M & S Chickens - half price

Savvybunny2009

I'm only saying what the documentary showed, might be worth shopping around as the Oakham chicken is the same one they sell in all the supermarkets under their own brand packaging. You may well be able to get the same chicken at a better deal elsewhere.

Might worth checking out the documentary on iplayer, I think it was 'food what goes in your basket' or somehing similar. It was aired in the last month or so.

zoold

Whirly wrote: »

I went into my local on Friday afternoon after seeing the signs. No chickens. I was told by a SA that if I want one, I should get there early because they fly off the shelves. Dunno if that's just for my local though.

Ha Ha, that made me giggle

jellyhead

Savvybunny2009 wrote: »

I'm only saying what the documentary showed, might be worth shopping around as the Oakham chicken is the same one they sell in all the supermarkets under their own brand packaging. You may well be able to get the same chicken at a better deal elsewhere.

Might worth checking out the documentary on iplayer, I think it was 'food what goes in your basket' or somehing similar. It was aired in the last month or so.

It was shown on channel 4 in the last month or so.

Oakham chickens don't come from Oakham, no, but they are higher welfare, slower growing birds. There are restrictions on how many birds to a square metre, what they are fed, if they are given drugs etc. and while not free range they are reared better than than cheap chickens.

I don't remember exactly what they said on the programme about which other supermarkets might be selling the birds, but they are most definitely NOT the same as the cheap birds. They might be the same as the co-op chickens, not sure.

jemb

Jellyhead is right, I watched that too, but the birds aren't from Oakham it's a trademarked name for the birds to sound posher. They're the same as higher quality birds in Sainsburys, Tesco finest etc. But they are a better class of bird.
Halifax just had a big sign saying " sorry you missed us" ie from the birds, and apparently they only had that one shelf full for the promo. Did however get some chocs buy one get one free so didn't come out empty handed!

victory

Oos :d...............................................................................

richardw

Savvybunny2009 wrote: »

I'm only saying what the documentary showed

You said they were the same as the cheap ones, did the documentary say that?

aplaceinthesun

http://plana.marksandspencer.com/we-are-doing/sustainable-raw-materials/stories/18 Link to info about the chickens. HTH !

eskimono

Just eaten mine...........delicious.............didn't taste like a cheap old bird!

Falleniceangel

I'm going to get my mum on this, she works at M&S and can hopefully bag me a couple ^_^

Want2BMoneySavvy

Picked up my two today, got two medium chickens should be £11, got them for £5.50. Very pleased.