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Organic chicken

bhz-2
bhz-2 Posts: 216 Forumite
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What's the best place to buy organic chicken pls?
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  • leo~saphira
    leo~saphira Posts: 324 Forumite
    bhz-2 wrote: »
    What's the best place to buy organic chicken pls?

    Where I am either Morrison, Tesco or Asda unless you have birds yourselve then a home organic chicken would be best (for that inner greeness feeling :D)

    Asda (via Mysupermarket) is showing up as £5.48 / Kg :)

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  • hermum
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    My Mum paid £8 for an organic chicken from asda a few weeks ago & it was inedible. She doesn't like complaing & knows that I would so she didn't tell me until it was too late. It was tough & dry. As she's been cooking for over 50 years it won't have been the way she cooked it.
    I certainly wouldn't buy one from asda now.
  • tesuhoha
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    I only ever buy organic chicken/free range because the other sort are always pumped full of water and you get a huge mess in the roasting tin. I got a small one from Asda recently for £5.80 and we had roast chicken and salad and then chicken soup for two days. It was all nice and I would rather pay more for a smaller one although it worked out quite economical in the long one.
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  • redlooney
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    I buy Morrisons large chickens for £5, put some quarters of lemon, a chopped onion and a few cloves of garlic in it - chuck it in the oven and it smells and tastes fantastic, with no mess or gunge in the bottom of the roasting tray (except the usual bit of fat which goes in the gravy) - why someone would pay over the odds for something labelled "organic" or similar is beyond me - do they come with a print-out from www.mychickensancestry.com or similar ;) nooooooooo
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  • sarah1972
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    edited 8 May 2010 at 6:51AM
    bhz-2 wrote: »
    What's the best place to buy organic chicken pls?

    definitely not a supermarket, go to your local butcher and get a lovely fresh one that will taste so much better ;)

    My local butcher charges £7.95 a kg
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  • freebiequennie
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    we always get ours from www.abelandcole.co.uk
  • leo~saphira
    leo~saphira Posts: 324 Forumite
    sarah1972 wrote: »
    definitely not a supermarket, go to your local butcher and get a lovely fresh one that will taste so much better ;)

    My local butcher charges £7.95 a kg

    Question is, can you buy a Organic Bird at the butcher (I can't for the live find one near me at all within a 20mile radius) that is "truely" a organic bird and not a broiler bird upmarketed as a organic one to rake in £££
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  • elfen
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    Another is farm shops with a butcher's attached....the farm supplies the meat and it's usually organic
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  • jenniewb
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    M&S, their free range chicken always has her partner commenting on it- he otherwise rarely looks up from the computer screen so has got to be worth a try!
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