IMO

wonderbetty

My mum's church bought these chickens and cooked them up into their soup kitchen for the homeless. Much better nutritionally than what can usually be bought on their budget!

We eat a mixture of food in our house. We are not rich and don't fill up on many biscuits/crisps. When we cut back, anything not meal related is the first to go. I buy free range eggs from our lacal farm, have a veg box delivered weekly and always aim for the 5 a day and one hot family homemade meal. I find this much cheaper than weekly supermarket shopping.
We do not always achieve this of course as that would be weird and a bit 'Stepford Wives'. I do not have a problem once in a while buying a cheeper chicken when we use all of it. Sometimes it's an M&S chicken, sometimes it's a bargain one for pies/curry etc.

Whether homeless or not I think it is important to concerntrate on good healthy eating, not being wasteful with what we do have. We need to respect our food sources and be educated in food production so we can make choices for ourselves.
Surely if we were all rich enough in the firstplace the cheep chicken would never be produced? I think the problem of animal welfare comes from the supermarket as they could reduce profits and increase happy chicken production without passing the cost to us. Then we'd buy more?

Sorry for dribbling on... it's getting late!

andrione1

i used to eat chickens all the time but since living with birds, i have realized that their social system and emotional/thoughts states are the same as ours. so i had to stop eating them.
chickens are intelligent creatures.
eating chicken is a personal choice but cruelty and the inhumane treatment of them is abhorrent and Tesco is disgusting for selling them so cheap because it keeps the whole thing going.

wonderbetty

By the way, I like the idea of cooking pasta in the stock... I feel another good family meal to add to our regualrs! Thanks for that!

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