free range chicken, where to buy cheapest

blushingbride_3

hi there

i looke odn my supermarket and its £9.55 for free range chicken approx 2.4kg will this be cheaper in the butchers?

Barneysmom

It sounds crazy but we got one for 3 quid from ours the other week. He must've had a glut.......:cool:

edit: Oops mine was about 2kg.

Xaviera

Barneysmom wrote: »

It sounds crazy but we got one for 3 quid from ours the other week. He must've had a glut.......:cool:

edit: Oops mine was about 2kg.

from your WHAT?

blushingbride_3

£3 was it really free range? was it nice?

Barneysmom

Xaviera wrote: »

from your WHAT?

From our butchers :cool:

It was nice, it was lovely just enough for two meals each for us both and a couple of sarnies for work.

thriftlady_2

My butcher charges about the same if not a bit more, but his prices are a little high -great quality though and all local. I think you have accept that free range chicken is expensive. We eat it about once a fortnight.

otterspasm

I bought two free-range chickens from Lidl last week for £3 each. It is the first time I've bought meat from Lidl as I had previously assumed it would be rubbish and would have had a horrible life. However as they were free range I thought I'd give them a try and they were lovely :-)

Not very big mind...1.4kgs.

numberwang

otterspasm wrote: »

I bought two free-range chickens from Lidl last week for £3 each. It is the first time I've bought meat from Lidl as I had previously assumed it would be rubbish and would have had a horrible life. However as they were free range I thought I'd give them a try and they were lovely :-)

Not very big mind...1.4kgs.

We tried a Lidl one not long ago, small like you said - thought it was a bit greasy, alot of fat under the skin, but otherwise ok. It kind of had the texture of Guinea Fowl...

p1kef1sh

Lidl seem to be consistently £1 or so cheaper than other supermarket free range chicken. I have only seen whole birds, not legs, thighs etc. We often buy them and they are fine.

freebiequennie

Aldi do free range chickens and are around £5 for a 1.5kg bird.

We tend to get our free range chickens from abel and cole if you look on grabbit board at the mo theres an offer on with abel and cole.

Gigervamp

Supermarket free range chickens are usually pretty tiny. We get ours from our butcher. Usually get something like a 2.5kilo bird for around £7-£8.